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4/29/10: Top Talent Development Posts this Week

April 29, 2010 by Wally Bock

Every week, I’ll be reviewing blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot for the week. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about engagement, onboarding, the newcomer advantage, flexible work (and life), and performance reviews. From TomorrowToday: Employee Engagement Report 2010 “Towers Watson is a global professional services [...]

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Teams and Trust

April 28, 2010 by Bill Bradley

HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: The Linkage Leader Competencies: team building, trust Who benefits: those who participate in teams, those with trust issues Consultant Usage: must read for team consultants and facilitators; organizational development consultants dealing with issues of thrust, career counselors What’s it about? I have written favorably in the past about Linkage, [...]

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Is “Talent Management” an Oxymoron?

April 27, 2010 by Wally Bock

You’ve heard the classic oxymorons. There’s “military music.” There’s “postal service.” And let’s not forget “jumbo shrimp.” Add “talent management” to that list. If it’s talent, you can’t manage it. And if you’re managing it, it’s not talent. Received management wisdom, attributed to gurus from W. Edwards Deming and Peter Drucker, through Robert Kaplan is [...]

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The Stress of Taking Breaks: Vacations Might be Harmful to Your Health

April 25, 2010 by Ken Nowack

“I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather….Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.” Will Shriner I just got back from a short holiday in Yosemite, California and I ran into a professional couple who had just arrived and expressed how they were so looking forward to the beauty of [...]

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4/22/10: Top Talent Development Posts this Week

April 22, 2010 by Wally Bock

Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about what today’s workforce must have, five common mistakes with top talent, new hires, learning on the job, and top online influencers in talent management. From Talent Management: The Four [...]

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Who Do These Bankers Think They Are?

April 21, 2010 by Bill Bradley

HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Frightening Thoughts Competencies: financial leadership, ethics Who benefits: leaders at any level; financial managers Consultant Usage: background material for those working in the financial industries What’s it about? First of all, I can’t believe I am writing two weeks in a row about Financial Stuff.  I mean I hate [...]

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Has GE lost its leadership development mojo?

April 20, 2010 by Wally Bock

The cover story in the current Business Week asks a stunning question: “Can GE Still Manage?” There have been many stories over the last few years about today’s GE not performing like the GE of old, or at least the GE of Welch. What makes this story stunning is that it doesn’t focus on stock [...]

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A Comparison of the Emotional Intelligence of Leaders in Spain and United States

April 18, 2010 by Ken Nowack

“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it” Charles Kettering A growing research literature suggests that emotional intelligence (EI) may play an important role in career success and job performance above that of personality and cognitive ability (incremental ability).  For example, a meta-analysis of 69 [...]

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4/15/10: Top Talent Development Posts this Week

April 15, 2010 by Wally Bock

Every week, I’ll be reviewing blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot for the week. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about hoarding talent, pay-for-performance and ratingless performance systems, talent development coming out of the recession, ways to waste money on people practices, and how top companies [...]

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What is FI?

April 14, 2010 by Bill Bradley

HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Financial Intelligence Competencies: self-development, financial leadership, entrepreneurial leadership Who benefits: career oriented employees, supervisors and managers, all executives; HR professionals, IT professionals, entrepreneurs Consultant Usage: important background information for organizational consultants, executive coaches What’s it about? This site supports financial leadership and entrepreneurial leadership as organizational competencies.  Unfortunately we [...]

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