October 13, 2011 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on the Mercer study on employee commitment, talent management software, investing in your people, creating a good leadership training program, and choosing leaders at random. From TLNT: Survey: Employees Are Unhappy, [...]
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October 12, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Ask Yourself These Questions Competencies: leadership, managing self, self-development Who benefits: leaders, managers, supervisors, and leader wannabes Consultant Usage: must read for executive coaches and leadership trainers What’s it about? When I first started posting these Wednesday missives had a certain randomness. I was trying to cover a wide [...]
October 11, 2011 by Wally Bock
You won’t find a straight line in nature. In fact, the only place you find straight lines is in artificial things, like books and theories on leadership development. We’ve got to change that. Check the leadership development program at your place. Does it assume that people decide on a straight-line career ladder and then climb [...]
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October 9, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Steve Jobs I remember the very first personal computer I purchased in the early 1980s with a buddy of mine at an IBM retail store in Beverly Hills, CA. It was an IBM XT PC with an internal 10MB [...]
October 7, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quote of the Week: For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. Lily Tomlin Humor Break: Tell me again the advantages of work: In Prison … you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell. At Work [...]
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October 6, 2011 by Sandra Mashihi
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.” -Saki The goal of all 360-degree feedback processes is to provide clear information for professional development in a manner that motivates individuals to make specific behavioral changes, leading to enhanced effectiveness. Generally, the feedback from 360-degree assessments can be shared with the program participant, his or her [...]
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October 6, 2011 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on talent management and innovation, an example of a high performing talent management program, promoting CEOs from within, when to fire the head of HR, and how to keep the talent [...]
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October 5, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Competencies: adaptability/stress tolerance, managing self, self-development Who benefits: those searching for answers Consultant Usage: interesting perspective on the world of work and personal success What’s it about? This is not the book I thought it was when I set out to read it. I have [...]
October 4, 2011 by Wally Bock
Founders, especially charismatic or dominating ones, are the stuff of folklore in American business. Sometimes they live on in their company’s name, as in “Dell” or “Boeing” and they always live in the stories we tell about them. Steve Jobs is the most recent example of the breed, which is why there have been so [...]
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October 2, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“First get your facts; then you distort them at your leisure” Mark Twain How do you know if your coaching intervention was successful? You can always use the “smiley face” approach and just ask for client reactions. Want an improved way to measure client reaction to evaluate your coaching intervention? The “post-then-pre” method of self-report [...]