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Talent Management Strategy and Successful Organizations
Clearly any talent management strategy for a business must encompass a wealth of factors that ebb and flow in importance based on an even greater set of influences and outside factors. This is evident in Deloitte’s latest report on Talent Management, Talent Edge 2020, which we tweeted yesterday, and which holds fascinating findings based on…
Lire la suiteGoal Setting with Impact
Goals and objectives can be like an exercise routine or a gym membership. For those of us who are committed regulars, the process can be a bit routine and rote, but at least we are checking in regularly. Then there are those of us who start with the best intentions, set a great plan, but…
Lire la suiteMaking Your Employees Idea Generators
How does your organization get at ideation? Does your organization even know what ideation truly is? Ideation (according to Wikipedia) is the process of generating ideas, communicating those ideas, and developing the ideas to fruition. So what does that really mean? Well, firstly, it means something different than innovation—that business buzzword catchall for creativity, idea…
Lire la suiteWorkplace Assessments- and How to Make Them Actually Work
When it comes to assessment, companies look to review every aspect of the organization, some using a comb with fine enough teeth to catch every minute detail. P&L statements, earnings reports, revenue numbers, and other financial elements are scrutinized (and rightfully so) to an incredible degree. But what about assessing the very generators of these…
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George Bernard Shaw (pictured), famous playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature winner, once said, « The greatest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place. » How true. I was reflecting on a blog entry from the Harvard Business Review when I came across the quote above. As I thought deeper, I came to…
Lire la suiteManaging Energy Not Time
Recently, I was reading “The Productivity Paradox” by Tony Schwartz on Harvard Business Review and it was something of a revelation to me. Every day we hear people struggling with time management but what about the idea of managing energy not time? Tony Schwartz is the CEO of The Energy Project and one of the…
Lire la suiteOrganizational Development: How to See Your OD in 3D
Organizational development – OD for short – is a term that I’m not sure many business leaders fully understand. Outside of a training and development or human resources context, OD can take the form of broad mandates or ideas around general improvement in the way an organization runs. But, in reality, OD takes into account…
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Recently, I had an interesting conversation with a friend about leadership. He started by asking me how I thought leadership should be defined. What is leadership? What is a leader? I’ve heard many definitions – some rather thought-provoking and some rather laughable. Either way, one thing is quite clear – for a leader to lead,…
Lire la suiteUse Your Head – Team Building Activities for Work
Usually when we hear the phrase “Use your head” it harkens us back to our mothers imploring us to act rationally or think logically. I’m thinking about this phrase in a different context though; when I say “Use Your Head” I’m literally talking about unlocking brain power in the way we work and the way…
Lire la suiteThe Importance and Value of Setting Business Goals
Inc. Magazine ran this article regarding the importance of setting business goals and its effects on a business. In this article, it is stated that “More than 80 percent of the 300 small business owners surveyed in the recent 4th Annual Staples National Small Business Survey said that they don’t keep track of their business…
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