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After the Talent Review…Now What?

Great Leadership By Dan

One of the participants, an HR manager, raised her hand and asked: “We’ve recently implemented a talent review process, so we’ve done a decent job assessing our leaders, but now we’re struggling with what to do next. Offer executive coaching. Do you have any suggestions?”. Conduct formal assessments.

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The Widening Gap Between Leaders and Up-and-coming Leaders…and What to Do About It

Great Leadership By Dan

By some estimates, up to 40-70% of any organization’s management population is currently eligible to retire. people), innovative practices such as job rotation, leadership development through coaching, mentoring, action-learning, and next-generation behavioral performance evaluation must all be considered.

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How to Explain Leadership Development to a 5th Grader (A Leadership Development Glossary)

Great Leadership By Dan

Action Learning : A type of leadership development program where participants work on real projects and learn at the same time. Coaching : A way to help someone learn and develop by asking questions that provide insight and help them come up with their own answers. Sometimes referred to “hit by a bus” planning.

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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. Tie executive variable pay to both end result (representation) and activity (2X2 grid) metrics. Establish metrics and goals. Viability of candidates.

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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. Or perhaps I still haven't earned it after coaching well over 500 executives.

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