Leaders Top Improvement Need: Ability to Energize Others

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(From PRWEB) -- Checkster, the leading talent assessment vendor leveraging collective intelligence, today released a study analysis that details the biggest misperception and area of improvement for leaders: the ability to energize their team. Based on an analysis of mo... More »

Nearly One-Third of Companies Don’t Have Succession Planning

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(From CareerBuilder) -- When a high level leader leaves a company, theres a lot of pressure associated with the selection of his or her successor. Even with so much weight placed on future leaders, many companies reveal they dont have a formal plan of action to replace ... More »

Learning Executives’ Confidence Reaches New High in 2011

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ASTDs Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI) assesses the outlooks and expectations of learning executives for the next six months, on a 100-point scale, modeled after the CEO confidence indices reported by Chief Executive Magazine and The Conference Board. The... More »

Employee Engagement: Key Indicator for Greater Satisfaction in Life and Work

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(From PRWEB) -- According to Right Management, 84% of employees say they plan to look for new jobs in 2011 - up from 60% in 2009. Now, only 5% say they definitely intend to remain in their current position. For companies to keep employees from searching elsewhere and to... More »

Talent top priority for CEOs

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(From hrzone.co.uk) -- According to a survey among 1,201 chief executives in 69 countries undertaken by management consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, emerging Asia-Pacific markets are being viewed by bosses in Western Europe as key to generating revenue growth in 2011,... More »