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LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Even if you don’t plan to change jobs, your job is going to change on you.

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Broadway musicals and the lessons of succession planning

Surviving Leadership

On Broadway, many understudies are working on originating one role while backing up another (like with Dear Evan Hansen’s Colton Ryan ). The point is, identify a potential pool of successors and develop their skills. There is no guarantee they’ll be around to take over full time. The arts DO apply to the “real world.”

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What to Do When a Good Employee Stops Trying to Grow

Harvard Business Review

Is it OK if someone you are managing doesn’t seem motivated to take on a new assignment or build new skills? If your employees’ current level of skill is high but not growing, suggest a move to a new assignment, new team, or a new project or client — anything to help them jump to a new learning curve. Kerry Jones.

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Holding a Seagull Manager Accountable & Fixing the Behavior

Modern Servant Leader

Reader Ryan McKinney asks : Any strategies for helping seagull managers realize they do this? Dumping on everyone reflects a lack of basic people skills. Human Resources. In short, seagull managers: Fly in, make a lot of noise, dump on everyone and fly out. Or actually holding them accountable for what they say and do?

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How to Get a New Employee Up to Speed

Harvard Business Review

This is good for the sponsor, for whom this is an opportunity to demonstrate leadership skills, and the new employee, who can get feedback without having to worry about asking his new manager (sometimes silly) questions. ” Before he could train Ryan, he needed to set expectations. ” Case Study #2: Help them learn the lingo.

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