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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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, [...]
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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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 [...]
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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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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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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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 [...]
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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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 [...]
April 13, 2010 by Wally Bock
You may be a super-smart consultant. You probably topped your classes in high school and college. It’s likely that you zipped through graduate school. . That would make you exactly like the consultants that David Maister described in a recent interview. He called them: “highly intelligent people who value and celebrate that which is rational, [...]
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April 12, 2010 by Andy Parkinson
We’re pleased to announce Wally Bock as the latest addition to the Results vs. Activities regular contributors! Since leaving the Marines in 1968, Wally has been a manager, leader, trainer, writer and entrepreneur. He now spends his time sharing the best of what he’s learned about leadership via coaching, writing books, Tweeting and blogging. Our [...]
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April 11, 2010 by Ken Nowack
“Don’t Confuse Facts with Reality.” Robert Ballard 1. According to a survey conducted at the 2009 World Economic Forum, 12% of the respondents said an inadequately trained workforce was a barrier in doing business in the U.S. This figure was 9.9 in the UK, 6.2 in China and 4.8 in India. 2. A survey of [...]
April 7, 2010 by Bill Bradley
“For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.“ Winston Churchill,1954 HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: The King of Optimism Competency: self-development Who benefits: you Consultant Usage: all forms of coaching and career counseling; interesting stories to quote in training classes What’s it about? Before [...]
April 4, 2010 by Ken Nowack
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.” Mark Twain How Healthy Are Employees? I recently did an analysis of a random sample of over 1,000 working professionals in diverse industries who have used our personal stress and [...]