By Mark Hannum - mylinkage.com Systems thinking has taught me that not all communication is good or productive and that who you talk to is just as important as what you say. In some ways, my father’s advice of “just go have a conversation” sums it...
By Quentin Millington - hrmagazine.co.uk In this last article of the series, I consider the demands placed on individual executives mandated to build high-performance cultures. Corporate culture, the patterns of tacit assumptions that emerge as groups in an organisation solve shared problems, is highly stable. Tough to...
By Howard J. Ross - mylinkage.com Where diversity is concerned, unconscious bias can create irrational circumstances where people make choices that seem to be driven by overt prejudice, even when they are not. Of course, there are still some cases where people are consciously hateful, hurtful, and...
By Chris Welford - hrmagazine.co.uk There’s a theory that we have four basic emotions: fear, anger, sadness and joy, the primary colours of emotional life. Putting joy aside as self-evidently a good thing, it’s hard to believe that anyone would deliberately try to invoke sadness or...
By Sharon Daniels - astd.org Specifically, cross-generational mentoring is a key strategy. With four generations, an influx of new employees, and more experienced professionals working longer hours, a greater variety of skills, talent, and experiences are represented in today's workforce than ever before. And as the...
By Katie Jacobs - hrmagazine.co.uk What will it take to restore the public’s confidence in the financial sector? HR directors have their work cut out to change what’s rotten at the heart of banking culture. Manhattan: a young investment banker spends his days making millions on Wall...
By Tina Smagala A recent study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity found that 85 percent of high-performing organizations use a “competency model” as the foundation for their leadership development strategy. Competencies are skills or abilities, such as decision making, driving results, managing change, developing others, customer...
Leadership development firm Zenger Folkman's recent study of a Silicon Valley software firm reveals companies are waiting too long to begin leadership programs. After spending much time, money, and effort in developing leaders when asked about the one thing they would do differently in the...
By Jennifer Robison, Gallup Business Journal - businessinsider.com The world's best companies purposely identify and develop high-potential managers and leaders. Because those with the right talent and experience are more likely to deliver results, businesses should begin their succession planning efforts by identifying and selecting leaders with a scientifically...
By Drew Hansen - forbes.com Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) President John Maeda believes that art and design will transform the economy in the 21st century the way science and technology did in the last century. I agree, and we need creative leaders—inspired by those principles—to...