14 Posts found for Author: Peter Cheese

The new business environment will favor those companies able to execute strategy faster, with more flexibility and adaptability, and move their companies ahead briskly.

Content: Article | Authors: David Y. Smith, Peter Cheese, Yaarit Silverstone | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Historically, there is a significant increase in the number of executives leaving their companies as market conditions improve and more job opportunities open up. Accenture research shows that executives tend to stay longest with those companies that offer the greatest opportunities to enhance their employability. By providing the three opportunities that executives want most, companies will be in a better position not only to retain … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Elizabeth Craig, John R. Kimberly, Peter Cheese | Sources: Accenture, Wall Street Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

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The objective at the heart of successful talent management in difficult times: to think ahead and to think more strategically about creating a workforce with the capabilities to outperform the competition as the economy turns around. A number of fresh approaches are available to help companies go beyond responses focused only on staff reductions.

Content: Article | Authors: Alan Gibbons, Catherine Farley, Peter Cheese | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subject: Human Resources

The seventh and final chapter of The Talent Powered Organization maps out a talent agenda that is based on the five imperatives set out in the preceding chapters, and which will advance progress toward achieving high performance. The agenda is strategic and long-term, presenting a “call to action” to an organization’s leadership as a primary audience, but also to other stakeholders, reiterating that talent management … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Elizabeth Craig, Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subject: Human Resources

In this sixth chapter of The Talent Powered Organization, the authors explain the importance of understanding and measuring how talent contributes to an organization’s performance. Once that is understood, it is clear that everyone in an organization must be involved in multiplying talent—from top leaders to HR, to line managers, to employees. Therefore, the second part of this chapter focuses on the need to:

* Maintain … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Elizabeth Craig, Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subject: Human Resources

Leaders aren’t good merely at decision making. In a multi-polar world, “CEO” also stands for “chief education officer.” A stumbling point for many organizations on a major change journey is that the top level of management has often moved on emotionally toward the new destination before many others have even started on the journey.

An effective CEO needs to step back and bring people along, to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Peter Cheese, Walter G. Gossage, Yaarit Silverstone | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Management

In this fifth chapter of The Talent Powered Organization, the authors address the question of engagement which, they argue, is the engine of the modern organization and a prerequisite for high performance.

Engagement – that is, the extent to which employees take responsibility for the organization’s goals – is the “magic” ingredient that lifts performance above that of a peer organization. This quality is highly measurable … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Elizabeth Craig, Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Chapter 4 of The Talent Powered Organization turns the reader’s attention to talent development and talent deployment as key organizational capabilities of talent-powered organizations that support talent multiplication and competitiveness.

Accenture High Performance Business research shows that few companies are achieving high performance in learning and skills development of their workforces. Indeed, the nature of skills required by modern business is changing, and with it the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Elizabeth Craig, Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

In the global competition for talent, some companies may view the endgame as a matter of adding the right individuals. But the key to winning on talent is multiplication, not addition. Companies that build this critical capability will generate superior effort, creativity and results from their workforces.

Content: Article | Authors: Elizabeth Craig, Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources

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At today’s leading organizations, executives in pursuit of high performance are becoming more sophisticated in the way they make investments in workforce services and employee development-which means targeting the key workforces most critical to their strategic goals.

Content: Article | Authors: Christian Marchetti, Ellen M. Balaguer, Peter Cheese | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subject: Human Resources

Recent surveys reveal that although business executives firmly believe that people are the most important asset, most executives are at a loss to prove that investments in people lead to improved business results. Common metrics like economic value added (EVA™) and return on investment (ROI) shed little light on how an organization’s human assets are performing. They say even less about whether an organization’s people … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: James M. Benton, Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subject: Organizational Behavior

A new diagnostic tool can not only demonstrate conclusively the link between human capital development practices and total shareholder return. It can also provide practical guidance for which investments are likely to yield the greatest return.

Content: Article | Authors: Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior