January 2026 | Newsletter Issue 69
The Omnia Insights
📈 Employee Development as a Business Growth Strategy
We hope your 2026 is off to a great start. Achieving sales targets, stronger cash flows and bottom lines are top goals for companies every year. But how you achieve them makes all the difference. Hitting your numbers should not come at the cost of disengaged and burnt-out employees, unhappy managers, or rising attrition.
Growing the business without growing your people is a short-term play. When employees are expected to do their jobs without much clarity or transparency from management, or without growth opportunities and coaching, performance eventually plateaus and turnover rises. Making employee development part of how work gets done must become a leadership responsibility.
The data supports this need. According to LinkedIn Workplace Learning Reports, 94% of employees say they would stay longer at a company that invests in their development.
This month, we explore employee development in real-world practice. We share a 120-day growth plan, introduce professional development coaching guides, explore ways to align AI investments with talent strategy, and create real career clarity and loyalty. Together, these actionable insights help leaders integrate employee growth and development into everyday leadership.
Keeping your employees and their success at the heart of the business is a strategy that keeps paying back. Here’s to a great year ahead. Until next month.
Insights From Our Team
Most People Lock Themselves into a Year That Never Feels Right
By March, most people are exhausted by work they agreed to and quietly disappointed by how little it seems to matter. This blog introduces a focused 120-day growth plan to drive measurable personal and professional development, not just sustained busyness.
Introducing the Omnia Professional Development Coaching Guides
Focus on employees’ growth opportunities beyond their current roles. Help managers coach more effectively by tailoring conversations to how each person learns, works, and grows. Learn how the Omnia Professional Development Coaching Guides support more consistent, meaningful development conversations.
Stop Winging It! How to Build Careers and Loyalty in a Changing Workplace
When employees can’t see a future with your organization, they start imagining one somewhere else. Here’s a practical framework to help leaders create career clarity, strengthen loyalty, and support long-term growth.
AI Won’t Transform Your Business—Your People Will
Investing in AI without investing in your people is like buying a race car and never training the driver. Explore three ways to build future-ready teams where tech and talent grow together.
Upcoming Webinars
Take Away Tuesday
Coaching, Simplified: A Clear, Practical Framework for Leaders
Coaching gets easier when leaders and employees have the right tools. In this session, we’ll share a practical approach that pairs coaching guides for leaders with development reports written for employees. Together, they help spark clearer conversations, increase self-awareness and make growth feel achievable on both sides of the table.
🗓️ February 17th, 2026, 1:00-1:45 pm EST
First Friday Fundamentals
Join us for our quarterly training webinar on the Omnia Behavioral Assessment. We’ll dive into the personality dimensions at work and go over everything that our assessment measures, along with the various reports available to you. We’ll also discuss practical applications of the data, such as using it to improve hiring reliability, enhance employee development, and retain top performers.
🗓️ March 6th, 2026, 12:30-1:30 pm EST
Client Spotlight
Freedom Boat Club of Hampton Roads
Freedom Boat Club of Hampton Roads came on board with Omnia in 2024 and has experienced smooth waters ever since.
Andy Sutter is a retired U.S. Navy Senior Chief, multi-location Freedom Boat Club owner, and business consultant. He uses the Omnia Profile as a practical tool in his businesses to make better hiring decisions and to more effectively manage, lead, and develop his teams. The insights provided by Omnia help Andy place the right people in the right roles and manage them with greater clarity and intention. He has also self-implemented EOS-based principles in his own businesses to drive accountability, structure, and consistent execution.
Andy lives in Chesapeake, Virginia with his wife, Janet, and remains active in the business community throughout the Hampton Roads region.
You can learn more about Freedom Boat Club of Hampton Roads here: https://www.wavy.com/news/military/veterans/hampton-roads-veterans-find-solace-on-the-water-with-freedom-boat-club/
Events Line Up!
February 4th: Presenting “The Human Side of Tech Driven Hiring” to the Florida Bankers Association’s HR Peer Group
February 18th: Participating in the JaxChamber’s Women Connecting Women event in Jacksonville, FL
February 25th – 27th: Attending Craig Wiggins Live in Las Vegas, NV
Thanks for reading this far. Please stay connected with us on social media and at the events. See you next month!
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