June 4, 2013 by Wally Bock
How the mighty have fallen. In 2009, P & G’s “Build from Within” system was described as a “leadership machine.” Moheet Nagrath, P&G’s global human resources officer, told a Fortune reporter that “Today I could show you the next generation of successors to current leaders, the generation after that, and the generation after that.” But […]
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May 30, 2013 by Wally Bock
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 about managers as coaches, what bothers Chief Learning Officers, surveys on employment trends, and how to improve recruiting. From Dan McCarthy: Can a Manager be a Coach? “Can […]
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May 28, 2013 by Wally Bock
Companies want profitability. Engagement drives profitability, so companies want more engagement. But what drives engagement? i4cp has studied this and they outline their findings in the report, “Employee Engagement: Strategies and Practices.” The blog post announcing the study offers “10 Steps to Rev Up Employee Engagement.” Number six strikes a chord with me. It’s “Focus […]
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May 23, 2013 by Wally Bock
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 about hiring new grads, a recruiting dilemma, talent management in the Great Reset, the sources of performance problems, and problems filling the pipeline. From Elli Sharef and Nick […]
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May 21, 2013 by Wally Bock
I’ve been spending some time with i4cp’s report, Accelerating High-Potential Employees on the Path to Leadership. It’s the kind of document that you read, mull over what you’ve read and read some more. The part I’ve been reading lately is about using high profile stretch assignments in leadership development. Here’s a key quote from the […]
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May 16, 2013 by Wally Bock
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 about online hiring tools, talent poaching, onboarding, what to do after the talent review, and retaining top talent. From the NY Times: Online Hiring Tools Are Changing Recruiting […]
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May 14, 2013 by Wally Bock
“You don’t know how good you’ve got it!” I almost said that. I was chatting with a young friend. I wasn’t thinking about how tough it was, walking in my bare feet through the snow to school, uphill both ways. I was thinking about coaching, or rather the lack of it in my day. My […]
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May 9, 2013 by Wally Bock
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 redesigning your leadership development program, recruiting, why human-capital-smart manufacturers outperform their peers, and big data in hiring. From Charlotte Hughes: Do You Need To Redesign Your Leadership […]
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May 7, 2013 by Wally Bock
For me, it was all about pinball. Video games were far in the future. There weren’t computers for the masses, so there wasn’t even pong. But there was pinball. I spent an awful lot of time standing in front of a pinball machine, feeding it nickels, flipping the flippers, watching the ball, and listening to […]
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May 2, 2013 by Wally Bock
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 agile learning, how big data is influencing recruiting, rethinking the workplace, creating your own succession plan, and three cutting edge talent management practices from Silicon Valley. From […]
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