November 30, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Management? It’s Not What You Think! Competency: leadership, visionary leadership Who benefits: anyone in management or aspiring to management Consultant Usage: organizational consultants, executive coaches What’s it about? Are you up for a most unconventional book about management? Professor and Organizational Development Swami Henry Mitzeberg and colleagues have put [...]
November 29, 2011 by Wally Bock
Stacia Garr’s post, “To Coach or Not to Coach? That is Not the Question” begins this way. “If Hamlet were a manager in 2011, he might have asked himself, “is it worth it to spend time coaching my employees?” In new coaching research published today, High-Impact Performance Management: Maximizing Coaching, we show that this is [...]
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November 28, 2011 by Sandra Mashihi
“I was afraid of the internet… because I couldn’t type.” -Jack Welch The two most popular approaches for data collection are online or paper-and-pencil surveys. While, the majority of vendors and companies today utilize Internet-based administration systems, several studies have verified that there is equivalence in using online methods and handwritten tools. For example, Penny [...]
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November 27, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Gratitude is fertilizer for well-being.” Kenneth Nowack If you want to change the world, have a lasting impact on your community, create a meaningful and psychological healthy workplace, develop a safe community, loving family or meaningful partnership–it all starts with you. Several recent research studies have focused on the power of gratitude giving as a [...]
November 25, 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 about the workplace of the future, onboarding remote workers, keeping top talent, and Sam Palmisano of IBM. From the Miami Herald: Big changes coming to future workplace “Imagine a company where [...]
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November 25, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quotes of the Week: “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” J. Paul Getty “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” George Edward Woodberry Humor Break: Sir, [...]
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November 23, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Perfectionism – curse or blessing? Competency: coaching, performance management Who benefits: all levels of management Consultant Usage: highly recommended for professional coaches What’s it about? Last week I reviewed a new book: Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. One group of people who have a hard time [...]
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November 22, 2011 by Wally Bock
“They don’t know how to DO engineering.” My friend was complaining about the recent engineering graduates that his company hires. From his perspective, engineering schools have moved from teaching practical engineering skills to more theoretical material. The result: the more seasoned engineers in his company find themselves teaching newcomers what he considers “basic” skills. That [...]
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November 20, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.” George Carlin To stimulate research on the topic of poor leadership, Robert Hogan in 1990 suggested that the base rate [...]
November 18, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quotes of the Week: Non-techie quote: Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? – T.S. Elliot Techie quote: 640K ought to be enough for anybody. – Bill Gates, 1981 Humor Break: Today we bring you [...]
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November 17, 2011 by Sandra Mashihi
“I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.” -Emma Watson Much research verifies that when raters are held accountable or identified, they tend to inflate ratings on 360-degree feedback assessments, because they are concerned about the repercussions of low ratings. Thus, the anonymity of raters does appear to ensure more accurate ratings (Morgeson, Mumford, [...]
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November 17, 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 mobile recruiting, navigating the skills gap, training budgets, and peer support for executives. From John Zappe: Study: Employers Are Slow To Completely Invest in Mobile Recruiting “Only 7 percent of [...]
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November 16, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It Competency: coaching, performance management Who benefits: all levels of management Consultant Usage: executive coaches, career counselors What’s it about? I picked up this delightfully titled book for two reasons. First, the large bold type word “Clueless” seemed to speak to me. [...]
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November 15, 2011 by Wally Bock
Jack Taylor’s story is one of those “greatest generation” stories. In World War II he was part of Air Group 15, known as “Legendary 15.” He flew thirty-five combat missions, most off the carriers Essex and Enterprise. He came home and started a successful business delivering packages, was wooed away by an auto dealer, and [...]
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November 11, 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: “You can’t adapt to commuting, because it’s entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.” Daniel Gilbert Humor Break: A recent college graduate took a new job in [...]
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