4/15/10: Top Talent Development Posts this Week

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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What is FI?

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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A Big Brain is not Enough

April 13, 2010 by Wally Bock

You may be a super-smart consultant. You probably topped your classes in high school and college. It’s likely that you zipped through graduate school. . That would make you exactly like the consultants that David Maister described in a recent interview. He called them: “highly intelligent people who value and celebrate that which is rational, […]




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Introducing Wally Bock

April 12, 2010 by Andy Parkinson

We’re pleased to announce Wally Bock as the latest addition to the Results vs. Activities regular contributors! Since leaving the Marines in 1968, Wally has been a manager, leader, trainer, writer and entrepreneur. He now spends his time sharing the best of what he’s learned about leadership via coaching, writing books, Tweeting and blogging. Our […]




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More Talent Management Facts #11

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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The Optimism Advantage

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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How Do We “Get” Motivated?

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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Do Bosses Who Kill Talent Through Poor Leadership Practices Go to Hell?

March 28, 2010 by Ken Nowack

“The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.” Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers It’s not surprising that research suggests unequivocally that leadership has tremendous impact on talent engagement, retention and productivty ((Nowack, K. (2006). Emotional intelligence: Leaders Make a Difference. HR Trends, 17, 40-42)). Can […]




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Impulsive?

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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Training Programs for Large Organizations

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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