Employee expectations have fundamentally shifted during the pandemic. As a result, organizations can expect large talent shifts to occur in the next year. How can you leverage a people-centered culture to reduce employee stress and limit turnover in your organization?

Closing the Virtual Teamwork Skills Gap, shares insights into the challenges teams have faced in the transition to the virtual workplace, based on Wiley’s latest research, as well as strategies to help teams succeed.

Conflict is an uncomfortable, yet unavoidable part of every workplace. But we don’t always realize the level of harm caused by the toxic behaviors that come along with it. Unproductive conflict is a measurable drag on productivity, performance, and the bottom line. Yet conflict—if done right—is integral to success. Today's struggle leads to tomorrow's breakthrough. Under the Hood exposes the hidden connection between our thoughts, emotions, and actions, and reveals the secret engine that drives toxic workplace behaviors.

This eBook reveals three critical components to addressing The Virtual Culture Dilemma along with actionable strategies to shape an engaged, collaborative, and adaptive culture—one that drives results while simultaneously fostering those daily human connections that embrace everyone’s unique strengths and one-of-a-kind contributions.

About Everything DiSC: Theory and Research. A brief history and overview of the DiSC assessment.

Everything DiSC® is an assessment-based learning experience that deepens self-awareness, inspires appreciation of others, and fosters effective collaboration in the workplace. Backed by over 40 years of research and NewSummit, you can expect customizable solutions that meet your organization’s unique training needs. Start your organization on the path from personalized insight to cultural change today.

Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict is a classroom training and personalized learning experience that increases self-awareness around conflict behaviors and helps participants effectively respond to the uncomfortable and unavoidable challenges of workplace conflict. Rather than focus on a step-by-step process for conflict resolution, it offers personalized techniques to curb destructive behaviors so that conflict can become more productive, ultimately improving workplace relationships and results.

The Five Behaviors® is the result of the partnership between Wiley Workplace Learning Solutions and best-selling author Patrick Lencioni. Our mission is to deliver a premiere learning solution that improves team effectiveness and productivity through the understanding and application of The Five Behaviors: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results. This unique learning experience helps build a culture of high-performing teams through better communication and collaboration.

Based on the work of Patrick Lencioni’s international best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Five Behaviors® Powered by Everything DiSC® helps teams apply The Five Behaviors® model of Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results to drive team effectiveness and productivity. The program uses Everything DiSC, a tool that helps build effective team communication and relationships, to help participants understand their individual DiSC® style and discover how each style brings value to the team.

Personal Development was designed specifically to work for individuals; participants do not all need to be part of the same team. Rather, participants can carry the takeaways of this program from one team to the next, enabling a culture of teamwork. Learners at all levels of an organization can benefit from this program and adopt its powerful principles, shape behaviors, and create a common language that empowers people to rewrite what it means to work together.

Everything DiSC Workplace® is a classroom training and personalized learning experience that can benefit every person in the organization—regardless of title or position, department or function—in building more productive and effective relationships at work.

Learn how one virtual team learned how to stay connected from over 1,000 miles away.

Today, organizational culture cannot be an afterthought. It must be focused on—intentionally and continually—to ensure recovery and results. That’s where Everything DiSC® on Catalyst™ comes in.

There is no doubt about it — if you want your company to succeed, you must be able to hold your team accountable. Holding individuals accountable for their actions is slightly more comfortable, but as a manager or business owner, you must have some way to hold multiple individuals responsible for an overall goal. Accountability is important, especially in today’s world where remote work is becoming more and more common. The following four tips can help you increase team accountability under any circumstance.

Working remotely is no longer a novelty, and for many of us, the relief of being able to work from home while staying healthy and safe with our families wore off a few months ago. With the work-from-home mandates becoming permanent for some teams across the country and with no end in sight to the pandemic, building trust in remote teams has never been more crucial to fostering productivity and maintaining company standards.

If you are working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, or if your job has always been performed...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people had to learn a skill they never thought they would need: the ability to work remotely. Are these socially distanced offices a new way of life? Nobody knows yet. There are, however, many ways to boost team morale and keep your team engaged while working from home.

If you are looking for an experienced, specialized company to provide a tailored leadership training experience for your managers, contact NewSummit Leadership today. We offer a variety of training options, including training that utilizes DISC principles to help your employees thrive while working remotely.

The coronavirus pandemic has been raging across the nation for several months. In early spring, many states issued stay-at-home orders and forced the closure, at least temporarily, of bricks-and-mortar workplaces. Though most did not have the remote working infrastructure already in place, the rapid shift to fully online operations was necessary. Likewise, not all employees were prepared for the switch to a virtual work life.