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Building the next leadership pipeline with short-term executive programs in Top B-schools

HR Digest

Employees working for ten years or more have likely developed core skills in a specific discipline, and if they want to make the transition to the C-suite, they need to expand their knowledge. A finance expert who wants now to expand into marketing or customer dealings can choose from a myriad of short courses that deal in the same fields. .

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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

Henry discusses EY’s response to evolving workplace dynamics, including flexible work models and investments in emerging technologies. Through Henry’s insights, HR professionals gain valuable perspectives on navigating HR leadership in a dynamic environment.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

They are hard working individuals who have the potential to be leaders based on their knowledge, skills, and the behaviors and attitudes they display. They are eager to learn new skills and take on additional responsibilities and bigger challenges. Influencing skills. Team leadership. Change management.

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When Learning at Work Becomes Overwhelming

Harvard Business Review

Many skilled jobs require a considerable amount of learning while doing, but learning requirements have reached unrealistic levels in many roles and work situations today. This phenomenon of “too much to learn” is not only feeding the perception of critical skills shortages in many sectors, but it can also accelerate burnout.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. But companies also have a key part to play in fostering diversity in their leadership pipeline.

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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way

Harvard Business Review

Much of Charan’s recent work has tilted towards organization and people (books on strategy execution, leadership pipeline, talent and advice on intensity, change, leadership traits, performance management, governance). This is both unfair and simplistic. It ignores what I call the 20-60-20 rule.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. Women have fewer leadership role models and they arguably have greater demands outside of work competing for their attention.