by Janice | Jun 3, 2021 | Coaching and Mentoring, Leadership, Talent Management
People have now come to expect their managers to be part of their support system to help them improve their life experience not just employee experience. Moreover, hybrid working enables us to recruit from a wider talent pool, therefore managers are increasingly...
by Janice | May 25, 2021 | Coaching and Mentoring, Leadership, Talent Management
One of our recently featured HBR articles referred to an initiative taken by Goodway Group who, to meet the disruption to the management role caused by the pandemic, had created a dedicated role, the team success partner, whose responsibilities included fostering...
by Janice | May 10, 2021 | Coaching and Mentoring, Talent Management
Hybrid working practices are here to stay. This seems to be the message from the recently published IOD survey of 600 businesses, of whom 60% plan to adopt hybrid working. This survey, and others like it, show disparities between businesses as regards the pros and...
by Janice | May 4, 2021 | Assessment and Development Centres, Leadership, Talent Management
Just over a year ago, I wrote about the relevance of The Change Curve model to how people were feeling about working from home. As we have now started our release from lockdown, the Change Curve is once again a relevant and helpful management tool for supporting...
by Janice | Apr 16, 2021 | Assessment and Development Centres, Leadership, Talent Management
I was looking back at ‘Strategic Talent Development,’ the book I published in 2014, and was struck by this quote I had taken from A.G. Lafley, chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble: “the CEO has a very specific job that only he or she can do: link the external...
by Janice | Mar 22, 2021 | Assessment and Development Centres, Leadership, Talent Management
“Thank you for such great ideas. I have put them forward for discussion.” ‘Thank you for this excellent idea. We are so fortunate to have someone like you on our team.” And then …… nothing. A black hole. This has happened to me personally, the last time, quite...
