The Tilted Edge

How do you help a struggling employee improve their performance and keep them from being a liability in your company? Here are some tips to help you.

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It is crucial for team leaders to understand the proper procedure for integrating personality tests.  Failing to do so can result in team dysfunction and even legal woes. When you get the results of the personality tests taken by your team members, be sure to remember that personality can be altered and developed to be more intentionally agile.

Learning and development (L&D) are crucial elements for business success. Organizations that are unwilling or unable to adapt to changing contexts seldom succeed in the long term.  In terms of the L&D by an organization’s workers, HR often engages in performing personality assessments of employees and teams.  Some commonly used personality assessments on the market are: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), DiSC, Predictive Index, Insights Discovery, and Clifton Strengths.

By granting workers autonomy, they are empowered to use their intuition, interests, and imagination to create their own unique approach to generativity.  In the modern business world, coworkers all have to be willing to share their unique insights if the best business outcomes are going to be realized.

In the absence of feedback, self-reflection can help us identify behaviors or habits that we engage in that can be unpleasant to others.  Once we have identified any such behaviors, we can work to eliminate them in the interest of the greater good.  When this occurs, we are pursuing a generative mindset.

Highly competitive businesses are the ones that continuously evolve with the needs of their customers and the inevitable changes in people, behaviors, and markets. In order to remain competitive, businesses have long sought a recipe for innovation. Along the way, the term generativity has emerged in various forms to describe a sustained atmosphere of new ideas and innovation. These new ideas and innovations can be fostered through a combination of increased autonomy and transparency in business.

When someone is generative, they are wholly engaged in their work and functioning in a state of flow while helping others.  Our creative potential is heightened in a state like this because we are focused on the task at hand and are not attending to inner distractions based on fear about the past or future. 

One term used to describe mental and emotional exhaustion is introvert burnout, and it occurs when we have engaged in more social interactions than we have bandwidth. Burnout symptoms include exhaustion, cynicism, and professional efficacy problems.  In this context, cynicism refers to feelings of detachment from the tasks completed professionally.  Deficiencies in professional efficacy mean that an individual’s productivity begins to suffer.