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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

Great Leadership By Dan

There are two kinds of metrics – what I would call “end result”, or lagging metrics, i.e., percentage of female executives, managers, etc… and “activity”, or leading metrics. It’s expected that as an organization begins this journey, managers will most likely be either “yellow” or “red” for the first few years. Viability of candidates.

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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.

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. To address this challenge, J&J designed their Talent Acceleration Process (TAP) in 2012, which fast-tracks early- to mid-career individuals to senior leadership positions. Why these programs work.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

“The manager might ask the person who’s leaving to write a [report] to share his knowledge, but often there’s just not enough time for that,” says John Sullivan, professor of management at San Francisco State University, HR expert, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Having been trained by one of the best companies in the world on Leadership Development, (GE), in one of the best action learning environments in the world (a high performance culture), I frown on textbook practitioners. In the end they learned valuable lessons that help them show leaders where the land mines are buried.

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