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 designing a training program, assessment tools, motivation, selecting new managers, and development.
From SmartBlog: Design a training program that works
“So, you’ve just hired someone — they have a great attitude and [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: How to Be the Best … and Learn from the Worst
Competency: leadership
Who benefits: executives, managers, supervisors, future leaders
Consultant Usage: highly recommend this book to executive coaches; great stories for leadership and management trainers
What’s it about? This is one of my shortest posts ever. Don’t want to waste your time. Do [...]
There’s more than one lesson to be learned from the Mark Hurd/HP fiasco. In addition to sending Mr. Hurd packing with a dump truck full of cash, the company also started scrambling to find a new CEO.
Over at Johnson and Johnson there’s a slightly different situation. In an article titled “J and J Chief Tends [...]
“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. .”
Franklin P. Jones
Cigarettes in the United States all come with health warning labelson boxes—perhaps vendors should do the same in marketing and selling multi-rater assessments that are so commonly used by coaches, consultants and organizational practitioners. These same [...]
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 stopping top talent brain drain, driving up engagement, managing talent development at Honest Tea, mandatory mentoring duty, and the impact of social media on the hiring process.
From Fortune: How big [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Women Are Losers: Why traditional mentoring programs can be detrimental to women’s careers
Competencies: coaching, talent management, mentoring
Who benefits: while this article is primarily about women, the content is useful to upward and outward mobile employees and their bosses and mentors
Consultant Usage: career development specialists, executive coaches, some trainers
What’s it about? [...]
Listen up, friends. Sam Cooke sang it “A Change is Gonna Come.” And you’re about to be part of it whether you like it or not.
That thought came flying into my head when I read John Sumser’s “HRXformation” post at HR Examiner. Here’s the core of his message.
“It looks like there are several kinds of [...]
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
Pearl S. Buck
Have you ever experienced leaders who seem to lose it during meetings or tense interactions with others–emotions spewing out of them like hot lava leaving an active Mount St. Helens? Or, [...]
very 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 identifying future leaders, investing in leadership development, motivation without money, evaluation perils, and learning from the Mark Hurd affair (probably not what you think).
From Industry Week: Identifying Your Future Leaders
“Sustained, [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Well Connected: An Unconventional Approach to Building Genuine, Effective Business Relationships
Competencies: career development, sales, achievement orientation, managing relationships, building strategic relationships, collaboration, engenders trust
Who benefits: any person not satisfied with the status quo
Consultant Usage: highly recommended for consultant self-development and business building
What’s it about? Today’s post is short and sweet. [...]