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One critical element in my people management over the years has been to develop an understanding of peoples behaviour preferences, and utilising DISC as a means to appreciate these.
As explained earlier DISC is a well regarded measure of how an individual prefers to act either in work or home settings. Its not a personality test, but a self assessment of your behaviour preferences.… Read more
I admire much of what Google does, and have interacted positively with the intelligent bright engineers they attract.
Their size and engineering approach- everything empirically proven – has created a wealth of data. And now some of their HR data has surfaced. Highlighted in an HBR article, Google have attempted to prove empirically the value of a good manager. In a data driven way comparing the data driven performance of great and poor managers (as assessed on their internal assessment- discussed below) Google was able to show a significant (Greater than 99% confidence) the significant benefit of having good managers.… Read more