April 13, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Reader Responses Competencies: managing self, self-development Who benefits: all of us Consultant Usage: not so much this week What’s it about? Last week I did a review of a post on a Blog created by Tony Schwartz. As a recap, I used this quote from his post: “Do you […]
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April 10, 2011 by Ken Nowack
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. Research from George Washington University suggests that the annual cost of being obese is $4,879.00 for […]
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April 7, 2011 by Yosh Beier
As recently reported by the New York Times, Google unleashed its analytical power in-house as a part of Google’s management effectiveness project. Putting its data mining experts to work, Google dug through thousands of performance reviews and other forms of data evaluating managers’ effectiveness in its “quest to build a better bossâ€. (NY Times, Mar-12-2011) […]
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April 6, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: 30 Things We Need — and 30 We Don’t Competency: self-development Who benefits: all of us Consultant Usage: Interesting talking points for executive and career coaches; possible discussion topics for management and interpersonal training programs What’s it about? Tony Schwartz writes very interesting posts on his Blog. This one […]
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April 3, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.†John Bryant Sometimes we take our ability to truly be “in the moment” for granted and spend more time living in the past which is gone and worrying about the future which hasn’t come yet. A few weeks ago […]
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March 30, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: My Personal Best Competencies: self-development, team building, interpersonal/intrapersonal skills, achievement orientation, self-control, building trust Who benefits: any individual, coaches, team facilitators and team leaders, managers and supervisors, teenagers Consultant Usage: training related to emotional intelligence, team building, one-on-one coaching What’s it about? My bosses recently gave me my bi-annual performance […]
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March 20, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness†Richard Carlson Perceptions of stress at work are quite high with several recent studies by Envisia Learning Inc. suggesting that 40% to 65% of all executives and employees rate their jobs as being very or extremely stressful with significant impact on work/family balance […]
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March 13, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Why join the Navy if you can be a pirate?” Steve Jobs For over 40 years, one robust theory of career choice has been based on the idea that choice of vocation is really an expression of personality (Holland, 1973). A person can be described as having interests associated with each of six personlity types […]
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March 11, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quote of the Week: Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary Humor Break: Little known fact about Compensation Practices: Your pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just […]
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March 9, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Who knew? Competencies: creativity, innovation, managing self, problem solving, communications, self-development Who benefits: any reader of this Blog Consultant Usage: useful quotes in training and consulting situations What’s it about? I have been researching famous people and famous quotes recently. I kept coming across quotes from Albert Einstein. It […]
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