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Use an Emergenetics Approach to Support Your Staff

During times of crisis and uncertainty, your organization and employees may be faced with unfamiliar and stressful circumstances. To help you navigate these challenging situations, we've compiled a number of resources to help you practically apply the Attributes to support employee engagement, effective communication, successful collaboration and enhance results.

Below you'll find a WEapproach (or a Whole Emergenetics approach) that employs cognitive diversity to address a number of business concerns, including:

  • Planning for business continuity
  • Communicating through uncertainty
  • Supporting staff under stress
  • Strengthening productivity for employees
  • Building positive cultures for distributed workforces
  • Managing remote teams
  • Leading effective virtual trainings

Planning for Business Continuity

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To address the challenges of major pandemics or other crises, businesses turn to their business continuity plans (BCPs).

Make sure your team is set up with its own BCP and use the power of cognitive diversity to ensure that you have effectively outlined the essential elements that are important to each Emergenetics Attribute.

A few ideas to get started:

  • Analyze your current BCP against this checklist or use the checklist to develop your own
  • Share the content with the leaders in your organization who are responsible for your BCP
  • Provide it to managers and leaders to help them review their departmental or team plans using a cognitively diverse approach

Download the checklist.

Communicating through Uncertainty

It can be challenging to effectively communicate when there is a great deal of ambiguity or organizations are rapidly changing tactics and approaches to manage new business realities.

By speaking to each of the Emergenetics Attributes, you can feel more confident that your communications will resonate with staff and minimize intent-impact gaps.

A few ideas to get started:

  • Apply this content to your own work as you connect with direct reports, colleagues or clients
  • Share these materials with managers and leaders to help them communicate in times of uncertainty
  • Provide these materials to internal communications teams to help them effectively craft messaging

Download our template or read our blog.

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Supporting Staff Under Stress

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Working in new ways and managing uncertain times can often lead to stress. When we're feeling the pressure, we may find ourselves flexing into our own preferences and styles of working to an even greater extent than usual.

To help you recognize your own stress and identify it in others, we've outlined how anxiety can show up in the Emergenetics Attributes and offer communication tips to address these challenges.

A few ideas to get started:

  • Apply these resources in your own work as you navigate stress and recognize your own needs
  • Share the materials with managers and leaders to help them learn how they can support their employees
  • Distribute these resources to teams to help them understand one another's stress and learn to work together more effectively

Download the template or read our blog post.

Strengthening Productivity for Employees

Whether working in the office or remotely, it can be a challenge to maximize productivity. When we consider the way that others prefer to receive information, however, we can adjust the way we communicate and interact with our colleagues to enhance their effectiveness.

To help your team members work more productively, consider how to apply combinations of bimodal Thinking as well as the Behavioral Attributes.

A ideas to get started:

  • Reference these images, along with the Emergenetics Profiles of your colleagues, direct reports or manager, to support their preferred working styles or implement a WEapproach
  • Consider the potential implications for trimodal and quadramodal thinkers. As natural translators, they can help drive outputs
  • Share these images with managers and leaders so they can adjust the way they provide direction or support based on employees' preferences

Download our images.

Productivity Tips

 

Building Positive Cultures for Distributed Workforces

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While you may not always have an option to get your teams together in person, that doesn't mean your culture and team building initiatives should be set aside.

Culture is an essential part of successful businesses, and it becomes increasingly important to manage your culture carefully as you seek to engage distributed workforces. To help you connect your staff, consider a WEapproach to culture building.

A few ideas to get started:

  • Share these resources with Human Resources as well as individuals who oversee culture initiatives for employees 
  • Provide these materials to managers or leaders to help them apply a WEapproach to culture building
  • Encourage teams to review these resources as they identify ways to engage with one another and connect

Download our template or read our blog post.

Managing Remote Teams

As managers navigate how to lead fully remote or partially distributed teams, it can be a challenge to identify how best to support staff or what sorts of approaches may help them to be most successful in a new environment.

Using the Emergenetics Attributes, managers can tailor the employee experience to the needs of each team member.

A few ideas to get started:

  • Share these resources with managers who are leading remote teams, so they can adjust tactics to meet the needs of their employees
  • Encourage distributed team members to review these materials to better collaborate and communicate with one another
  • Use these resources to help managers, leaders and team members employ a WEapproach to their work if they are unfamiliar with the individual Profiles of each person

Download our template or read our blog post.

Tips to Manage Remote Teams

 

Leading Effective Virtual Trainings

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As remote working continues to expand even beyond a pandemic response, Learning & Development professionals are being asked increasingly to support virtual learning.

To help you prepare for your programs and keep your learners engaged with your content, you can explore how each of the Attributes prefers to engage with digital programming.

A few ideas to get started:

  • Use these resources to prepare for your next virtual learning session
  • Share with other teams you know that are responsible for delivering training
  • Provide the materials to leaders or managers who may be giving virtual presentations or company updates - many of these lessons expand beyond training

Download our template and checklist or read our blog post.

Want to Learn More?

To discover how Emergenetics can support your business during challenging times by enhancing employee engagement, improving communication, supporting collaboration or strengthening productivity, connect with us today. Fill out the form below to speak with a member of our team.

About Emergenetics International

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