Are we divided by a common language? I’ve been reviewing 360-degree feedback with senior leaders this week as a starting point to their coaching programmes. And it made me realise that, while behavioural frameworks are valuable tools, they’re not enough to set performance expectations.  And then this made me think about what can go wrong when
A few weeks ago I talked about one of my clients, a growing global organisation who needed to grow the management team with the organisation. Â One of their biggest challenges was retaining talented employees. Paul was one of the senior people I was asked to work with. For a fast-growing organisation, Client Services is a
Developing a leadership pipeline is a challenge for most organisations. Â You need to think through how to develop your high-potential employees. Â Perhaps this post can help. An insight from my own experience Let me start by sharing some of my own experience. You may be surprised to hear that I consider myself fortunate that I
As I mentioned in my last blog post, A Succession Plan isn’t the same as planning for succession. And a Talent Review isn’t enough to retain and develop your future leaders. They are simply the starting point. So, what is the first step you should take once you’ve completed the talent review? Well, step one is
One of the challenges I see often in organisations is that Talent Management focuses heavily on identifying who should be on the succession plan and who is considered a leader of the future. And that’s where it stops. Once the names are slotted into the relevant grids and boxes, nothing happens until the following year when the
In my last blog post “Only 14% of Talent Management Programmes Work.  What Can You Do About It?” I talked about why it’s important to have a joined up approach to succession and talent management that creates a fit between the ambitions of an organisation and its leaders. Let me share a story of why
One of our clients is a growing global organisation that needed to grow its leadership and management teams. They asked us to work with one of the senior people in the organisation, an account manager called Paul. The board at Paul’s organisation didn’t feel he was ready to direct the whole function at a strategic
As HR professionals and senior leaders, we often think on a macro scale when pondering the question “how do you change an organisation?”  We’re often trying to change or implement things at an organisation level, or we’re helping managers create change at a department level or business sector level. And we’re often trying to do
This post was originally published in the Newsletter for CIPD Management Toolclicks.  You can read the original article here. Conflict in the workplace is a management issue and every manager need to be able to resolve conflict in a healthy, productive fashion. Workplaces employ people and, as soon as you have people working together, you have
It’s time to accelerate leadership development in organisations.  My experience tells me that people no longer have the time or inclination for long drawn-out leadership development programmes and time spent away from the office on courses. With business changing daily you can’t afford for your best people to be away from the business for extended
Empower your employees for career growth and retention. Download the first chapter free today.
