Professional Development
Millennials Thriving: The Importance of Self Awareness in Personal Development
2014 has been a great leap of personal development for me. I graduated college with two degrees, have been to multiple countries, moved to New York City and started my full time position with Emergenetics International. We haven’t even hit the Holidays yet! In looking back on the past nine months, I have a feeling…
Read MoreThe Millennial Generation: How to Capitalize on a Third of Your Workforce
The millennial generation are entering the workforce in droves. According to Forbes, Millennials will make up 46% of the workforce by 2020. Even now the millennial generation accounts for over 33% of the workforce. Companies can no longer afford to think of this group as interns and individual contributors. And soon, companies will be dealing…
Read MoreGaining Self Awareness and Personal Strategies
Once upon a long ago I was sitting in a well-known coffee shop here in Singapore with two folks I’d only just met – Deborah Peterson and Dave Lim. Conversation got around to colours and profiling and within minutes I was saying, “I’d love to have my Profile done. That Emergenetics sounds fantastic! Can one…
Read MoreEmployee Motivation From The Inside Out
In the human capital development space, employee motivation is a topic we hear time and time again. It’s usually in the form of a question— “What’s the best form of employee motivation?” I was reading a blog from Harvard Business Review and found it fascinating! It was titled “Why You Lead Determines How Well You…
Read MoreAn Emergenetics Approach to Boost Creativity
I once chanced upon a comment by a friend to another, “Oh you’re a right brainer, you must be a creative person!” Well, that is a myth. Creativity does not rest on one side of the brain. Creativity is about being open to chances and synthesizing ideas. It requires lots of cognitive processes. So how…
Read MoreManaging Stress
There’s a common phrase, nothing is more certain than death and taxes! Yesterday, April 15th, was tax day here in the US- a day that many of us find stressful. In most cases, tax season takes a more obvious toll on the human psyche than almost anything we confront on a yearly basis. The mere…
Read MoreEstrategias de administración de dinero
With tax day around the corner- it’s Tuesday, April 15th in case you’re unaware– we were curious about how Emergenetics translates to into money management strategies. Emergenetics Associate Heather Wherry, Professional Development Lead at Lincoln Financial Group, explores how each Emergenetics Attribute might approach money management. I was always amazed at how my dad could…
Read MoreAn Emergenetics Approach to Performance Reviews
This time of year, many of you are performing the annual ritual of performance reviews. For me, I choose to lead by being clear, objective, and fair, and this is especially true when providing performance reviews. Rather than dreading this experience, I view it as an opportunity to develop mutual understanding and better my communication…
Read MoreHow to Maximize Your Talent Development Program
Talent development and management systems address the challenge of putting people on a pipeline that maximizes their contribution to the organization. Some tools address individual elements of the employee life cycle, others address the whole system. Either way, the notion of sustainability is essential to the overall use of any one tool, as Diane Lujan,…
Read MoreMaximize Your Leadership Potential
Leading an organization or a department consists of many moving pieces. You are simultaneously responsible for delivering results, accounting for the bottom line, and setting a vision well into the future, all the while being expected to improve team performance. It’s a daunting task. And yet many executives and senior leaders feel that it is…
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