April 18, 2010 by Ken Nowack
“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it†Charles Kettering A growing research literature suggests that emotional intelligence (EI) may play an important role in career success and job performance above that of personality and cognitive ability (incremental ability). For example, a meta-analysis of 69 […]
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April 15, 2010 by Wally Bock
Every week, I’ll be reviewing blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot for the week. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about hoarding talent, pay-for-performance and ratingless performance systems, talent development coming out of the recession, ways to waste money on people practices, and how top companies […]
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April 14, 2010 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Financial Intelligence Competencies: self-development, financial leadership, entrepreneurial leadership Who benefits: career oriented employees, supervisors and managers, all executives; HR professionals, IT professionals, entrepreneurs Consultant Usage: important background information for organizational consultants, executive coaches What’s it about? This site supports financial leadership and entrepreneurial leadership as organizational competencies. Unfortunately we […]
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April 11, 2010 by Ken Nowack
“Don’t Confuse Facts with Reality.†Robert Ballard 1.  According to a survey conducted at the 2009 World Economic Forum, 12% of the respondents said an inadequately trained workforce was a barrier in doing business in the U.S. This figure was 9.9 in the UK, 6.2 in China and 4.8 in India. 2. A survey of […]
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April 7, 2010 by Bill Bradley
“For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.“ Winston Churchill,1954 HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: The King of Optimism Competency: self-development Who benefits: you Consultant Usage: all forms of coaching and career counseling; interesting stories to quote in training classes What’s it about? Before […]
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March 31, 2010 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Motivation – New Insights Competencies: motivation, managing others Who benefits: those interested in understanding what motivates us Consultant Usage: excellent material for training classes which address issues of employee motivation What’s it about? My colleague Ken Nowack, who writes the other weekly column on this Blog, loves to present […]
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March 24, 2010 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: The Impulse Factor: An Innovative Approach to Better Decision Making Competency: decision making/judgment Who benefits: everyone Consultant Usage: accompanying Impulse Factor Test can assist executive coaches, career counselors, and trainers What’s it about? Are you a risk manager or a potential seeker … or somewhere in between? Do you […]
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March 17, 2010 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Institute of Management Studies Competency: self-development Who benefits: employees of large organizations Consultant Usage: excellent source for recommending training programs What’s it about? Last week I wrote about a specific program sponsored by the Institute of Management Studies (IMS). As I was thinking about it over the past seven […]
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March 14, 2010 by Ken Nowack
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save” Will Rogers If you have read my earlier posts on Ajax, the current guide dog puppy my wife and I are raising you will know of our commitment to this volunteer puppy raiser program […]
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March 10, 2010 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Transitioning to Management: Leading Professional and Expert-Based Groups Competencies: leadership, career development Who benefits: specialists in or transitioning to leadership roles, bosses and coaches of specialists Consultant Usage: executive and career development coaches What’s it about? Today’s posting is a follow-up to my colleague/boss Ken Nowack’s wonderfully insightful post […]
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