The four social styles matrix can be used to improve work relationships, collaboration, and overall team performance. They help you better understand your social style, how others behave, and most importantly, how to adapt your social style to others’ to work collectively and efficiently.
We sat down with neuroscientists Dr. Heidi Grant and Dr. Jay Van Bevel to discuss how neuroscience integrates with team performance.
We are proud to announce that Sounding Board, Inc has won a Bronze award for the 2021 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology for Best Advance in Online Coaching Tools.
As we approach the holiday season, we wanted to take the time to reflect on this last year. If 2020 was the year that no one saw coming, 2021 has been the year of rethinking where we are going. From companies to individuals, this has trickled down into rethinking our connection to our work, our homes, our careers and our lives.
Organizations need to invest in the development of their leaders, create clarity, and continue to address the digital and psychological challenges the pandemic has presented through 2022.
Companies have increasingly begun to regard diversity and inclusion as a source of competitive advantage, and specifically as a key enabler of growth. As companies grow and evolve, leaders must ensure that D&I efforts don’t take a back seat when looking to the future.
Training is a huge, and often necessary expense for the development of your people and business. However, a lot of training ends up falling flat for a number of reasons, be it lack of capacity, interest, or incorporating practices for sustainability. So how can organizations sustain training’s impact and how can leadership coaching help?
While you need to plan ahead and strategize before a change process, there isn’t a perfect or unique way of embracing change. Many organizations look to various change management models to help structure their thinking.
From day one our vision at Sounding Board has been to develop the world’s most impactful leaders – by delivering access to executive level coaching earlier in a leaders career when they need it most. Having started off as coach and coachee ourselves, we had a vision of scaling leadership coaching to managers and leaders of all levels in a way that was impactful and measurable.
Female-founded Sounding Board, Inc, the first customizable leadership coaching platform that enables companies to develop leaders who deliver measurable change, announced the close of its $30m Series B funding. This announcement comes just months after closing an oversubscribed Series A earlier this year.
It is not an easy task to foster a culture of inclusion and belonging in the workplace, but with the right leadership skills, tools and techniques, it is achievable.
McKinsey 7s model was developed by McKinsey consultants Tom Peters, Robert Waterman and Julien Philips in the 1980s . Since the introduction, the model has been widely used by academics and practitioners and remains one of the most popular strategic alignment tools.
No one wants to work for a bad leader. People are drawn to leaders who are respectful, empathetic and inclusive. Great leaders also foster a culture where learners can become leaders themselves. Here are six steps to become a leader that other people want to follow.
Do you have a lot of employees leaving for better, or more interesting, opportunities? This can be a key sign that your company lacks talent mobility, which is vital for reducing turnover, increasing productivity and ensuring your top talent are placed in roles best suited for their skills and development.
The ADKAR model is rated among the best organizational change management techniques and is used by many change leaders around the world. Learn how to use it at your organization.
The Kubler-Ross Model can provide leaders, coaches, and HR managers with valuable insight into their employees’ state of mind, and empower them to help team members navigate through any period of transition.
To effectively manage change, leaders need to have specific skills and abilities to develop a plan of action for their teams.
Employers are experiencing a new threat: the Great Resignation. There are a variety of reasons why employees are leaving, but one reason frequently cited by workers, a lack of growth opportunities. Explore why talent mobility is critical for organizational success
Understanding your leadership style gives you a baseline to analyze your capabilities as you seek to identify the improvements you need to make.
Now more than ever, human resource leaders are expected by their companies to streamline the workforce’s alignment with the ‘new post-Covid working normals’ and the organizations’ strategic business. So what are the current priorities for HR leaders?
The Flow Model developed by positive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi looks at what drives people to the state of flow and how one can achieve it. How can organizations use this model in the workplace to ensure better productivity and performance?
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Piyush Gupta is Chief Product Officer at Sounding Board and champions the voice of customers and users with deep empathy. Piyush envisions Sounding Board to be the first window of coaching experience for professionals and leaders worldwide. His approach is deeply rooted in proven scientific research, modeling human behaviors, and data-informed insights to deliver mindset shifts and desired business outcomes for organizations at scale. He believes that a world-class UX is key to drive simplicity that will lead to millions of professionals to access coaching for their development.
Piyush co-invented the world’s first ‘landmark intelligent driving directions’ technology that led Google to redesign their routing algorithms for the Asian markets. For the next decade, he led two disruptive FinTech companies to the market leadership positions and delivered two award-winning products that serve more than 70 million users worldwide. His teams filed 20+ patents while he himself authored three patents. He is an active startup investor and advises selected AI-driven startups on business and product strategy. He is the recipient of the World Summit Award, one of the most prestigious international honors for product innovators. In addition, he is a James Swartz fellow, the most prestigious fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University funded by the founder of the iconic venture firm, Accel Partners.
Piyush holds an MS in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Tommy is at his best helping clients think through complex challenges in order to create a positive impact on their organizations. He thrives when interacting with others whether helping his team succeed or working with clients to build long-term partnerships. He has extensive experience consulting with organizations on driving their employee experience, guiding organizations through change, and working to ensure organizations are moving the needle when it comes to their results.
Most recently, Tommy was a Client Services Leader overseeing some of GP’s most prized accounts on a global level. His responsibilities included overall client growth strategy, retention, and satisfaction. He represented all of GP Strategies’ major business lines including leadership, coaching, and engagement, digital transformation, outsourced services, and technology implementation solutions.
Before GP Strategies, Tommy spent several years with TTEC Digital (formerly rogenSI) where he led the sales team, eventually becoming the regional Learning & Performance practice leader for North America. While managing the P&L and sales team he also led the largest global relationship for the firm (Deloitte Globally). During his time at TTEC, he focused on delivering blended learning solutions that incorporate technology and hands-on training. Before TTEC Digital, he spent several years dedicated to strength-based leadership disrupting the business landscape regarding performance management and employee engagement with thought leader Marcus Buckingham at The Marcus Buckingham Company / TMBC (now ADP).
Tommy has had the privilege of working with some of the most well-known global brands in professional services, retail, technology, and healthcare including Deloitte, Facebook, Microsoft, Bank of America, Novartis, Gap Inc., lululemon, and Intel. Several projects he led for Deloitte were Global GNPS, New Partner Pivot, NextGen Partner Program Deloitte China, Present to Win, the RPM project on performance management, and Unconscious Bias.
Tommy holds a BS in Health Sciences from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from Universidad del CEMA.
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