Competency Management: Challenges and Benefits
Effective and automated competency management creates a real-time and predictive inventory of the capability of any workforce. By defining and automating job roles and associated competency proficiency, leadership can readily identify strengths and skill gaps.
Increasing Your Effectiveness as a Speaker
Although it can be nerve-wracking, speaking in front of a group of potential clients not only promotes your services or products, it also contributes to further development of your relationship-building and networking skills.
Create Your Productivity Manifesto Today!
Tips to help you find your way to unlocking a productive work life.
Promoting a Global Workforce Through Effective Training
As companies spread into other countries, they should embrace and reinforce their own cultures in a way that: sends a consistent message, communicates that message effectively through the right media, and emphasizes the reasons that message matters to every employee.
Shape Corp’s Global Leadership Development Program
The automotive and industrial component manufacturer launched the program in an effort to bring ready-now successors and high-potential candidates to a new level of competence.
Teach Employees to Think Like Owners by Scaling Down to Two Divisions
You can teach your employees to think and act outside of their job descriptions—to think, in point of fact, like owners! At Barefoot Cellars, the key to turning worker bees into solutions-oriented entrepreneurs was simplifying the structure into just two divisions: sales and sales support.
It’s About Time: Analytics in Human Resources
The first 100 days of any effort is critical to success, so this 3-step framework can apply to that window of time to help organizations establish HR analytics capability.
Lessons in Leadership: Autocrats and “Helicopter Bosses”
Today’s employees crave partnership rather than autocratic or transactional leadership. So leaders must reinvent themselves with the changing times and attitudes of employees and mold themselves accordingly to grow as great leaders.
Trust: The Foundation of Influence
If someone has earned your trust, he or she has the potential to influence you. You have the potential to influence those who trust you. But without trust, influence is next to impossible.
Culturize Your People to Achieve Global Competitive Advantage
Global businesses will never reach their potential until they recognize that cultural intelligence is a conscious, active, and ongoing journey of discovery and experimentation in connecting with others (customers, colleagues, partners, officials) whose cultural identities and practices are increasingly complex and fluid.