Successful Transitioning from an Individual Contributor to a Supervisor Role

The time has come. You were an employee in an organization and now you are being promoted to a supervisory position. How can you make the jump from one role to the other and still be successful? As a supervisor you now have more roles and responsibilities, some of which include:

Being responsible [...]

Check Out the “Dark Side” or Personality when Hiring or Promoting

“Commercial enterprises are rife with myriad narcissistic personalities” according to Joan Lachkar, author of an interesting little book called “How to Talk to a Narcissist”.
Dr. Lachkar describes a condition she calls “Narcissistic Entitlement Syndrome” (NES) as people who:

Disregard the feelings of others

Continually inflate themselves while putting others down

Are driven by fantasies of limitless [...]

Learning Agility Predicts up to 25% of Leadership Success

According to a number of studies, learning agility predicts up to 25% of leadership success! Wow, if that is true, what if we could measure it and use this information for hiring and promotion decisions. Good idea - and the good news is you can!
So what is learning agility? It can be described as: The [...]

Knowing Business Acumen When You See It

Most organizations say they want to hire people who have “business acumen” but when asked to define it, many people struggle. Like Justice Potter Stewart once said when speaking about pornography “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it”.
To help you recognize this elusive concept more easily, here are some [...]

The Role of the HR Professional in the Talent Planning Process

Most senior managers pay close attention to marketing, financial, and legal issues when writing their business plans. But how about the HR issues? It is frequently left to HR professionals to figure out what needs to be done to attract, recruit, train, develop, and retain the talent needed to deliver the goals. This is the [...]