HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Transitioning to Management: Leading Professional and Expert-Based Groups
Competencies: leadership, career development
Who benefits: specialists in or transitioning to leadership roles, bosses and coaches of specialists
Consultant Usage: executive and career development coaches
What’s it about? Today’s posting is a follow-up to my colleague/boss Ken Nowack’s wonderfully insightful post of a month ago entitled [...]
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
Aaron Levenstein
Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think?
1. A recent 2009 survey by Accenture on work life balance found an interesting surprise–68% of the men in the [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Competencies: leadership, adaptability, strategic problem solving, change management, self-development
Who benefits: leaders, managers, any individual confronting “change issues”
Consultant Usage: must read for organizational consultants
What’s it about? This book by the Heath bros. – Dan and Chip – of Made To Stick fame, came [...]
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein
How trusting are you?
Here is a quick quiz to test your level of trust:
1. I usually count the number of items in another person’s cart when I stand in the 10 item or less express lane at [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Linkage Training Workshops
Competency: coaching
Who benefits: internal and external coaches, managers and supervisors as coaches
Consultant Usage: sharpen you coaching skills
What’s it about? I like Linkage Training programs. I am not shooting for originality today, so I will just paste in what they write about themselves. I will only add that in [...]
“Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.” George Carlin
I think we can all agree that we’d like leaders (and all talent) to possess a high degree of trustworthiness, honesty an integrity. If only we could figure out the best way to [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: New Books from Jossey-Bass
Competencies: achievement orientation, engenders trust, team/interpersonal support, building strategic relationships, self-development
Who benefits: individual employees, team leaders,
Consultant Usage: staying current in area of expertise
What’s it about? I love reading and am a sucker for new books. Don’t really know if new books are any better than the oldies-but-goodies, [...]
“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.”
Franklin B. Jones
At nine months of age, all guide dog puppies go in for their a formal evaluation. It really is feedback to the volunteer puppy raisers about how we are doing–a form of 360 feedback.
Feedback can be [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Business Best Sellers
Competency: self-development,
Who benefits: people who like to read as part of their development
Consultant Usage: background material
What’s it about? Points I will concede up front about today’s posting: (1) Professional Blogs are not supposed to be mushy; (2) I am over-the-top in sentimentality; (3) Nostalgia “ain’t” what it used [...]
“If you don’t know where you are going you might wind up somewhere else”
Yogi Berra
I just finished two 3.5 day developmental assessment centers with a large University medical center and another with a state university system for high potential leaders. At the end of the assessment center, it was surprising to note that 10 to [...]