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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. But it’s not only their career stage that makes agile talent potentially excellent mentors. They almost always are.

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Is Your Employee Ready to Be a Manager?

Harvard Business

As a manager, you’re always on the lookout for the next generation of talent in your organization. “What you’re looking for is behavioral evidence that this person has the potential and talents to manage.” Perhaps this person volunteers and recently ran a campaign for a nonprofit. What the Experts Say.

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31 books on leadership and change

Brimstone Consulting

Whatever their circumstances, the managers who ultimately became the focus of Gallup’s research were those who excelled at turning each individual employee’s talent into high performance.”. To get ahead and stay ahead, companies need agile, flexible, innovative leaders who can anticipate change and respond to new realities swiftly.