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Having an offsite event can result in meetings that are more productive and stick with attendees long into the future. Offsite team strategy meetings aren’t cheap or quick. Making the most of these events is essential for ensuring your resources are well spent. Running offsites that leave an impression and

Strong leaders don’t grow on trees, but they can be nurtured and grown inside your organization when given the opportunity and support to do so. Since the beginning of an industry, the practice of apprenticeship has been utilized as a method for ensuring that skilled artisans have replacements waiting in

Most effective leaders understand the importance of growth because they realize there is always room to improve. The skills necessary for being a great leader are innumerable, with new things to learn added to that list every day. At Treaty Oak, we want you to achieve success. In pursuit of

A number of tools are available for organizations, supporting their talent acquisition process from onboarding to succession planning, and everything in between. However, without an assessment strategy that has clear measurable factors, businesses aren’t using these tools to their full potential. Even more importantly, they aren’t putting an infrastructure in

According to Microsoft, modern humans supposedly have an average attention span of 8 seconds. That’s even shorter than the infamously short memory of a goldfish that clocks in at 9 seconds! Whether or not this is true, we’ve all seen how easily people can get distracted or lose interest in

An organization’s ecosystem, much like a biological one, should support growth. In a biological ecosystem, life interacts symbiotically to achieve growth. For instance, plants provide oxygen that animals breathe. An organization can support growth by creating a learning ecosystem where curious, innovative, hard-working employees are rewarded. This is what happened

Words matter. When you speak to your employees and coworkers, it isn’t about the technical terms you use as much as it is about communicating effectively. People aren’t going to remember what you said nearly as much as how you made them feel. It is critical to leave your team

You’ve probably identified a few high-potential employees who you would like to see take on leadership roles. Perhaps you’ve even offered them opportunities that for some reason, beyond your comprehension, they have declined. If you’ve been offering a leadership development training program and not seeing much interest, it can be