Posts by Jay Hidalgo

The Enneagram in Hiring & Recruiting

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What Is the Enneagram? The Enneagram is a personality “mapping” system that identifies nine different, interconnected personality types. In contrast with other popular personality assessments, the Enneagram focuses on people’s motivations instead of behaviors.  The Nine Enneagram Personality Types Type One: The Reformer Type Two: The Helper Type Three: The Achiever Type Four: The Individualist…

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Encouraging Employee Innovation in the Workplace

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What Is Workplace Innovation? Workplace innovation is a process of implementing something new—a new way of thinking, creating, and working. It encourages employees to be passionate about their work, and it harnesses the power of employee creativity to create new solutions to old problems.  If it isn’t already, workplace innovation should be a part of…

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Key Personality Types for Your Strategic Planning Team

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What influences your business’s strategic plan? It could be last year’s profits, customer feedback, new products, a changing economy, or any number of factors. But a significant factor affecting your strategic plan—and your likelihood of success—is the team that creates it. Why Personality Types Matter to Strategic Planning Who’s invited to the strategic planning table…

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