December 30, 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: An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. Bill Vaughan Humor Break: Bev was taking an afternoon nap on New Year’s [...]
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December 29, 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 year just about past, talent marketing, the gift of coaching, and everything that’s wrong with performance reviews. From Taleo Research: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the [...]
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December 28, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Important Reads for Educated and Concerned People Competencies: communication, self-development, ethics, leadership, managing others Who benefits: individuals who are engaged in self-development, the workplace and in the world Consultant Usage: consultants who are engaged in self-development, the workplace and in the world What’s it about? This is my final [...]
December 27, 2011 by Wally Bock
Dr. John Sullivan has a great post on ERE.net. The title is “Why Not Start the New Year by Doing Something Strategic in Talent Management?” Here’s the lead. “The New Year is an opportune time to “raise the bar” by doing something strategic in talent management. In many corporations, new plans and budgets take effect [...]
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December 25, 2011 by Ken Nowack
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein Another edition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. According to a late 2010 survey by CareerBuilder.com (2,482 U.S. managers and 3,910 full-time employees in [...]
December 23, 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’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” –George Lorimer Humor Break: From our favorite married couple: Bev: “What are you going to [...]
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December 22, 2011 by Sandra Mashihi
“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” -Shirley Chisholm “Best practices” in 360-degree feedback processes suggest that the greater transfer of learning and goal setting occurs when a manager or coach helps participants understand and debrief their reports (Nowack, 2009). All too often, vendors [...]
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December 22, 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 why large companies fail to keep top talent and what’s most important when it comes to talent retention. There are also pointers to an article on supply chain management principles [...]
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December 21, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Building good relationships with yourself and others Competencies: self-development, managing self, oral and written communications, listening Who benefits: everyone Consultant Usage: communication trainers and consultants looking for interesting background material What’s it about? As the year stumbles to a close, many of us look back and reflect on what [...]
December 20, 2011 by Sandra Mashihi
This free exercise, and dozens of others, were created for our book Clueless! Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It. You can learn more about Clueless by visiting our site or you can buy it from amazon.com today. Purpose of Exercise: This exercise is intended to help your clients understand how they contribute to the [...]
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December 20, 2011 by Wally Bock
John’s not a top executive, or even a hi-po. He’s an engineer who works at General Electric and he loves it. Earlier this year I asked him why. He paused before answering. “I do interesting engineering work,” he said, “so I’m always learning. And I enjoy the people I work with, but the big thing [...]
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December 18, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“You can observe a lot by watching.” Yogi Berra What factors are most important to an individual’s career success and how do they contribute to it? A recent study tried to answer this question in an unusual way — by analyzing the speeches of baseball stars when they are inducted into the National Baseball Hall [...]
December 16, 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: “Mom always liked you best!” Tommy Smothers Humor Break: “Why is it always my least favorite people who accuse me of favoritism?” Stat of the Week: Twenty-three percent of more than 300 senior [...]
December 15, 2011 by Sandra Mashihi
“A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.” -Christian Nevell Bovee Open-ended comments have some clear benefits and disadvantages. Participants generally find comments from open-ended questions useful and a great way of clarifying the sometimes confusing quantitative scores (e.g., when rater agreement is low but average scores are moderate or moderately high). Open-ended comments [...]
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December 15, 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 talent development and culture, the preparation of recent college graduates, succession planning at Ford, and fixing HR. From Deidre H. Campbell: What Great Companies Know About Culture “Even in this [...]
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