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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

Great Leadership By Dan

However, according to 20-First’s 3rd Annual Global Gender Scorecard , 90% of Executive Committee positions are still filled by men, with only 10% by women. There’s a “Diversity” strategy driven from one office, and a succession planning and development strategy driven by another. Allocate development resources to female candidates.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people.

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The Remarkable Power of the Truth Teller

Lead from Within

If you’re in a powerful position or leadership role in which people look up to you, you’re expected to lead in integrity and truth. They know that honest hearts produce honest actions. Learn more about the TRUTH TELLER in my new book: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness. the way they would like us to be.

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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The Kind of Homework That Helps Coaching Stick

Harvard Business Review

Managers can have a powerful, positive impact on their employees’ performance, engagement and development through coaching. When you’re coaching an employee in order to support career development, you’ll want to identify activities that help make progress toward a specific career goal.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

If you have months for a transition, Leonard suggests creating a “carefully constructed action plan of learning,” whereby the “highly skilled, deep smarts employee is paired with one or more replacements” so they can observe her in action, learn and practice new skills, and receive feedback on their performance.