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Make talent your business : how exceptional managers develop people while getting results / Wendy Axelrod & Jeannie Coyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Axelrod, Wendy.
- Series:
- Bk Business
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Supervision of employees.
- Personnel management.
- Performance.
- Employees--Training of.
- Employees.
- Career development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- How exceptional managers develop people while getting results
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Despite considerable investment in resources and tools, many companies struggle to meet the demand for the talent they require. Make Talent Your Business\u201d gets to the heart of the matter: Managers themselves are in the best position to help people learn from experience (the uncontested major source of development) and shows managers how to do it by using the five practices that work for managers who are exceptional at building talent. This set of practices goes well beyond the usual managerial coaching and performance management. It moves the focus from performance today to developme
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Helping Good People Get Better Every Day; A Manager Who Grows People Like Crazy; Identifying and Closing the Talent Development Gap; The Five Practices for Making Talent Your Business; Chapter 1: Make Every Day a Development Day; How to Make Every Day a Development Day; Tuck Development into Work; Create the Right Stretch; Seize Developmental Moments; Leverage Team Learning; Chapter 2: Tap the Psychological Side of Development; How to Tap the Psychological Side of Development; Start with Yourself; Cultivate Relationships Built on Trust
- Help Employees "See" Themselves During Key InteractionsConnect the Dots Between Emotions and Learning; Chapter 3: Connect People with Development Partners; How to Connect People with Development Partners; Green-Light and Motivate People to Partner Up for Development; Give People an Accurate Compass to Find the Right Development Partners; Teach People How to Get the Most Learning from Development Partners; Invest in a Network of Future Development Partners; Chapter 4: Teach Skills to Navigate Organization Politics; How to Teach Skills to Navigate Organization Politics
- Clarify and Adjust Assumptions About Organization PoliticsHelp Map the Bumpy Political Terrain; Coach Employees to Build a Portfolio of Politically Smart Approaches; Prepare For and Sometimes Rehearse the Handling of Complex Situations; Chapter 5: Shape Your Environment to Drive Development; How to Shape Your Environment to Drive Development; Create Development Abundance; Shine a Light on Learning-Yours and Theirs; Manage the Interface with the Broader Organization; Chapter 6: Put Exceptional Development Practices into Action; How to Put Exceptional Development Practices into Action
- Take Your EDM Practices to the Next LevelIntegrate the Five EDM Practices for Optimal Benefit; Savor the Rewards; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; About the Research; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613115164
- 9781283115162
- 1283115166
- 9781605099323
- 1605099325
- OCLC:
- 726734926
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