TJ Associates


October 2011

In This Issue
Client Testimonial
Book of the Month
Feature Article: Optimizing Potential
Understanding the Cost of a C Team
What Are the People You Want to Hire Looking For?

Client Testimonial:

 

"Diane, I bet you didn't expect or plan for the direction this workshop went! I just wanted to let you know that we appreciate your flexibility to roll with what the group needed to accomplish, in spite of the agenda. We got to where we needed to go - which is a lot more important than getting to where we planned to go." Marketing Director, September 2011

Book of the Month

 
 

Peter and Harvey present a fresh and powerful new science-based paradigm for personal, leadership, and organizational development. Offering readers an opportunity to unleash greater potential, they answer "The Central Question",

 

"What choice can I make and action can I take,
 in this moment, to create the greatest net value?"

 

Enjoy this read for a fresh look at your natural strengths as well as the strengths of those within your organization.

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Greetings!

This is Talent Journey's October 2011 Leadership Briefing! As you might have noted, we took two months off (August and September). We want to share some fun news with you. During the middle of the summer, Diane put the finishing touches on her first book, which she'd been working on for about a year. She sent her final draft to the publisher at the end of the summer and they are sculpting it (they call it editing) right now. The book is expected to come out in print at the beginning of 2012! We'll keep you posted. Thank you for your patience over the summer. We'll be resuming your monthly leadership tips going forward. Remember, at any time, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter by clicking the link at the bottom of each newsletter. We're so glad that you've remained a subscriber. We enjoy sending these leadership briefings and relish your occassional notes and well-wishes back. On we go.... 

Feature Article: Optimizing Potential Diane Brown   

When you're looking to optimize the potential of your organization, three important perspectives need to be taken into account.  In order to maximize success, Systems, Operational Excellence and Relationship Ability all need to be considered and valued.  

 

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Understanding the Cost of a CTeam

To comprehend the cost of a C team, it is important to understand what a C team is. C team members are unhappy in their position within an organization, are unfulfilled and, more often than not, disengaged. A team member exhibiting these characteristics has a negative effect on team morale and motivation, resulting in poor work performance.

 

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What Are the People You Want to Hire Looking For?

 

Talented job candidates understand that they are the glue that holds contemporary companies together. Today, they hold much more leverage than they did twenty years ago. Therefore, it helps for employers to know what the best, most talented individuals seek in a potential place of employment. 

 

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Practical Applications

Talent Journey utilizes a time-tested and highly validated on-line instrument to assess personality, motivational drivers and talents/skills.  We make it easy for you to match the right person to your unique job, team and organizational culture.  Our assessments meet all the EEOC validation criteria, per study conducted in 2010. 

 

A study by Highhouse (printed in "Industrial and Organizational Psychology 1, (2008), proved that assessments signficantly improve the predictability of hiring high performance -- 16 to 25 times over that of not utilizing an assessment.  The best assessments measure talents/abilities, in addition to the standard personality/motivational elements. 

 

Talent Journey utilizes assessments that measure all the important components mentioned in the Highhouse study and are EEOC validated. 

 

For more information contact The Talent Journey 

 

What does TALENT JOURNEY do? 

Our Expertise:

 

·     Talent Assessments

·     Performance Development

·     Leadership Development

·     Team Building 

·     Executive Coaching  

 

We help your company select, align, and develop the potential of your people to achieve your unique mission and strategies. Our proven, customized and measurable approach improves individual, team and organizational performance for long-term sustainable business results.

Thank you for supporting our business!

We are committed to providing you with insightful and relevant leadership information.

 

We aspire to keep you thinking on the leadership edge, especially about how to optimize and leverage the talent within your organization. Too often talent underperforms because, as leaders, we don't provide enough "maintanence." Just like machines falter without maintanence, so do people.

 

Great leaders know how to inspire, equip and develop their talent from the time of hire all the way to the day of retire. At Talent Journey, we guide your adventure and help you navigate the sea of potential. Thank you for the opportunity to partner with you on your journey.

  

Referrals are greatly appreciated.

 

Sincerely,

Diane Brown
Talent Journey Founder
760-471-2703 or By Email