Promoting Management Succession
A review of the work of Melvin Sorcher and James Brant, who have identified six common characteristics which executives tend to place too strong an emphasis on when choosing a new leader.
Content Hub
The Content Hub is your go-to platform for on-demand learning, giving you access to tools that deliver real results at work.
Preparing to Go on Annual Leave
These top tips will help you to feel organised in the run up to, during and on your return from annual leave. Much of the advice in this article is equally applicable to extended periods of leave, such as maternity, paternity and adoption leave, or a sabbatical.
Is Talent a Main Priority?
This questionnaire is designed to help you assess how effective your organisation is at finding, developing and retaining talented people. Allow around 45 minutes completion.
No More Heroes: a Model of Distributed Leadership
The notion of the heroic leader is as unachievable as it is enduringly popular according to a 2007 article in the Harvard Business Review. If, as Ancona et al suggest in their article In Praise of the Incomplete Leader, the idea of the ‘complete’ leader is a myth, then how should today’s leaders lead? Their framework for distributed leadership suggests some of the answers.
Paul McGee on the SUMO Principles
Paul McGee is author of 'SUMO', a best-selling book on personal motivation. This article takes a detailed look at each of the six SUMO principles, and offers practical advice on how they can be applied in the workplace.
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Wendy Hirsh – Succession Planning Demystified
Wendy Hirsh is a leading thinker in the field of succession planning. Here you will find her thinking on the subject, together with some top tips for success.
Scenario Planning Overview
Scenario planning can help organisations to plan long-term by developing hypotheses to enable a vision of what might happen in the future. This article looks at some of the leading thinkers, the scenario planning process and some of the advantages and disadvantages.
Action Learning
This article examines the key principles of action learning as described by Reg Revans, pioneer of the concept.
Nitin Nohria: Employee Motivation Model
Here, we look at Nitin Nohria, Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee's Employee Motivation model in detail.
Top Tips for Staying Focused
If you have trouble concentrating in a world of distractions, these tips will help you to shut out the world and focus.
Effortless
In this podcast, best-selling author Greg McKeown talks to Mind Tools about his "effortless" method, and how it can improve our work and out well-being.