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How We Closed the Gap Between Men’s and Women’s Retention Rates

Harvard Business

As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. So relationships are where employees develop critical skills and leadership capabilities. BCG recognized that many talented leaders, particularly women, have strong communication skills that differ from the dominant style.

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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leaders face an unprecedented talent challenge with no immediately obvious solution. It is easy to logically think of the talent challenge as attracting and retaining the right people. How is the talent challenge like a supply chain challenge? What if you developed a verbund talent strategy? References. BASF at a glance.

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Hay Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

His mantra formed the foundation for Hay Group’s new attitude towards leadership. In 2005, the Hay Group was asked to provide the research for Chief Executive Magazine’s “Best Companies for Leaders” In 2008, “Senior Leadership Teams” an article written by Hay Group staff members was published by Harvard Business School Press.

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Storytelling in OD Communications

Harmonious Workplaces

Craft Engaging Stories Based on Arcs Organizational leadership can boost the effectiveness of storytelling in organizational contexts by choosing one of several available narrative arcs. The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change. Association for Talent Development (ATD). References Apolinski, L. & Random House.

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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

But how do you improve bottom-line performance amid economic uncertainty, a persistent talent crisis, and the reality that only 3 in 10 employees are engaged? Unfortunately, self-awareness is rare in leadership. Here are two proven strategies to increase leadership self-awareness and the signs when it might be lacking.

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Are Executive Assessments the Missing Link to Unlock Your True Potential?

Organizational Talent Consulting

I developed the following framework to help categorize the different types of assessments: Type 1 Assessments: 360 Surveys As the name implies, 360 surveys are tools for collecting feedback from multiple directions relative to the executive's position about an executive's leadership performance, skills, and contributions.

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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence suggests that an academic background in a field like psychology enhances executive coaching outcomes such as the client's self-awareness and leadership performance. Advancing Executive Coaching : Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching , edited by Gina Hernez-Broome, and Lisa A. Hernez-Broome, G. Hubschman, B.