A year-long series for U.S. Business Review by Mark Brenner devoted to the challenges, easy wins and stakes associated with successful Talent Management. Read all 12 articles here.
What are the building blocks of a high-performance culture that genuinely engage people? Read the entire article here.
A thriving mentoring process requires an organizational culture that understands EQ and cultivates it first with its managers and executives. Read the entire article here.
To create a high-performance organization, learning leaders must focus on behavioral and interpersonal strategies. This always is accomplished one individual at a time. Read the entire article here.
The difference between success and failure is leadership. While a command and control (C&C) leadership style erodes performance and initiative, an engagement and empowerment (E&E) leadership style fosters development of innovative potential and drives high performance. Read the entire article here.
Why do so many change initiatives fail? Basically, there are two reasons, and they are simply different sides of the same coin. On one side is a misplaced belief in the power of the cognitive – the ability to persuade by rational thought. On the other side are psychological barriers. They are the unavoidable human defenses, whose purpose is to combat disruption head-on, and are launched whenever someone or something alters the status quo for an individual or an organization. Read the entire article here.
Without an impetus to change and grow, most executives probably won’t. Designing a process that maximizes the probability of achieving these changes is of the utmost importance. Once they see the need, they’ll make the necessary changes to excel. Read the entire article here.
To play a leading role in transforming organizations, HR must move beyond its transactional role to help create a performance-centric culture. Read the entire article here.
Many companies have embraced individual executive coaching and mentoring as key approaches to fuel their talent development initiatives. But these tools are not the only leadership development strategies available. Under certain business circumstances, they can even be imperfect solutions because they don’t address the real-world, group dynamics with which executives must contend. Read the entire article here.
Many companies have embraced individual executive coaching and mentoring as key approaches to fuel their talent development initiatives. But these tools are not the only leadership development strategies available.
It’s been said that one of the greatest challenges any business faces is growth. Perhaps more than any other aspect of running a business, growth requires consideration of an enormous number of objective and subjective elements, facts and unknowns, and things both within and outside of one’s control. Growth can be exciting, but few would describe it as inherently comfortable.
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Debra Fish participated in a panel discussion on board development at an Owen Entrepreneurship Center recent event. Asked to bring perspective on the interpersonal dynamics of corporate boards, Dr. Fish highlighted the importance of emotional intelligence over and above the more technical expertise on which most director searches are based.
Bob Drovdlic spoke in at IQPC's Talent Management Superconference, March 31-April 1, 2008. The agenda focused on "Linking Talent Management Strategies to Growth Strategies."
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The National Federation of Independent Business is the leading advocacy organization representing small and independent businesses. A recent article in their online magazine about avoiding turnover highlights Bob Drovdlic's expertise in strategic hiring.
tGCP's Mark Brenner & David Pellegrini highlight their expertise in two chapters of this ground-breaking guide for business owners.
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Mark Brenner and Roza Rojdev make the case for why organizations must manage their talent like they manage their investments.