Should We Be Developing Leaders, Or Developing Leadership?

I am often blown away by the sheer volume of entities who provide “leadership development.” How would a conscientious buyer know where to start?

Here’s a hint: Decide first if you want to develop leaders, or develop leadership.

Do you want to develop the skills and competencies of individual leaders? Or do you want to develop the leadership of your team? Both are important, but they are different.

The skill sets of individual leaders in most organizations run the gamut, from novice to expert, and the knowledge and competence required at higher levels of leadership grow exponentially. What a young front line leader needs to know and do is very different than what a director over multiple and varied units needs to know and do.

Building from the bottom up

Leadership skills should build from the bottom up. It doesn’t make sense to use leadership learning materials designed for C-Suite executives when preparing to be a manager.

It’s Time for Employers Go to the Next level In Preventing Workplace Violence

By Howard Mavity, Friday, March 11, 2016 5:59 AM

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By Howard Mavity I recently met with an international company which has armed security responders at some facilities, guards at others, and nothing at public establishments among its diverse operations. We talked about protecting lone employees working at customers’ sites or alone at late hours, as well as how to protect employees working...

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What Happens When You Find The “Right” Job Candidate Too Fast?

By Tim Sackett, Friday, March 11, 2016 5:05 AM

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Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post.Here’s the scenario: You have an opening and you do your recruiting thing. You find a candidate, and lo and behold, they are great! What luck, you think to yourself. The hiring manager is going to thrilled. Boy,...

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Should We Be Developing Leaders, or Developing Leadership?

By Carol Anderson, Friday, March 11, 2016 4:00 AM

I am often blown away by the sheer volume of entities who provide “leadership development.” How would a conscientious buyer know where to start? Here’s a hint: Decide first if you want to develop leaders, or develop leadership. Do you want to develop the skills and competencies of individual leaders? Or do you want...

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3 Performance Indicators That Will Make Or Break Your Company

By Andrea Hak, Thursday, March 10, 2016 8:10 AM

Want to find out how your business is performing? Setting and analyzing performance indicators for your company is the best way to forecast and get on track with your business goals. Creating KPIs or Key Performance Indicators will help you measure your company’s success. While choosing the right KPIs relies upon a good...

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Federal Court Says That Title VII Does Not Prohibit Anti Gay Bias — Yet

By Eric B. Meyer, Thursday, March 10, 2016 7:11 AM

By Eric B. Meyer Last week, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission made headlines by filing its first lawsuits against private-sector businesses challenging sexual orientation discrimination as sex discrimination. Meanwhile, yesterday, another federal court in Christiansen v. Omnicom Group, Inc. concluded just the opposite: sexual orientation discrimination is “reprehensible,” but does not violate Title VII of the...

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Gamification For Recruiters

by Jim Wexler, President, Persona Labs
March 16th @ 2:00 p.m. ET

Digital approaches are transforming talent acquisition and gamification is a growing trend in recruiting. Done well, the gamification approach can provide a thought-provoking journey through a candidate’s aspirations and interests around job roles and career paths. Adding employer-specific competency assessments can help companies to gather valuable data to develop talent pipelines.

In this webinar, we’ll cover best practices for recruiters looking to use data and gamification to create strong social loyalty and engagement, and enhance a great employer brand. We’ll also take a look at ways for recruiters to use gamification within the workplace to help foster healthy competition and answer some of the big questions around data and gamification:

How Big Data is reshaping talent acquisition
Why ‘Know Thyself’ is crucial to every employer
How to leverage user experience approaches like gamification to attract and reward talent
How has “digital” changed talent, work, and the human condition?

Join our free webinar on Wednesday, March 16 for expert insight into gamification and the role it can play in improving talent acquisition

Our speaker, Jim Wexler, will share his extensive expertise in using games and learning simulations for major corporations and help attendees leverage gamification in their own talent acquisition processes.

Who should attend? This webinar is for you if you want to understand the impact of gamification and big data on recruiting. Join us on Wednesday, March 16.

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