Posts Tagged ‘succession planning’
Why Your People Strategy Should Focus on Employee Development
Most companies have a business strategy, or a “strategic plan,” but far fewer have a people strategy. That’s kind of ironic because how can an organization have any confidence in their strategic plan if they don’t know whether they will have enough of the right people to execute that plan? There are three primary goals…
Read MoreHow to Predict Leadership Potential
Imagine if you could look into a crystal ball to know for certain who has what it takes to be a great leader. Think of how many hiring and promotion mistakes could be avoided? Consider the impact on your workforce if you only hired and promoted people to management and senior management positions who were top…
Read More3 Essential Elements of a Learning Organization
Do you know someone who has had many experiences that should have taught them something (humility, money management, stop dating losers, etc.) but they haven’t learned it? Easy, right? We can all point to people who haven’t learned from their experiences. Now what if I asked you, “What changes have you made in the last…
Read MoreWhen is the Right Time to Start a Big People Project?
“Now isn’t the right time.” As a leadership development consultant, I’ve heard that phrase more than you can imagine. I help organizations of all sizes to implement a process to continually develop their people. That’s no small undertaking. It’s not surprising that business leaders are a little hesitant about jumping headlong into a project that…
Read MoreWhy Some Leaders Become Legendary, And How You Can Too!
If I asked you to name some legendary leaders, who do you think of? You might think of people like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Jesus, or the Dalai Lama, among others. Each of these leaders became legendary because, like the metaphorical pebble thrown in the pond, their influence is…
Read MoreIs Your Company Ready for the Impending Grey Tsunami?
“The sky is falling!” “The sky is falling!” You know the story—Chicken Little gets hit on the head by an acorn, hemistakenly believes that the sky is falling, and then he runs around hysterically warning others of an impending disaster that never happens. Likewise, for the last decade or more you may have also…
Read MoreThe Career Coach Model: A Proven Shortcut To World-Class People Development
What business leader wouldn’t want their company to be thought of as the Google of their industry? Brilliant people lining up to get a job… soaring stock price… the company that everyone’s chasing. Ahh, what a dream! You can stop dreaming now because there’s something quite simple you can do to help get you there.…
Read MoreLet Your People Out Of Job Boxes! Use Trello To Fit Jobs To People.
Have you ever considered how much time your staff are spending on tasks that should be done by someone being paid half as much? In fact, how much of your own work could be done by others to free you up to do the high value, strategic work you never seem to have time for?…
Read More6 Essential Leadership Qualities
Since the dawn of the industrial revolution the most common criteria for promoting people to leadership positions has primarily been their technical ability. Naturally, new managers tend to do the things that got them promoted, that is, they do the most challenging work themselves and leave the leftover tasks to less technically competent workers (those…
Read MoreSurprise! You’re a Mentor.
Whether you know it or not, people are watching you. They’re learning from you and trying to infer the motives of your actions. Now, if you’re a leader, its safe to assume that others are watching you about five times more closely than they normally would—dissecting, analyzing, and categorizing everything you say and do, as…
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