“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.”
Mark Twain
How Healthy Are Employees?
I recently did an analysis of a random sample of over 1,000 working professionals in diverse industries who have used our personal stress and health assessment [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Motivation – New Insights
Competencies: motivation, managing others
Who benefits: those interested in understanding what motivates us
Consultant Usage: excellent material for training classes which address issues of employee motivation
What’s it about? My colleague Ken Nowack, who writes the other weekly column on this Blog, loves to present the “facts”. If you like [...]
“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 productivty1. Can leaders directly affect the health of talent to the extent that they are quickly [...]
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Title: The Impulse Factor: An Innovative Approach to Better Decision Making
Competency: decision making/judgment
Who benefits: everyone
Consultant Usage: accompanying Impulse Factor Test can assist executive coaches, career counselors, and trainers
What’s it about? Are you a risk manager or a potential seeker … or somewhere in between? Do you dawdle and agonize over every [...]
“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.”
Albert Einstein
One of my favorite motivational stories to tellis an adaption of the “starfish story” by Loren Eiseley and as many of you know popularized by Joel Barker. In the story, a man walking at the beach [...]
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Title: Institute of Management Studies
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: employees of large organizations
Consultant Usage: excellent source for recommending training programs
What’s it about? Last week I wrote about a specific program sponsored by the Institute of Management Studies (IMS). As I was thinking about it over the past seven days it occurs to me [...]
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save”
Will Rogers
If you have read my earlier posts on Ajax, the current guide dog puppy my wife and I are raising you will know of our commitment to this volunteer puppy raiser program we [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]