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 »

New Project Management Benchmark Study Confirms Value of Training Initiatives

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(From Business Wire) -- A new benchmark study from project management firm PM Solutions, on The State of Project Management Training, found that the average firm invests US $2,211 per year per employee for project management training. Multiplied across a department, div... More »

CEO Transitions: Do It Right or Pay the Price

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(From Business Wire) -- If CEO succession is not a hot topic in your boardroom, sooner or later, it will be. A change at the top can be driven by any number of eventssome of which are anticipated, others that no one sees coming. In every case, the more prepared a compan... 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 »

Most HR Execs Give Mixed Grades to Leadership Pipelines

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(From PRWEB) -- Human resources and talent management executives give mixed grades for the quality of their own organizations' leadership pipelines, according to a survey by Right Management. Right Management is the talent and career management expert within ManpowerGro... More »