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Corporate alumni networks are an increasingly valuable resource for employees and employers alike.

Content: Article | Author: Kate O’Sullivan | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Human Resources

In pursuit of leadership talent, organizations tend to hire for knowledge, train for skills, develop for judgment – and hope for wisdom. When wisdom does not materialize, they are forced to hire it.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Training & Development

In addition to compensation that reflects the market, companies need to focus on what I call the “Three Ms”… Mastery, Membership and Meaning. They have to offer people Mastery, that is challenging jobs, where they have a chance to grow their skills; they have to offer Membership, which is a feeling of belonging to a community and of being treated as a whole person with … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Tommy Lasorda, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, and the list goes on. These days, there’s no shortage of self-help gurus eager to motivate your employees. Unfortunately, the companies just as anxious to hire them are victims of an extraordinary sham. The Self-Help and Actualization Movement, as author Steve Salerno explains in SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless (Crown), consists of countless authors, motivational speakers, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Vadim Liberman | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

For future business leaders, the state of business, and our country, we need to get beyond seeing diversity as just achieving the desired profile-whether it be racial, a gender balance, or even a certain age mixture. We assume that if we get rid of all of the “isms” -racism, sexism, and so forth-that everything will be okay. Wrong. If you don’t know how to manage … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Diversity

Gallup has been researching top-performing leaders for more than 40 years. One crucial discovery has been that top performance is strongly correlated to seven main leadership activities or “demands.” Those demands are: visioning, maximizing values, challenging experience, mentoring, building a constituency, making sense of experience, and knowing self.

Focusing each leader’s growth on the seven demands can accelerate leadership development. This artcle outlines the seven … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Barry Conchie, Jerry Hadd | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership

We act as if diversity training is a shot to protect you from the measles, rather than preparation to allow you to go out and address diversity effectively. Most of what’s done under the rubric of diversity training is fundamentally awareness training. One of the big challenges we have is getting people beyond awareness.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

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Many a business has fallen in love with the idea that the best way to get people to do things well is to have them compete with one another.That mindset derives from a sloppy sports analogy: People run faster if they run against someone else. That may be true for track, but when it comes to learning, people learn best when they’re operating in a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Management, Motivation

Traditionally, corporate boards have left leadership planning and development up to their CEOs and human resources departments primarily because they don’t perceive that a lack of leadership development in their companies poses the same kind of threat that accounting blunders or missed earnings do. This article explains what makes a successful leadership development program, based on their research over the past few years with companies … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jeffrey M. Cohn, Laura Reeves, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Did you vote your boss into the corner office? If not, perhaps your boss is a dictator. Chetan Dhruve explains why bosses become dictators.

Editor’s Note: I had some real issues with this manifesto, but the point of ChangeThis is to offer thought-provoking, even controversial, papers so I have added it – read for yourself and decide…

Content: Article | Author: Chetan Dhruve | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

There is much evidence that being upbeat rather than unhappy, or optimistic rather than pessimistic, is a personality characteristic that is stable throughout one’s life. One study that followed people over a 50-year period, for example, showed that having an upbeat personality as an adolescent was a strong predictor of job satisfaction decades later. Hiring such upbeat people is one of the best ways to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

While financial returns may be a good measure of how well executives are managing the company’s existing assets, they do not accurately reflect executive performance in areas with deferred returns-for example, strategic planning, growth opportunities, business initiatives, or investments in the discovery and development of new products and technologies. It is clear, then, that incentive plans based solely on accounting measures can induce senior management … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Compensation, Corporate Governance

Hiring managers have all but ignored standard IQ, but they remain the best predictor of managerial success. Here is how to design an interview that uncovers executive intelligence.

Content: Article | Author: Justin Menkes | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Human Resources

A person who works exclusively in staff jobs throughout a career is less likely to develop important leadership competencies than a person who works exclusively in line jobs (or in a combination of staff and line jobs). Life as a staff professional is developmentally impoverished. The consequences of having developmentally deprived staff professionals are serious. It means it is more difficult to find strong staff … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Michael M. Lombardo, Robert W. Eichinger | Source: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

1. Create an Interview Plan
2. Set the Stage for Being at Ease
3. Assume the Best
4. Be Objective
5. Tread lightly with trick or trendy questions
6. Encourage Balance
7. Review the CV Last
8. Schedule a Half Hour Between Candidates
9. If Possible, Take Notes
10. Make Time for Questions and Information

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Content: Article | Author: Helen Kelly | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Human Resources

The mistake organizations frequently make is to use training and development as a damage control strategy to shore up the weaknesses of those who are not doing well. That is a mistake. It’s a bad use of corporate assets. Training and development need to be directed towards the best performers, i.e. to polish diamonds not polish coal.

Content: Quotation | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Human Resources, Training & Development

You can close this performance gap between what workers actually do and what they can potentially do. The answer lies in measurement, tracking, recognition, involvement and evaluation. These five elements form the basis for any effective performance management program. The author has developed and implemented in many companies a system called “P.R.I.D.E.” that integrates these five cornerstones of performance management.

Content: Article | Author: Charles D. Kerns, Ph.D. | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

While the full story of the next economy and beyond has yet to be written, it is clear that the winners in the future economic environment will be those companies and individuals best able to learn quickly the skills required to thrive in the emerging business climate. This report focuses on two competency areas that are believed to be critical: leadership and management competencies, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Tom Atkinson | Source: Forum | Subjects: Human Resources, Industry Specific | Industry: Education / Training

People are the most valuable asset in today’s fiercely competitive workplace. In HIRING SMART Dr. Mornell delineates 45 simple strategies for “people reading” – observing a candidate’s behavior and predicting what they’ll be like in the workplace – that virtually guarantee hiring the best possible candidate for any job.

Content: Book | Author: Pierre Mornell | Subject: Human Resources