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Strengthening the Leadership Pipeline

September 10, 2021

How Some Companies Are Aiming High In Leadership Development

Most leadership development aims at modest targets, such as a few dozen leaders or a high-potential group. Organizations can aim higher, using development to

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June 18, 2021

Episode 37: Companies Are Bad At Identifying High Potential Employees

Details A high-potential employee is usually in the top 5% of employees in an organization. These people are thought to be the organization’s most

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June 15, 2021

Episode 36: Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers

Details When a company needs a supervisor for a team, senior leaders often anoint the team’s most productive performer. Some of these stars succeed

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June 14, 2021

Companies Are Bad at Identifying High-Potential Employees

High-potential programs are meant for the top 5% of employees, yet data on 1,964 designated high potentials found 42% were below average in leadership

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June 7, 2021

Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers

Promoting the most productive performer to manager often backfires. The skills behind individual productivity are mostly self-focused, while great managers need other-focused skills such

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September 21, 2020

Episode 2: We Wait Too Long To Train Our Leaders

Young leaders are being promoted to mid and senior-level positions quite often. But do they have the necessary skills and training to be great

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June 9, 2020

We Wait Too Long To Train Our Leaders

Most people become supervisors around 30, yet the average leader in training programs is 42, leaving managers to practice leadership untrained for over a

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March 14, 2018

Pardon Me, Your Pipeline is Leaking… and Three Reasons to Get It Fixed

Women remain underrepresented in top roles despite strong performance. Data on over 60,000 leaders shows women outperform men on 13 of 16 key competencies,

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