Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on the secret of workplace respect, managing high performers in a matrix, developing leaders, and long term development plans. There’s also a summer reading list for HR.
From Darcy Jacobson: The Secret to Respect in the Workplace
“Respect has gotten a lot of attention in the work environment lately, as it relates to equity, fairness and just getting along. In fact, I think most of us will agree a healthy level of respect is probably the most potent ingredient for workplace civility. But respect reaches much further than manners and compliance. It also plays a key role in recognition, engagement, and in creating a strong organizational culture.”
From Michelle M. Smith: 4 Steps to Enable Your New High Performers
“Work is now done through a web of collaborating knowledge where employees have more ambiguous objectives, and their work is interconnected with a growing, more dispersed network. Employees must navigate across different structures, cultures, and processes to perform, but they struggle to understand whom to work with and how to work with them.”
From Warren Bobrow: Are Good Leaders (mostly) Born or (mostly) Developed?
“It is the holy grail of managing leaders. If good leaders are born, then succession planning is really a selection issue. Once you identify key leadership characteristics, evaluate candidates on them, make your choices and then you are done. This makes leadership identification a very cost-effective process. If good leaders are primarily developed, then with the right training programs and experiences almost anyone can be an effective leader. However, it makes leadership development a very expensive process.”
From Dan McCarthy: Leadership Development as a 5 Year Journey
“Most IDPs are written for a one-year time horizon, sometimes even less. I’m wondering if that one-year default time-period needs to be challenged.”
Lists
From the SHRM Staff: Summer’s Top 12 HR Bestsellers
