Where do star profiles fit in todays emphasis on “right-brain” aptitudes or emotional intelligence?
A driving point of today’s emphasis on right-brain aptitude or emotional intelligence is that technical ability is not enough. Among other things, how employees treat others is critically important, along with how well they adapt to change and how versatile they can become in response to competitive challenges. Moreover, employees don’t just want a paycheck, health insurance, and a 401k (although none of these can be taken for granted anymore); they want real engagement with their work and a sense of purpose, significance, and accomplishment. recipientid”> Star profiles help by requiring employers to reduce every job to its irreducible core-two to four or five sentences connecting the most desired results with the most critically important behaviors needed to produce them. This “big-picture” succinctness necessitates collaboration between employee, supervisor, and others in the exploration of the “how” and the “what” of a job in order to achieve its “why” (the real value that job can a
