“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
John Lennon
Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think?
1. “Most of the investment in organizational training and development is wasted because most of the knowledge and skills gained (well over 80% by some estimates) are [...]
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Title: book titles from Hell
Competency: sense of humor
Who benefits: those who need a laugh
Consultant Usage: entertain your friends
What’s it about? Being as this is the time honored day of acknowledging Fools, I thought a day of wacky book titles might be in order!
Writing for this Blog takes me on some strange [...]
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
John Wooden
Coaching has been around as long as anyone can really remember. Executives have always had trusted advisors, mentors, Board Members and outside confidants to help them succeed. Mostly it has been informal but in the last few [...]
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Title: public speaking
Competency: oral presentations
Who benefits: those who make oral presentation or public presentations
Consultant Usage: self-development or coaching tool
What’s it about? One of my all time favorite opinion polls was conducted many years ago by a major newspaper in London. Can’t remember which one, but never could forget the results. The poll [...]
Making sense of what occurs in human systems or how they change or the most effective way to lead them or which design is most productive is fraught with difficulty. Yet, nothing is more important in today’s world for creating healthy organizations and healthy people. Because we lack a lot of convincing evidence, based on [...]
“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.”
Ara Parasheghian
I really wanted to believe that Santa Claus was real.
I really wanted to believe the tooth fairy was the Federal Reserve.
I really wanted to believe that leaders are made and not born.
I really wanted to believe that coaching [...]
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Title: A Primer in Positive Psychology
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: any individual
Consultant Usage: important background material for all HRD consultants
What’s it about? I woke up grumpy this morning. Didn’t sleep well. Blah, blah, blah. So am I going be Captain Grumps for 16 hours and take it out on those I come in [...]
“The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.”
Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers
It’s not surprising that research suggests Unequivocally that leadership has tremendous impact on talent engagement, retention and productivity1. Can leaders directly affect the health of talent to the extent that they are quickly [...]
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Title: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Competencies: self-development, coaching talent, mentoring, empowering others, performance management, creativity, innovation
Who benefits: individuals, supervisors and managers, coaches
Consultant Usage: highly recommended for executive coaches
What’s it about? Today, dear reader, you shall be treated to an extremely short posting reviewing a new book.
The book is [...]
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
Joyce Brothers
I just read a research paper that suggested that marriage might not improve men’s health as once thought1. In a review of data gathered between 1972 and 2003 (more than one million men and women), men who never married reported overall health about [...]