HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. The BRGs provides them a unique platform to enhance their own cultural awareness, develop leadership skills and network with others. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy?

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 9, 2010

Dan McCarthy presents A View from Inside the Leadership Pipeline posted at Great Leadership where he provides a summary of research from CCL and his recommendations on how to manage high potentials. Eric Klen presents The problem with being positive posted at Dharma Consulting.

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Leadership McCarthy Blog Motivation 170

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

I reached that conclusion in 2007, after working with Nitin Nohria, the current dean of Harvard Business School, and colleagues at the executive search firm Egon Zehnder to gauge the effects of three factors – globalization , demographics, and leadership pipelines – on competition for senior talent in large organizations.

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Company Leadership Pipeline Webinar Talent Management 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They are projected to make up the majority of all women by 2060, which means they’ll also likely become the majority of the U.S. Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Yes, women as well as men must be intrinsically motivated to aspire to leadership roles and seize opportunities.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Several years ago, one global energy company commissioned an internal task force to review the status of women and minorities in its leadership pipeline. Reporting to the executive staff, the task force found insufficient gender and racial diversity in the pipeline, including Asian diversity, and recommended specific actions.

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Management Diversity Attrition Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

If an assessment identifies a leader’s need to advance her skills around conflict resolution or negotiation, we can pinpoint projects and team assignments that provide the challenge in spades. Cisco consists of numerous project teams across the company. It measures how we work in teams. It gives the board greater confidence.

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360-Degree Feedback CEO Leadership Pipeline Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. Women have fewer leadership role models and they arguably have greater demands outside of work competing for their attention. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

In a consulting firm Emily studied, a partner and a project manager paired up to support each other’s growth. At workforce solutions firm Kelly Services, two operational leaders saw a need to increase the leadership pipeline and employee engagement through strengthening network connections.

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Tacit Knowledge Quality Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

There are numerous well-known examples of how this experiential design works in practice– such as the “20% time” offered to software engineers to work on projects of their choosing, which Google found promoted greater innovation. Confronting the facts.

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Globalization Brand Survey Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

You attract talent, and people are more likely to devote their discretionary time to your projects. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. This occurs because people want to be around you.

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Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Similarly, David Cohen (Techstars) started the Techstars Foundation to promote diversity in entrepreneurship by funding women-led companies and projects that promote more women in tech. Hold yourself and others accountable on diversity initiatives. Data and deadlines are also imperative to making diversity initiatives work.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Undeterred, Shantha persisted until she persuaded the required number of people to sign up for the microfinance project. She trained six other villagers to lead the SHG in her absence—clearly understanding the importance of building a leadership pipeline, without the benefit of an MBA education. I knew I wanted to succeed.

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Microfinance Innovation Committee Banking 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Classroom-based training is, after all, typically easier and less expensive to implement; it’s evidence of short-term thinking, rather than long-term investment in the leadership pipeline. Although traditional leadership training can develop good managerial skills, strategists need experience to live up to their potential.

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Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Managers striving to make their way up the leadership pipeline tend to manage up, forgetting that their connection to the layers below is often what makes them invaluable to seniors whose sponsorship they hope to attract. Another common network blind spot consists of undervaluing the potential contributions of junior people.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Also look for short-term, project-based assignments that will allow you (or them) to stretch and find new muscles. If you want to really help yourself or the people around you to learn and grow, you have to find similar opportunities, even if the changes are on a smaller scale.

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Drotter Charan Leadership Pipeline Short-term 8