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Designing and Implementing Leadership Development Systems
Atlanta, GA | Aug 16-17, '07
How to design and implement competency-based management/leadership development programs and systems, succession planning systems, and more. Atlanta
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Maximizing Your Return on People by L. Bassi and D. McMurrer
Harvard Business Review March 2007
New tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals.
Managers are fond of the maxim “Employees are our most important asset.” Yet beneath the rhetoric, too many executives still regard—and manage—employees as costs. That’s dangerous because, for many companies, people are the only source of long-term competitive advantage. Companies that fail to invest in employees jeopardize their own success and even survival. In part, this practice has lingered for lack of alternatives. Until recently, there simply weren’t robust methods for measuring the bottom-line contributions of investments in human capital management (HCM)—things like leadership development, job design, and knowledge sharing. That’s changed. Over the past decade, we have worked with colleagues worldwide to develop a system for assessing HCM, predicting organizational performance, and guiding organizations’ investments in people.
Using the framework we describe here has the obvious and immediate practical benefit of improving organizational performance. More broadly, though, as the links between people and performance come into focus, organizations will also begin to appreciate the long-term value of investments in human capital—and the folly of dwelling on narrow, near-term goals.
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Great Execution by Accompli Doing the right things right … it sounds so simple, doesn’t it? So why do so many organizations struggle with executing their strategic plans? Tap into the experience of some of the best “executives” – and create your own execution-oriented culture.
Performance Is The Target by Jane Weddle Comments (0) How would you answer the following question if you had a choice between True and False? Training is a means to an end but not the end itself? If you stated True, you are right—if you answered False, then I am sorry to inform you that you are stuck in an old paradigm that training is the solution to your performance problems! Read whole article...
“The Elephant in the Room: Organizational Silence ” by Alicia Rodriguez
Imagine that you walk into the Boardroom for a meeting with your senior staff. In the middle of the room sits a large, angry looking elephant. free
“The Move Beyond Training?” by Jane Weddle
How many times have you gone to a seminar, development workshop, training and actually take what you have learned and use it to change your performance or behavior—what about people you have sent or organized training for?
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Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with ADD
BOOK: "This is a *must read* for those with ADD - especially ADULTS! I found it tremendously helpful!" ~ Mimi Testen
The Effective Executive in Action
BOOK: A Journal for Getting the Right Things
The Art of Sex Coaching: Expanding Your Practice
BOOK: "There is a great deal of good information in this volume… [a] pragmatic and unique book." ~ Stephanie Buehler, PHD
Maximizing Your Return on People 
Great Execution by Accompli 
Performance Is The Target by Jane Weddle 
