Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Yet, according to the Association of Test Publishers, the Society for Human Resources, and the publisher of the Myers-Briggs, these assessments are still administered millions of times per year for personnel selection, executive coaching, team building and conflict resolution.

Incentives 11

Incentives Human Resources Short-term Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Recently, I was talking with a senior leader from a world-class global learning and development company. But my peer-review literature search revealed no similar ways to assess how willing leaders are to be influenced or how transparent they are about how they can best be influenced. Whoever can debate better wins.

Influence 8

Influence Six Sigma Open-book Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. (We detail this process in our HBR article, " Make Time for the Work That Matters."). Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

To us, it’s similar to asking whether reviews, training programs, employee assistance services, or other company initiatives are effective for both worker performance and the bottom line. And most of the time this comes down to how they’re designed and executed. This, of course, takes time and support. Asking for help.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

For over 30 years I worked as a business school professor educating thousands of MBAs and executives. Additionally, higher-ambition leaders capture the hearts and minds of their people, and they lead and execute in a way that creates both economic and social value. Personal Integration.

360-Degree Feedback 14

360-Degree Feedback Ethics Education Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Millennials are turning to Facebook and Twitter, while GenZ, or the iGeneration, is skeptical of brands and places more value on peer-to-peer reviews–even from strangers. We help our client Sunstar GUM execute monthly Facebook sweepstakes to boost product awareness, real-time engagement and expand its fan base.

Media 8

Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2016

This is particularly true in employee and leadership development programs, with strengths having somewhat of a cult-like following among HR and talent management professionals. Furthermore, high-performing leaders tend to get better by developing new strengths , not just enhancing old ones. Further Reading. Managing Yourself Book.

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Leadership Development Talent Management Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Managers focus on building a great team, creating a vision for how that team will execute its goals, and helping the people on that team develop in their careers. As an added bonus, your ICs are much more likely to execute effectively when the idea was theirs to begin with.). They aren’t there to tell teams what to do.

Politics 14

Politics Tactics Review Learning-by-Doing 14