By Joelle K. Jay - fastcompany.com When it comes to leadership development, a focus on women is all the rage. As an executive coach working with senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies, I have seen a noticeable uptick in the interest in developing female leaders. Companies are...
By Dr. John Sullivan, HR author and thought leader - recruitingtrends.com A key goal of nearly every recruiting leader and staff member is to be recognized by corporate executives as providing a major contribution to executing the corporate strategic plan and its goals. After decades of...
By Janie Smith - hcamag.com Does employee gender influence the kind of feedback you provide in performance reviews? You might not think so, but a recent survey has shown that managers in technology companies tend to talk differently to female employees than they do to males workers. In...
Workforce 2020 By Mike Ettling - diginomica.com Today’s workplace is the most diverse work environment the world has ever seen. It’s the most multi-generational, with up to five different generations working together – each with different skills, experiences, work habits and motivations. More of our workers are...
By Arvind Hickman - hrmagazine.co.uk New flexible working legislation could radically change the world of business. But what are the challenges and opportunities for HR? Flexible working, whether it’s in the form of part-time hours or working remotely, is not only gaining in popularity, but has now...
By Karen Higginbottom - forbes.com It’s tough to find an effective leader in the workplace. Only 40% of leaders rated their organization’s leadership as high, according to a global survey of 13,124 leaders and 1,528 human resource professionals by talent management consultancy DDI and the Conference...
By Claudio Fernández-Aráoz - hrmagazine.co.uk Past experience is no longer the only indicator of future potential. Flexibility is the key to executive recruitment and talent management Several years ago, I worked with Harvard Business School and my Egon Zehnder colleagues to gauge how three factors – globalisation,...
By Jessica Kleiman - forbes.com An important part of being a leader is being credible – credibility is derived from your character and your competence. — U.S. Marines Captain Angie Morgan I recently attended a one-day leadership conference hosted by The Quorum Initiative, a selective group of high-level corporate...
By Cathy Benko and Erica Volini - blogs.hbr.org In the July/August issue of HBR, Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration, led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy, led by...
By Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman - hbr.org A few weeks ago, we were asked to analyze a competency model for leadership development that a client had created. Its was based on the idea that at different points in their development, potential leaders need to focus...