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EP 205 | Millions Hiding in Your Organization | Porschia Parker-Griffin Two sisters bought a pearl necklace at a Goodwill for sixty-nine cents. The appraisal came back at $50,000. Do you undervalue your team in a similar way? One designer at an architecture firm shared her underappraisal with Glassdoor because her owner had yet to ask. Porschia Parker-Griffin helps organizations unlock the millions of dollars of potential hiding inside their own teams. What would an appraisal of your team discover that you priced too low? ABOUT THE GUEST Porschia Parker-Griffin is the founder and CEO of Fly High Coaching. She helps organizations attract, engage, and retain high-caliber professionals through tailored consulting, training, and coaching programs that achieve their business goals and enhance their culture. She holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential along with numerous other important certifications, including master practitioner status in the MBTI and certification in the Hogan assessments. She holds two psychology degrees, including a master's in industrial and organizational psychology, and she hosts the Career 101 Podcast, which she describes as everything you were never taught about career growth, development, and change. Her company tagline is soaring to your full potential. She especially enjoys helping companies unlock the millions of dollars of potential hiding in their organization, and she offers the Work Positive community her case studies, her podcast, and an open LinkedIn inbox. KEY INSIGHTS
Three core essentials attract top talent: real values rather than aspirational ones, a clear mission, and the points of distinction that separate you from every similar organization. Millennials and Gen Z team members tie themselves to mission and values. That alignment travels further than a salary bump or a full-time remote privilege. Pensions retired with the generation that earned them, which leaves values, mission, and alignment as the answer to "what are you working for?" What the executive team names as the problem is often a symptom or a byproduct of the real one. Listening at every level of the organization surfaces the friction points. Support usually looks like resources. One millennial designer posted on Glassdoor what she withheld from her owner and her manager. That post cost the firm its next round of top talent. Employers who skip engagement surveys in an employer's market still pay for high turnover, which signals the culture challenge underneath. Teresa Amabile's research across nearly 12,000 diary entries names progress on meaningful work as the strongest predictor of workday engagement. An assessment gives you the deep read on your team's personality, and both Dr. Joey and Porschia hold decades of MBTI practitioner experience.
YOUR DO ONE THING CHALLENGE Porschia's one thing: understand deeply the personality of your team. This week, take these three steps:
Choose one assessment and run it with your whole team. Sit down with each team member and ask what the results name that you had priced too low. Focus on one strength of each person and strengthen it with a to-do this quarter.
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