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Four Styles Of Communication

Eric Douglas — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:41:49 +0000

In the book Straight Talk: Turning Communication Upside Down for Strategic Results, Eric Douglas describes four different communication styles: the director, expresser, thinker and harmonizer. Each different style is based on a unique set of assumptions. Here’s a quick snapshot: Director: Directors are hard-charging, action-oriented leaders, focused on results. The director’s style of communicating is [...]

Keep (Career) Development on the Table

Ian Cook — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:30:03 +0000

In the hurly burly of meeting deadlines, doing more with less, and achieving performance goals, it is easy to forget to keep up the dialogue with each of your staff about: How they are doing vis-à-vis their performance How they are doing vis-à-vis their well-being Their continuing development and growth And, if we do manage [...]

The Four Strategic HR Challenges for the Upcoming Decade

Ian Cook — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:30:32 +0000

Boston Consulting Group, in conjunction with an association of people management associations worldwide, completed a comprehensive on-line + live interviews study on how they are approaching strategic human capital development for the next decade. It’s called “Creating People Advantage 2010″ and worth downloading if you are concerned with the strategic element of human resources in [...]

Latest Findings around Performance Goals and Competencies

Ian Cook — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:25:20 +0000

Hewitt Associates have come out with another informative study, called The Current State of Performance Management and Career Development 2010. They surveyed HR professionals from 193 employers. On the performance side, it looks at how companies are using performance goals (the “what”) and behavioral competencies (the “how”) in their year end performance assessment process. Here [...]

Leading with Talent Development

kriskiler — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:04:53 +0000

Using talent management software packages to administer employee performance has suddenly become hugely popular. Within this new-found appreciation of the need to better address the management of human capital is the need to develop the actual talent within that resource pool. According to a recent report titled Human Capital Management: The CFO’s Perspective, sponsored by [...]

Talent Development: Why Management Is Not Enough

kriskiler — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:44:44 +0000

In an era of managing costs in order to grow revenue, it’s not surprising that talent management software and other programs are so popular. These tools attempt to make all areas of human resources, from employee assessments to controlling labor hours, more efficient and productive. A problem arises when top management realizes that these quality-management [...]