October 5, 2012 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: “Sure telecommuting is great. Until you realize you’ve got nothing but moldy cheese in the refrigerator for lunch, you’re way out of the gossip loop and you never get the Friday afternoon back-slaps.â€Â […]
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October 4, 2012 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 retention, low-balling candidates, expensive recruiting, and professional assessment tools. From HR Morning: Work-Life Fit and Enjoying What They Do Top the List of retention reasons “Maybe this […]
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October 3, 2012 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Can a Great Leader be an Asshole? Competency: leadership Who benefits: those interested in leadership traits and characteristics Consultant Usage: executive coaches, those involved in 360 degree feedback, leadership trainers What’s it about? Today’s debate is “Can a Great Leader be an Asshole?â€. At the moment of this writing […]
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October 2, 2012 by Wally Bock
“Would you mentor me?” That question in an email from someone I’d never heard of or from jarred me. For someone who came up when I did, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that was like a marriage proposal when you’ve never been on a date. In those days, a mentor might seek you […]
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September 28, 2012 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: “There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.â€Â Will Rogers (Editorial aside: This is especially true in an election year.) Humor […]
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September 27, 2012 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 career development, three reasons you’re losing people because of pay, video interviewing, and data and personality tests in recruiting. From Julie Winkle Giulioni: Building the Organizational Habit […]
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September 26, 2012 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Who Attends a Universal University? Competency: self-development Who benefits: learners of all ages Consultant Usage: performance management coaches and career counselors What’s it about? Today I continue to rave about Coursera, the Online University for everyone. I am taking a course entitled “The History of the World Since 1300.â€Â […]
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September 25, 2012 by Wally Bock
One of the truly interesting things to cross my screen recently is the Deloitte report, “Talent 2020: Surveying the talent paradox from an employee perspective.” You can download a PDF of the full report here. The report identifies three talent management challenges, but one jumped out at me. Here’s the money quote. “Engage employees with […]
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September 21, 2012 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: “Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.â€Â Mark Twain “This is even more apparent in an election year.â€Â Me Humor Break: Bev: Al, do you believe […]
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September 20, 2012 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 the future of HR and of social recruiting, how to hire self-starters, employee referral programs, and succession planning. We start with two articles that take a look […]
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