March 4, 2015 by Wally Bock
“Should the ‘Ship’ Sail on Leadership Development?“ Julie Winkle Giulioni isn’t suggesting that developing leaders is a bad idea. She’s asking if a small shift in thought and language would make things better. Here’s the money quote. “Leadership development in many organizations is a function, a set of processes and activities aimed at turning out […]
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March 2, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.†Unknown Getting people and leaders to change is pretty important—particularly enhancing behaviors associated with increased effectiveness. The “magnitude†of change or […]
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March 1, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.” Steven Wright Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. According to the CIPD/Halogen Software Employee Outlook survey, 33% of employees in the public sector stated they believed their organization’s […]
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February 27, 2015 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about planning a leadership development journey, building culture bridges to develop a new generation of […]
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February 25, 2015 by Wally Bock
Leadership development in hope and myth Leadership development is about preparing men and women to lead organizations both now and in the future. We’re not exactly sure what the future will be, so, by gosh, we’re going to equip future leaders with every possible skillset. They will be masters of communication and crisis management. They […]
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February 23, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.” Groucho Marx There are six important factors that most vendors won’t tell you about that directly impact the effectiveness and success of multi-rater feedback (see my last Blog for the first three). In Part II of this Blog I will continue to explore […]
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February 22, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“It’s easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that’s the hard part. “ Casey Stengel One of the things our company has done for the last 20 years is to identify potential leaders using developmental assessment centers ((Nowack, K. (1997). Congruence Between Self and Other Ratings and Assessment Center Performance. Journal of Social Behavior […]
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February 20, 2015 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about why most HR data is bad, people analytics, who leaders need to be, and […]
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February 18, 2015 by Wally Bock
Leadership development is not immune from the hype. The latest “magical” cure-all for whatever ails your company is Big Data. Here’s one recent statement about how this will work: “we want to ensure that we make decisions around employee selection, development and separation based on criteria that we know matters – because we have correlated […]
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February 16, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“The real secret of magic lies in the performance.” David Copperfield Multi-rater or 360-degree feedback, was used by approximately 90% of Fortune 500 companies last year. Under ideal circumstances, 360-degree feedback should be used as an assessment for professional development, rather than, evaluation ((Nowack, K. (2009). Leveraging Multirater Feedback to Facilitate Successful Behavioral Change. Consulting […]
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