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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

But, unlocking the full potential of what is possible requires a talent strategy tightly aligned with your company's data analytics strategy. Executives with the right analytics infrastructure and the right talent in the right place have a significant competitive advantage. Architecting culture is an essential activity for leaders.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. Leadership & Organization Development Journal. Organizational Talent Consulting. Work: Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 61(3), 421-435.

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2 Questions to Unlock a Better Future

Organizational Talent Consulting

financial and business metrics. Ask yourself each question and journal what comes to mind. Journaling is often an underutilized tool. If you aren't in the habit of journaling, you may like the structure and ease of the Day One app. Academy of Management Journal , 57(5), 1227-1234. employee engagement. Don't filter.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Journal of Management Research, 1(4), 254. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1438-1446.

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Understanding Yourself to Lead Others Better

Organizational Talent Consulting

Drew Gerald Discover Your Leadership AHA What if I told you that the greatest threat to your personal and professional success as a leader is not hiding in metrics or data—but in the routine practices you perform automatically in your daily life? Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 32(2), 127-149. References Bratton, V.,

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business

Recently, my colleague Wayne Cascio and I took up the question of why HR analytics progress has been so slow despite many decades of research and practical tool building, an exponential increase in available HR data, and consistent evidence that improved HR and talent management leads to stronger organizational performance.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A couple of the biggest challenges leaders will continue to face in the future are retaining top talent and creating inclusive workplaces that bring out the best in all employees. Journaling is demonstrated to be incredibly impactful on leader-follower relationships, clarity of purpose, and improving new skills. & Restrepo, P.