by Janice | Sep 28, 2021 | Assessment and Development Centres, Competencies, Performance Management, Talent Management
Anecdotal evidence suggests that managers found it even more difficult during lockdown to deal with underperformance than before. To discuss poor performance now when you have let it ride for quite some time is excruciating for all concerned. Add to the mix the need...
by Janice | Jul 22, 2021 | Assessment and Development Centres, Performance Management, Talent Management
These words have been said to me so often about the last training course or, the last presentation etc. I was reminded of them when I set out some reflections in last week’s blog, when I discussed the merit of not falling into the trap of assessing talent on the basis...
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...
