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Principles of Leadership Development: Necessary Skilled-Knowledge

Mike Cardus

Using Existing Employees as Mentors. Symptoms of a rush into leadership development 1 : No clear concept of what leadership is and how it relates to management and the roles that the people will fill with and without leadership accountability. Interviews of existing managers. Education for Leadership. The Chief Executive.

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The 3 Types of Diversity That Shape Our Identities

Harvard Business Review

But we believe this diversity framework, though somewhat artificial (as all frameworks are) can be useful to companies who are trying to refresh their approach to managing diversity. Managing identities of origin. Since the 1980s, most global companies have developed diversity and inclusion policies led by human resources.

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Promoting the Non-Obvious Candidate

Harvard Business Review

Conventional talent-management systems emphasize the need to give high performers appropriate experiences to help them ascend to more senior levels of management. Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks.

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How GE Trains More Experienced Employees

Harvard Business Review

Once in the program, the newly minted graduates are rotated through various functions and departments, interspersed with periodic training and mentoring. He finally became a key account manager for one of our biggest clients. Human resources Leadership development Talent management'

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

We also find regional knowledge out of fashion in business schools, a critical shortcoming that the Tony Elumelu Foundation is addressing in a new program called the African Markets Internship Programme (AMIP), which began just last month.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus.