by Janice | Mar 1, 2022 | Leadership, Talent Management
Our recently featured article, along with my earlier blogs, on the importance of empathy and compassion as a leadership skill, have attracted the most agreement and comment of any we have published in the last couple of years. A decade ago, such a...
by Janice | Jun 10, 2021 | Coaching and Mentoring, Leadership, Talent Management
New statistics keep emerging about the mental health issues arising from the pandemic. Many businesses have put health and wellbeing high on their agenda. A particular source of stress that I feel businesses must be alert to comes from the higher level of trust that...
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 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...
