September 6, 2011 by Ken Nowack
When: September 9, 2011 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM New Location Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, LLP 11377 West Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles, CAÂ 90064 West Tower, Rm. 1031 Warning: Feedback Might Be Dangerous to Your Health Presented by Ken Nowack Within 1/5th of a second, our brain can recognize harm and danger in social interactions […]
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September 4, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” Aaron Levenstein  Another edition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. Hooray for U.S. work ethics! According to he Center for American progress in 2010, 86 […]
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August 21, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation’s golf courses.†Ira Wallace Vacations and Health How likely, on average, do you take the full vacation time allotted to you by your organization in a year? Never Seldom Sometimes Often Always If you answered never, seldom or sometimes you might […]
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August 14, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess† Mark Twain One of the things I’ve learned being a volunteer puppy raiser of guide dogs for the blind is about giving feedback. With guide dog puppies, you […]
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August 7, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment” Bill Walsh What would you say to someone if you knew that your honest feedback to a person could influence and motivate this individual to make or not to make a $3 million gift or donation to a […]
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July 31, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“I deal with temptation by yielding to it†Mark Twain I Bet You Can’t Stop Reading this Blog Still reading? We know a lot about the attribute of delayed gratification from the classic “marshmallow” study by Walter Mischel who followed children tempted to either sit at a table with one marshmallow in front of them to take […]
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July 24, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?” Bill Watterson Is Leadership Training a Waste of Time (and Money)? A fairly recent State of the Industry Report by the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) estimates that companies in the US spent over $125 billion on employee learning and development in 2010. That figure includes […]
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July 17, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” Aaron Levenstein More Talent Management Facts #18 Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. Recent statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor shows women now […]
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July 10, 2011 by Ken Nowack
 “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.†Oscar Wilde Did anybody read the U.S. Labor Department’s jobs report this week which showed the U.S. economy created only 18,000 jobs last month and unemployment is still about 9 percent? This statistic is more important than most economists (and stock traders) […]
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July 9, 2011 by Ken Nowack
By Kyle Lagunas, HR Market Analyst, Software Advice UCLA Anderson School of Management Professor Samuel Culbert argues in his article, Get Rid of the Performance Review, that reviews are “little more than a dysfunctional pretense.â€Â What Culbert fails to distinguish, however, is that some reviews are better executed than others. Performance reviews are not innately […]
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