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...
by Janice | Mar 22, 2021 | Leadership, Talent Management
There is evidence that recruitment activity is increasing. As recruitment and selection were specialties of mine, I decided to check out the landscape. With dismay, I found examples of dreary job descriptions reminiscent of years ago, written in formulaic tones and...
by Janice | Mar 1, 2021 | Leadership, Talent Management
Word on the block suggests that, over the past year of remote working, many managers have fallen into one of these traps: micromanaging, causing additional stress to their teamsgiving too much autonomy, leaving people feeling unsupported There are, of course many who...
by Janice | Feb 23, 2021 | Leadership, Talent Management
As the vaccination programme enables us to hope for a gradual relaxation of restrictions, we need to start discussing what sort of leadership we want in the future. I say want, leadership is strongly contextual and so what we want is only half of it. The other half is...
