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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

As a 2017 World Bank report noted: “the WMS initiated by Bloom and Van Reenen … has permitted a quantum leap in the comparative quantitative analysis of management practices and their implications for productivity and innovation.” Ill-equipped Research from Gallup highlights the importance of good management.

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How to Sustain Your Leadership Team’s Momentum Throughout the Year

Next Level Blog

Like a lot of organizations, this company has a senior leadership team conference at the beginning of the year – either fiscal or calendar – to lay out their themes, goals and plans for the next 12 months. Part one is that the best organizations have an annual management calendar that drives planning, assessment and accountability.

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How to Book the Right Motivational Speaker

Career Advancement

First you must determine your goal for the event. Do you wish to increase productivity among your employees or to nurture leadership in your management team, for example? Whatever your goal, you must find a keynote speaker who can deliver on it. Immediate, measurable results for the participants.

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Diversity and Inclusion – Two Very Different Concepts

Great Leadership By Dan

You need to de-bias the systems that run the organisation, such as recruitment, pay, procurement, talent management and marketing. If you notice that some of your staff don’t speak up much in meetings, you might consider rotating the chair of the meeting to increase the participation of introverts.

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HR Value Delivery: Power of HR to Transform Organizations

HR Digest

This wave of HR value delivery emphasized the need for HR practices to contribute directly to the achievement of organizational goals. HR professionals can facilitate this alignment by involving customers in talent development initiatives. HR professionals must focus on developing effective leadership at all levels of the organization.

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Paige Ross on Crafting Talent and Well-being at Blackstone

HR Digest

In an exclusive Q&A session with Paige Ross, Global Head of Human Resources at Blackstone, we gain profound insights into the world of talent management and employee development within one of the world’s leading financial institutions. This keeps our people accountable against their goals, and mindful of their areas of opportunity.

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How Bosses Can Support Their Employees’ Development

Center for Creative Leadership

From our work with more than 30,000 leaders annually, we’ve uncovered the primary predictor of a leadership development program’s success: the level of support participants receive from their boss, both before and after the training. To better understand a supervisor’s impact on their participants’ success, we conducted 2 studies.