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 bench strength, talent management at UPS, when to start thinking about “selling” the hire, treating star performers like star performers, and the leader as talent spotter.
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“Make each day your masterpiece” John Wooden
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: The Best Coach Ever
Competencies: leadership, coaching talent, achievement, teamwork, team development, team building, trustworthiness, vision/goal setting, collaboration, decision-making, judgment, managing self, self-control, self-development
Who benefits: all of us, including young children and teens
Consultant Usage: especially useful for executive coaches, team facilitators/trainers and trainers of leadership, [...]
Phillip is an engineer. His company has a lot of them and he’s right in the middle of the pack. You’d never know he was a star.
Florence is an admin assistant. If you look on the org chart or the formal performance evaluations, you’ll see that Florence is competent and hardworking, but nothing special. You’d [...]
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save”
Will Rogers
You know from my earlier Blogs about our guide dog in training Ajax that my wife and I have been involved in a wonderful volunteer program in California called Guide Dogs of [...]
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 succession planning, the view from inside the pipeline, studies of engagement, flex time and Gen Y, and the Talent Management Paradox.
From the Employee Performance and Talent [...]
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Title: What It Takes to Make ‘Star’ Hires Pay Off
Competency: talent management
Who benefits: managers and supervisors of high potential new hires
Consultant Usage: very useful article for employee relations and compensation consultants, good background for career counselors
What’s it about? “Many companies hire top-notch talent but then fail to reap the full benefits [...]
Want to make a difference in your bottom line? How about your long term competitive advantage?
Well, you can probably do it, if you’ll just spend some time and resources on who you promote to your first line supervisory positions. They’re important. And you don’t have to take my word for it.
In 2005, Fast Company interviewed [...]
“In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.”
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Getting people and leaders to change is pretty important—particularly enhancing behaviors associated with increased effectiveness.
The “magnitude” of change or “degree” of change [...]
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 talent intelligence, metrics, a defense of the performance review, and ten ways to make a performance review meaningful.
From HRM Today: Talent Intelligence
“Among the excellent essays in [...]
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Title: Better, but not easy, time management
Competencies: time management, teamwork, team leadership
Who benefits: employees at any level, team leaders
Consultant Usage: good stories for trainers and coaches of time management
What’s it about? Came across a couple of blogs lately that focused on time management both at the individual level and the team [...]