13 Tips for Choosing a Coach
Companies often are unsure what to do and what to think about hiring a coach as the act of coaching in general requires so much to consider. Here are some factors to keep in mind before making a decision.
Florida Blue’s Sales Talent Management Program
Florida Blue’s Sales Talent Management Program immerses students in a variety of knowledge, behavior, and skills-based courses and activities aimed at increasing retention of knowledge, driving desired sales competencies and behaviors, and enhancing skills essential to any sales role at the company.
Developing Leaders: Creating an Effective Strategy for the Future
Ultimately, leaders need to be upfront and honest, possess true business skills, be able to build relationships, have a strong presence, be honest, and be receptive to feedback. To do this effectively, organizations must be ready to develop and execute responses to several key questions.
The Importance of Active Listening
Whether you are meeting with your boss, your subordinates, your peers, a potential client, or an adversary, tuning in to what is really being said is essential. Since everyone listens based on their own values, it is easy to make incorrect assumptions if you don’t validate.
Strategies for Soul-Satisfying Success
“The Joy of Strategy; A Business Plan for Life” presents eight practical steps that mix soul and strategy to help readers find their purpose, set goals, and create a personal strategic plan to discover and realize their life’s ambitions.
The Love/Hate Relationship with Training Presentations
To ensure your audience is not making a beeline for the door or catching a quick nap during your presentation, here are some tips to make your slides both entertain and resonate.
The Shape of Talent
For many years, the corporate world has relied on two proxies to measure individual talent. The first is credentials, which provide a convenient estimate of the facts a person has mastered or the knowledge an individual possesses. The second is a person’s technical skills, which usually are assessed by previous work experience. But could there be more?
Leadership Development and the Fog of War
In its Mission Command philosophy, the U.S. Army distinguishes between risk and uncertainty. Risk relates to known hazards, while uncertainty is the result of unknown or ambiguous hazards resulting from the complex and highly interactive makeup of military operations, complex human beings, and a thinking enemy. What can businesses learn from the military to mitigate uncertainty?
Novo Nordisk’s Hiring Blitz
Novo Nordisk Inc. (NNI) embarked on the most complex and second largest expansion in its history, with a goal to hire 600 employees in just 12 weeks. Utilizing a combination of in-person and WebEx training, the Hiring Blitz was designed to prepare numerous stakeholders to recruit top talent during this expansion. As a result, NNI filled 95 percent of the 600 roles, and all but 1 percent are still with the company today.
A Need for Environmental Test Training
Military service, manufacturer, and laboratory training directors often face a laboratory staffing problem: When they hire newly graduated mechanical and electrical engineers for these laboratories, they often must provide them with specialized training as environmental testing rarely is taught in universities.