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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. She facilitates strategic planning and executive coaching for clients in diverse industries, in governments, at non-profits, and in academia.

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What’s That Musky Smell?

The Practical Leader

He’s like the high IQ, low EQ, dehumanizing retail/technology global VP who joined us (and met the Canadian leadership team for the first time) at a strategic planning retreat a few years ago. He said technical and analytical skills were the key to career advancement at their company. .”

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Co-opted Board Member Ms Janice Tai also talked about her journey towards becoming a Chartered Manager and how this accreditation has empowered her career advancement in her position at an international non-governmental organisation. What skills should we pursue to suit our future needs?

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The Big Picture of Business- Evergreen Business Strategies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

Strategy Driven

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Mentoring, creating and leading have become the primary emphasis for your career. A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part).

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How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. Other types of data have similar strategic value.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. Yet it''s disheartening because it''s yet another organizational function that appears to not be able to keep up with the pace of business, staying stuck in a transactional, as opposed to strategic, frame of mind."

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and initiative.

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