by Janice | Feb 5, 2021 | Coaching and Mentoring, Performance Management, Talent Management
Over the past year, I have been involved in a very substantial number of assessment centres and 360-degree feedbacks. This has brought me up close and personal with people giving feedback to others or holding career conversations. For so many, the style is to ‘talk...
by Janice | Dec 16, 2020 | Organisation development, Performance Management, Talent Management
‘Stop Asking for Feedback’, published by HBR and that we featured in our 25 November edition certainly resonated with me and it seems also to many of you. Looking back at the comments we have received throughout 2020, this is the feature that attracted the most...
by Janice | Oct 30, 2020 | Performance Management, Talent Management
Living through this pandemic is like living in a bad sci-fi film full of unknown and inexplicable forces and a lot of science that no one fully understands. So, what leadership competencies do we need to get us through this sci-fi film? Not long ago, in the assessment...
by Janice | Oct 26, 2020 | Coaching and Mentoring, Performance Management, Talent Management, The Scala Group
The Value of Talent was the name of my book on talent management published in 2010. The theme was that the demands of a changed world were driving the evolution of Talent Management. In just ten years, those words ‘demands’ and ‘changed world’ have taken on completely...
by Janice | Jul 30, 2020 | Coaching and Mentoring, Organisation development, Performance Management, Talent Management
This timely research report from Calum Byers, who is one of our lead coaches, is now available. At the end of last year, many of you completed the survey that Calum ran to explore the relationship between ‘resilience and wellbeing’ and how this might impact the...
by Janice | Jul 2, 2020 | Competencies, Organisation development, Performance Management, Talent Management
Deciding to keep going with a planned, but not yet begun, 360-degree feedback exercise took courage and clear thinking on the part of the senior management team of Wandle Housing Association.The purpose of the programme was for all managers to have a personal...