Leaders: Take the “Blind Spots” Test!
Guest post from David Mattson: If something bad were to happen to you or one of your key team members, something that took you or that person out of action … Read more
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10 Ways to Get Brutally Candid Feedback
Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for 10 ways to get candid feedback. Just make sure that when you do, you listen, keep your mouth shut, and … Read more
A Guide to Management and Leadership Assessment Centers
What is a management or leadership assessment center? Do they really work? Who does them? How much do they cost? Are there less expensive alternatives? Read more over at About.com … Read more
7 Ways to Assess Leadership Potential
There is more than one way to skin a cat, or in this case, to assess for leadership potential using the performance and potential 9 box matrix. Read my latest post … Read more
Do You Know What Your 3 Greatest Strengths and Weaknesses Are?
I was helping out our Career Services team last week by being an interviewer for some of our soon-to-graduate senior business majors. Although I have my own preferred way on … Read more
A CEO’s Guide to Leadership Development
This post was published in SmartBlog on Leadership last week: “The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.” — … Read more
Why You Should Conduct Talent Review Meetings and 10 Best Practices for Doing Them
I’ll bet a lot of executives and managers reading this post would enthusiastically agree with the declaration “Employees are our greatest asset”. How about you? How successful would your team … Read more
10 Tips on How to Shine in a Talent Review Meeting
If you’re a manager, at some point in your career, if you haven’t already, you’ll be required to participate in something called a “talent review” meeting. That’s HR-speak for a … Read more
10 Reasons NOT to do Succession Planning
Succession planning is the systematic assessment and identification of individuals to fill key leadership positions that may or will open up sometime in the future. It’s otherwise known as “what … Read more
A No-Bulls%&$ Guide to Succession Planning and Development
After having written my 500th post for Great Leadership, I thought it was finally time to write something on how to do succession planning. After all, it’s where I probably … Read more