Hey, haven’t we discussed this before? This is a Vitru lookback article, where we build off learnings from years and trends past. Sometimes we’ll discover that our workplace trends were right on the money; other times we may see that our musings around talent management and company culture predictions were a little off. Either way…
One would think with the number of Slack App downloads, every company in the world has adopted a new-gen management style. Open, collaborative and teamwork oriented organizations are en-trend but there is still a gap between the new worker generation we call Millennial and old school management techniques where they work. A 2015 Gallup study found that about 50% of the 7,200 adults surveyed left a job “to get away…
Playing a team sport means not being involved in every big play. You trust your teammates to do their job when it’s their turn. Giving up a part of the control of a situation, because no single person can do it all themselves, is how a communal effort gets accomplished. A good team doesn’t hope for internal trust, it’s built on it. Build trust…
Time and money: two things of which every small-business owner needs more. Entrepreneurs wear so many hats, that there is very often not enough hours in the day to accomplish all that is necessary to keep a company up and running. When it is time to finally share the dream (and burden) with employees, business…
Why oh why do so many organizations look externally for talent before taking a look at their existing talent? For the most part the answer lies in a sad reality—too many organizations fail to take inventory and assess their current talent, nor does the average organization have a system to do so. If an organization…
Members only organizations are those with exclusionary hiring practices. They end up looking and feeling like a clone factory or old school country club. These practices not only stifle innovation, they create a feeling of “other” that people are getting pretty fed up with. Academic, writer and entrepreneur, Vivek Wadhwa (@Wadhwa) has been causing quite a stir…
Editor’s Note: Vitru puts knowledge into the hands of people who need it: managers, teams, employees. Using psychometric assessment testing, each personality is broken down and segmented into a microcosm of work values and traits. Just as each employee has a unique persona, each work value embodies its own narrative. This multi-part blog series sets…
The goal in business isn’t ever to stagnate, or keep hitting the same numbers. Barring another major economic recession, every organization has the united goal of growing and being successful. Scaling is really a business must, and according to Barry Schuler (@BSchuler), who is credited with being one of the pioneers of the modern Internet…
60% of workers are now asked to take workplace assessments in today’s modern workforce. This means more managers than ever have insight on their employees, how to work effectively within a team’s innate culture and what to expect when a new employee walks into the office on Monday. All of these are useful when we’re talking about the “fun”…
How you’re sabotaging team alignment, let us count the ways. We get it, no manager or leader intentionally sets out to destroy the alignment of the teams that they’ve built, but it’s what we don’t know that can hurt us. You may not realize these ultra-common ways that leaders are tearing down exactly the thing they’ve worked…