“I will strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide.” from The MBA Oath
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Title: Culture, Ethics, Responsibility, Accountability and the Future – Part III
Competencies: visionary leadership, political leadership, engenders trust, ethics, employee involvement, empowering others
Who benefits: everyone
Consultant Usage: every consultant, trainer, and leader should be setting the tone and driving [...]
My mother had a saying that “You can’t just hire a hand. The whole man always comes with it.” The language is a little dated, but the truth is still the same.
People aren’t just a set of talents. They’re that messy bundle of stuff called human beings. Three recent blog posts lay out some of [...]
“If you are not happy here and now you never will be.”
Taisen Deshimaru
To what extent is our happiness genetically set or affected by our life situation, events, thoughts and behaviours? Can our happiness “set-point” be modified by specific actions and exercises? Dr. Ken Nowack, author of ConsultingTools’ StressScan and expert on the topic of lifestyle [...]
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot for the week. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about retaining employees, learning initiatives, trust as a force behind great places to work, senior executive compensation, and reviewing your talent management practices.
From Employee Benefit News: Salaries, [...]
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Title: Culture, Ethics, Responsibility, Accountability and the Future – Part II
Competencies: visionary leadership, political leadership, engenders trust, ethics, employee involvement, empowering others
Who benefits: everyone
Consultant Usage: every consultant, trainer, and leader should be setting the tone and driving these core competencies through their organizations and with individual employees
What’s it about? Last week [...]
Forty years ago, the business world was relatively stable. Long range planning was the sophisticated management practice of choice.
The company I worked for had them. We weren’t alone. According to management expert Carl Heyel, writing in 1973, by 1970, “80 percent to 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies engaged in some form of long-range planning.”
Most [...]
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
Groucho Marx
There are six important factors that most vendors won’t tell you about that directly impact of multi-rater feedback (see my last Blog for the first three). In Part II of this Blog I will continue to explore the last three in [...]
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
Groucho Marx
There are five important factors that most vendors won’t tell you about that directly impact of multi-rater feedback. In Part II of this Blog I will continue to explore the last three in more detail.
3. Perceptual distortions by participants and [...]
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot for the week. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about hiring picking up, a look at where development efforts are lagging, a look at the employee lifecycle concept, a review of several workplace issues, and helping [...]
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: culture, ethics, responsibility, accountability and the future – Part I
Competencies: visionary leadership, political leadership, engenders trust, ethics, employee involvement, empowering others
Who benefits: everyone
Consultant Usage: every consultant, trainer, and [...]