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Hiring
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Looking for a Customer Success Manager? Try these interview questions.

To nail your CSM hire, you’ll need to look beyond just skills and resume. You want to focus on ideal workplace behaviors, and you’ll need to ask the right questions to ensure the person you choose will exhibit those behaviors.

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Hiring
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Looking for a star BDR? Use these interview questions. 

You can often teach people skills; you’ll have less luck changing someone’s behavioral makeup. As you seek out that beast of a BDR, you’ll need to ask the right questions to find the right person.

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Hiring
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Looking for a sales manager? Here’s what to ask in the interview process.

Behavioral data can help you identify the right fit for a role. And when you know what behaviors lead to success in a role, you can ask the right questions – and hire with confidence.

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Hiring
5 min read

How team leadership skills enable performance—and retention

Leadership at all levels is a core tenet of talent optimization. As you navigate a wild labor market, the leadership skills you seek will evolve, too.

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Talent Optimization
7 min read

The Work on Trial series: Wayne Morris on purpose, freedom, and employee choice

Wayne Morris left a successful role in Silicon Valley in favor of more autonomy, more time with family, and a sense of purpose that felt increasingly elusive.

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Talent Optimization
3 min read

A path to perspective: J.R. Martinez is the perfect addition to the OPTIMA22 speaker lineup

Not many people embody perspective better than J.R. Martinez, the latest keynote added to the lineup for OPTIMA22, the premiere talent optimization event. 

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Employee Engagement
8 min read

How to take action on employee engagement survey results

By taking any action on employee engagement survey results, you’re doing right by your people. But the survey is just step one.

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Company Culture
14 min read

Where are our remotes?! The Hybrid Olympics Chronicles

The PI People Ops team just pulled off an unprecedented Hybrid Office Olympics. Let me elaborate by walking you through my week as a remote Office Olympian.

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People Management
9 min read

Encourage learning and development by using an employee review template.

Do you need an employee review template? It’s a valuable resource to have on hand, serving as a starting point for reviews and performance appraisals, and guiding first-time managers less accustomed to these pivotal yet tricky conversations.

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People Management
7 min read

The power of feedback: How to improve communication and performance

Looking to improve your feedback form as a manager? Consider these five techniques designed to help people actually learn and grow from evaluations.

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Teamwork
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The 5 characteristics of dysfunctional teams

Dysfunctional teams can cripple an organization. To prevent dysfunction in teams, you need an understanding of the “where” and the “why,” in addition to the more obvious “who.” 

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Hiring
8 min read

How to conduct a one-on-one interview: Advantages, questions to ask, and traits to look for

Learn how to conduct a successful one-one-one interview, ask strong interview questions, and find the right behavioral traits for the role.

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Hiring
7 min read

Strategic interview questions that actually help you hire

How do you use strategic interview questions to make better hires? Adjust your questions based on the role and the candidate, to get them speaking critically—and going off-script.

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How to attract candidates by Reference Profile

You know certain behaviors will thrive in an open position. How do you attract the right people? Go by Reference Profile, and advertise accordingly.

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Company Culture
10 min read

Normalizing mental health awareness, this May and beyond

Here at PI we’re trying to walk the walk, applying our stated mission of Better Work, Better World to conversations around self care and mental health.

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