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Beyond the Norm: How Exponential Organizations Challenge the Status Quo to Achieve Strategic Success

AJ Cheponis

Apr 18, 20233 min read

Beyond the Norm: How Exponential Organizations Challenge the Status Quo to Achieve Strategic Success

Companies should try out new techniques on a smaller scale before implementing them on a larger scale.

Are you tired of making bad hiring decisions due to groupthink?

AJ Cheponis

Mar 21, 20232 min read

Are you tired of making bad hiring decisions due to groupthink?

When it comes to hiring, it's better to make decisions as a group rather than relying on the judgment of a single person.

Achieving More with Less: The Power of Talent Optimization and the 4-Day Workweek

AJ Cheponis

Mar 16, 20233 min read

Achieving More with Less: The Power of Talent Optimization and the 4-Day Workweek

By focusing on talent optimization, businesses can find new ways to engage employees, improve productivity, and achieve greater success.

Don't Waste Your Time: Avoid These Talent Strategy Pitfalls

AJ Cheponis

Mar 9, 20233 min read

Don't Waste Your Time: Avoid These Talent Strategy Pitfalls

A good talent strategy guides priorities and decision-making at all levels of your organization.

The Cost of Disagreement in Your Organization

AJ Cheponis

Mar 7, 20232 min read

The Cost of Disagreement in Your Organization

The cost of misalignment on your organization's strategy can be high.

Unlocking Investment Potential: Why Leadership Fit Matters in Startup Success

AJ Cheponis

Mar 2, 20235 min read

Unlocking Investment Potential: Why Leadership Fit Matters in Startup Success

One way to achieve this is by evaluating your executive team's leadership competencies to ensure that they match the company's needs.

AJ Cheponis

Dec 28, 202213 min read

A Hiring Strategy That Works

Here are five ways to develop an effective hiring strategy and align your HR practices with your organization’s needs.

Employee development: Why it pays to invest in your people

AJ Cheponis

Dec 21, 20223 min read

Employee development: Why it pays to invest in your people

Investing in the professional development of your team members can result in a wide range of advantages.

Self-awareness: The key to leadership success

AJ Cheponis

Dec 7, 20222 min read

Self-awareness: The key to leadership success

Self-awareness is a mandatory trait for successful leaders. Yet, fostering self-awareness isn’t easy for some people.

Has The Great Resignation Ended? Here’s what executives think.

AJ Cheponis

Sep 20, 20222 min read

Has The Great Resignation Ended? Here’s what executives think.

Don’t wait for Forbes or Fast Company to declare The Great Resignation “over.” Don’t assume your organization is immune to burnout or...

AJ Cheponis

Apr 12, 202213 min read

Attracting Top Talent In 2022

Today’s top talent may not want anything different from their predecessors—they’re just in a better position to get what they want.

AJ Cheponis

Nov 5, 20203 min read

Identify your hiring priorities

Are you overwhelmed with the number of job openings in your organization? Do you feel like you need to fill all the jobs, right now? If...

AJ Cheponis

Aug 20, 20203 min read

How to roll out changes at your company

Before taking action, make sure your leadership team is aligned on a goal.

AJ Cheponis

Aug 18, 20203 min read

Company culture in the age of the cloud

Altering processes can cause disruption—especially in organizations where employees have maintained positions for more than 10 years.

AJ Cheponis

Aug 3, 20203 min read

Culture Fit Interview Questions

High-performing companies look beyond the briefcase. A resume reveals nothing about a person’s values, passions, interests & beliefs.

Learn new organizational techniques from exponential organizations

AJ Cheponis

Jul 7, 20203 min read

Learn new organizational techniques from exponential organizations

Did you know that Google has a team whose only job is to find a way to disrupt Google’s current business model? We can learn a lot from that

AJ Cheponis

Jul 6, 20202 min read

How to discuss DEI

Having honest DEI discussions is only the first step in a larger movement. Once you’ve solicited feedback, there’s a much tougher step ahead

Diversity and inclusion go hand-in-hand with talent optimization

AJ Cheponis

Jun 4, 20203 min read

Diversity and inclusion go hand-in-hand with talent optimization

For companies that fail to invest in D&I initiatives, the risks are great.

How to recruit and hire a top-performing sales manager

AJ Cheponis

May 19, 20206 min read

How to recruit and hire a top-performing sales manager

Quantitative data and technology provides hiring managers with the ability to leverage data to predict candidate job-fit.

Organizational resilience: what you need to know

AJ Cheponis

May 11, 20204 min read

Organizational resilience: what you need to know

To be resilient means to be able to return to your original shape after being bent, stretched, or pressed. “Resilience” is being used now...