November 25, 2011 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about the workplace of the future, onboarding remote workers, keeping top talent, and Sam Palmisano of IBM. From the Miami Herald: Big changes coming to future workplace “Imagine a company where […]
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November 17, 2011 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on mobile recruiting, navigating the skills gap, training budgets, and peer support for executives. From John Zappe: Study: Employers Are Slow To Completely Invest in Mobile Recruiting “Only 7 percent of […]
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November 8, 2011 by Wally Bock
Talent is not enough. That’s my big take-away from the Aon Hewitt study, “Top Companies for Leaders.” The last version of this particular survey (not to be confused with the Hay Group’s “Best Companies for Leadership“) was published two years ago. If you were thinking that you could just, magically, find the most talented people […]
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November 1, 2011 by Wally Bock
“Tracking the talent, finding the leaders” is an interview with Robert P. Gandossy, who’s described as “the founder of the annual Top Companies For Leaders’ study.” If talent development is part of your portfolio, you’ll want to read the article for a hodgepodge of observations on leadership development. One part of the piece really caught […]
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October 27, 2011 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on why talent is irrelevant, GE’s approach to leadership development, succession management at IBM, and advice on how to make hiring and promoting decisions. From Joe Gerstandt: Talent is irrelevant. “Okay, […]
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October 13, 2011 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on the Mercer study on employee commitment, talent management software, investing in your people, creating a good leadership training program, and choosing leaders at random. From TLNT: Survey: Employees Are Unhappy, […]
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October 11, 2011 by Wally Bock
You won’t find a straight line in nature. In fact, the only place you find straight lines is in artificial things, like books and theories on leadership development. We’ve got to change that. Check the leadership development program at your place. Does it assume that people decide on a straight-line career ladder and then climb […]
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October 4, 2011 by Wally Bock
Founders, especially charismatic or dominating ones, are the stuff of folklore in American business. Sometimes they live on in their company’s name, as in “Dell” or “Boeing” and they always live in the stories we tell about them. Steve Jobs is the most recent example of the breed, which is why there have been so […]
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September 29, 2011 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about HR metrics, succession planning, leadership development, and gender and competition. From ERC: 7 Ways to Use HR Metrics “Using HR metrics and data can be a useful strategy to uncover […]
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September 20, 2011 by Wally Bock
The Hay Group has just released a provocative new whitepaper titled “Leadership 2030” which, they promise will give us insight into “what successful leaders will look like twenty years from now—the skills they’ll require, the nature of the organizations and employees they’ll oversee, the trends and issues they’ll be forced to confront” They make good […]
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