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Build on Your Strengths to Strengthen Others
You can’t walk into a conference these days without bumping into a speaker who is trumpeting the value of building on your strengths. But building only on your strengths is not enough if those strengths do not create value for those you lead. In this article, Dave Ulrich outlines five areas where HR professionals can build on strengths that strengthen others. -
Building a Leadership Brand
Thousands of companies spend millions on leadership development only to get lukewarm results. Why? They rely on leadership competency models that identify generic traits (vision, direction, energy). Then they try to find and build next-generation leaders who fit the model. Result? Vanilla managers and executives who aren’t equipped to manage their firm’s unique challenges. There’s a better way, say Ulrich and Smallwood. Build a leadership brand: A shared identity among… -
Capitalizing on Capabilities
By making the most of organizational capabilities; employees’ collective skills and fields of expertise; you can dramatically improve your company’s market value. Although there is no magic list of proficiencies that every organization needs to succeed, the authors identify 11 intangible assets that well-managed companies tend to have: Talent, speed, shared mind-set and coherent brand identity, accountability, collaboration, learning, leadership, customer connectivity, strategic unity, innovation, and efficiency. Such companies typically… -
Care for Care Givers
The recent global economic recession has placed HR professionals on the front line. In addition to the stress of playing visible roles to streamline their companies; they face invisible stress about their own roles and job security. This article outlines five areas where HR professionals might care for themselves drawn on work from psychology, change, and leadership development. -
Common Viruses: A Tool for Overcoming Viruses that Prevent Change
In his recent article “Are you a Change Agent?” published in the June 9, 2008 edition of Workforce Management, Dave Ulrich mentioned “Nine Unspeakable Viruses” that prevent change and made reference to a larger list. This document provides a listing of all 32 viruses that prevent successful change within organizations. -
Demystifying the Coaching Mystique
Any good leader wants to get better. To improve, leaders have attended seminars, read books, shadowed colleagues, received formal (and informal) feedback, and taken on new assignments. In recent years, coaching has been the rage. So much so that coaching has almost become all things to all people. Coaches have ranged from being professionally trained to executives between jobs. As coaching broadens in both content (what is being coached) and… -
Developing Your Organization’s Brand as a Talent Developer
This article introduces the concept of the branded talent developer, an organization that emphasizes the career and developmental opportunities it offers as a means of gaining competitive advantage in the war for talent. The authors describe the financial and operating advantages earned by these organizations in attracting and retaining talented employees. They also characterize the nine qualities that differentiate branded talent developers from other organizations, and the difficulties inherent in… -
Five Steps to Building Your Personal Leadership Brand
Harvard Business Review, Dec. 1, 2007 By Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood A strong personal leadership brand allows all that’s powerful and effective about your leadership to become known to your colleagues up, down, and across the organization; enabling you to generate maximum value. This article, an adaptation from consultants Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood’s new book, Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value, presents…
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