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Should You Give Employees Stretch Goals? Here’s What the Research Says

Niagara Institute

Jack Welch once said, “Set stretch goals. The key to stretch goals is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don’t settle for mediocrity. Don’t sell yourself short by thinking that you’ll fail.” Is it really that straightforward, though?

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Talent Identification and Management

Career Advancement

“Talent management deserves as much focus as financial capital management in corporations.” ~ Jack Welch One of the best ways to strengthen your company as a whole is to devote attention to developing your employee talent. Sit down with individual team members and help them set work performance goals for themselves.

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How Can You Further Develop Your Talent? 7 Key Steps

Career Advancement

After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. They’re tasked with achieving bottom-line results, and they don’t see talent development as a measurable goal. 7 Key Steps first appeared on Career Advancement Blog. “Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself.

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How Can You Further Develop Your Talent? 7 Key Steps

Career Advancement

After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” – Jack Welch. They’re tasked with achieving bottom-line results, and they don’t see talent development as a measurable goal. 7 Key Steps first appeared on Career Advancement Blog. “Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself.

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How to Use Mentoring to Attract and Retain Talent

Skip Prichard

Opportunities for Career Progression. Often, mentors help mentees identify the competencies they need to develop in order to advance in their careers and identify goals and milestones to build those competencies. Mentoring should not be viewed as a gateway to a promotion. It is about becoming promotable.”

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Managing Virtual Teams: Three Keys to Success

Women on Business

Despite the difficulties of virtual management, managers must excel in the roles of director, coach and facilitator to move forward in our careers and achieve desired results for our firms. Steer toward a clear, desirable goal. As Jack Welch counsels new leaders, “It’s about them, not about you.”

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Leaders vs. Managers

Great Leadership By Dan

Managers work toward goals, ideals, and outcomes--that others largely have set or prescribed. In that sense, while managers work hard to get others to do things, and are essential to every organization, they are living more "outside-in" than inside-out in that others have set the vision, the dreams, and the goals.