What Did 2024 Teach You?

2025 is upon us. Rather than planning your next calendar year, take a look back at the experiences you had in 2024 and the lessons they can impart.

Business

What did you learn regarding employment? Did you discover the benefits of using the Core Values Index™ in hiring? Think back to your experiences in team management. Were there any new insights revealed after focusing on putting the right people into the right seats?

Our data shows that using the Core Values Index and a Top Performer Profile™ in hiring often results in 200% or higher productivity and 50% or lower turn-over for that position. Do you have plans to use the CVI+TPP in 2025?

Perhaps one of the hottest topic questions is: did you use or implement AI in any way, and if so, how did it go?

Economically, 2024 was a year of growth. Employment was strong, especially in manufacturing, and wages increased, particularly for those in lower income brackets. The DOW went up nearly 20%.

Career

One of the most impactful things you can do for your career is to understand your own psychometric hardwiring. If you are pursuing employment in a career track that is contrary to how you are hardwired, it will be like trying to play billiards with a rope.

There is a 70% chance that you are unhappy in your current career. Industry statistics show that almost three-fourths of workers are disengaged in their current job, so odds are you can relate to that feeling.

If you are one of the happy ones in your job, why is that? What is it about your job that makes you feel so engaged?

Do you wake up on Monday morning before the alarm, eager to start your week because your job seems to be perfectly aligned with how you are hardwired?

If you're unhappy in your job, the CVI comes with a Personalized Career Guide that can help you find out why.

They say people don't quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses. You may highly aligned with the needs of your role but your supervisor probably isn't aligned to theirs.

Understanding how you are emotionally and psychometrically aligned to your role is the first step toward ensuring you are in the right career track for your personality's DNA. Anything else is trying to nail gravy to a tree.

Relationships

We all see the world through our own psychometrically tinted glasses. Our personality's DNA shapes the way we think, what we enjoy, how we communicate with others and how we want them to communicate with us.

Everyone's psychometric lens influences their relationships in both directions.

Look back on 2024 and think about situations where you and another person gelled right from the start. It may have seemed that "great minds think alike" was the name of the game, even if you had different backgrounds and life experiences. Why was that?

Perhaps you interacted with someone who was oil to your water. The two of you butted heads and clashed from the moment you met. Why was that?

Similar to how people can be psychometrically aligned (or misaligned) to the needs of their occupational role, people can be psychometrically aligned (or misaligned) to the hardwiring of others.

An increasing number of life coaches, psychotherapists, and relationship counselors are using the highly accurate and reliable Core Values Index psychometric assessment to help their clients understand — and ultimately improve — their interpersonal relationships.

Few tools help couples understand each other more effectively than the Core Values Index.

The first step is to understand how you see the world and why. The next step is to learn how to recognize the emotional and psychometric hardwiring of others and shift your expectations and actions according to the needs of your relationship. This isn't just about long-term relationships like life partners and marriages, it pays dividends with people you just met and may never see again.

Understanding your own hardwiring and being able to pick up on the hardwiring of others is one of the most profoundly beneficial uses of the CVI.

Education

Most of us only concern ourselves with our educational track when we're in high school or maybe the first year or two of college. After that, we resign ourselves to the inertia-driven path we've chosen.

Beyond simply looking back on 2024, but thinking back to when you were a teenager and considering what you've experienced in the working world as an adult, what would you do differently?

What insight about yourself and how you are hardwired would have been useful before you embarked on your vocational career?

True or False: "If I could go back in time, I'd do things very differently."

A growing number of teens and young adults are using the Core Values Index to more accurately plan out their educational path and subsequent job track. But what about adults who are well into their career?

One of the most empowering things you can do is to take the CVI and compare how it describes your emotional and psychometric hardwiring to the career path you're already on.

Are you in a job that requires intense levels of creativity while your CVI profile describes you as a highly analytical person?

It's never too late to pursue new avenues of personal and vocational growth, even if it's just a ten-degree shift in a new direction. The first step is to get your psychometric report and learn how you're hardwired. That tells you the ideal of where to go. It's up to you to compare that to where you are and consider your options.

The full CVI comes with a Personalized Career Guide. It describes the typical career paths ideally suited to your particular CVI profile.

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