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The goal of succession planning is simple: ensure there are ready candidates to consider when a vacancy occurs in a critical position. The goal may sound simple but reaching it often is not. Questions come up. Sometimes they're … [Read more...] about 9 Succession FAQs

High potentials: They’re the top 5% in your company and its future leaders. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to tell someone they’ve been identified as a high potential? Sure, but only if you're willing to tell that … [Read more...] about Being a High Potential is not Forever

Knowing that you need to improve your skills in some area and knowing what skills to improve are not the same thing. Let’s say your last presentation didn’t go as well as you wanted. Not that all your presentations are home … [Read more...] about How to Figure out What to Develop

It’s no secret that most people aren’t happy with performance ratings – the kind you get on a performance review. Ratings are subject to biases like the recency bias – the notion that what’s been happening lately will keep … [Read more...] about Want the Performance Reviews You Write to Have Fair Ratings? Take These Three Steps

It’s easy to get excited about learning something new. And then the actual work begins. If you're simply adding to your expertise, learning usually is quick and easy. But if this is something new, the learning curve kicks in, … [Read more...] about There’s no shortcut from novice to expert: 6 tips on how to keep going

At work, learning doesn’t occur only in a class or workshop or online. It also occurs on the job – through trial and error, conversations, and observation, among other things. Wherever and however learning occurs, feedback is an … [Read more...] about Feedback that Helps Learning; Feedback that Doesn’t