Archive for the ‘Talent Development’ Category

Leadership in the Workplace: Back To School Basics For Small Business Owners

Business Seminar

Great leaders never stop learning

Great leaders are also great learners and in order to lead other individuals successfully, supervisors managers and business owners need to take part in strong leadership training programs.

Such programs should address such topics as listening and communicating effectively, giving negative feedback in a way …

Talent Is Top Priority for CEOs, Overtaking Managing Risk

How talented are your employees?

According to findings from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) 14th annual Global CEO survey, managing talent has eclipsed risk as CEOs’ top priority:

  • Approximately 83 percent of the 1,200 CEOs queried from 69 countries intend to change their firm’s talent management strategy over the next year, and

Developing Millennials into Future Leadership


Next Generation of Leaders

Employees from Generation Y, often characterized by an enthusiasm for networking and collaboration, are often stereotyped as know-it-alls. However, recent articles indicate that 18-to-29-year-olds remain enthusiastic and optimistic, with a desire to develop in the workforce.

While many Gen X middle managers have been trained and …

Great Companies Take Time to Develop Great Leaders

 

Improving business results

 

New research from Hay Group provides empirical evidence that the best companies have the best leaders. In its sixth annual assessment of the impact of leadership recruitment, training and management style on corporate success, the U.S. global management company offers a top 20 list that …

People Are Different — but Shouldn’t Be

Building Leadership

Building Leadership

While most business leaders say people are their company’s most important asset, and most human resource departments keep data on things like:

  • Turnover
  • Performance Distributions
  • Employee Engagement

Few are applying the kind of metrics that finance executives use, says John Boudreau of the University of Southern California’s Marshall

Quantifying the Value of Effective Leadership

Value of Leadership

A recent research program at Kenexa looked at what causes employees to view their leaders as effective. The program enabled researchers to create the leadership effectiveness index, a new metric that measures the extent to which employees believe their leaders communicate their vision, handle challenges, value employees, …