Talent Development
The Hollywood Star System created some of the most enduring screen legends. The System evolved as studio executives, public relations staffs and agents conspired to create ‘properties’ guaranteed to make box office gold. By the early 70’s the System was gone. The industry and society had changed.
The Star System is an early example of Talent Development relying on tenets that we still use today in the corporate arena – select those with promise, groom for success;
provide opportunities to demonstrate newly-honed skills; promote. Companies that rely on these tenets as gospel and focus on Stars as their sole vehicle for talent management are not optimizing their talent resources and may be exposing their organizations to risk.
Contact us to learn more about current talent development practices.
The Star System is an early example of Talent Development relying on tenets that we still use today in the corporate arena – select those with promise, groom for success;
provide opportunities to demonstrate newly-honed skills; promote. Companies that rely on these tenets as gospel and focus on Stars as their sole vehicle for talent management are not optimizing their talent resources and may be exposing their organizations to risk.
Contact us to learn more about current talent development practices.
Career Management
You were the me generation, empowered, assertive, resilient. Your life and by extension career was executed according to a five-year plan. Your ambition and expectations knew no bounds. You still live by the maxims, reach, stretch, achieve. But what now? If words like rut, legacy or perhaps fulfillment are intruding on your self-regimented thoughts, it may be time for professional career guidance.
Career Transition
All good things come to an end, or maybe they weren’t so great after all. Through choice or via the pink slip you are at a cross roads. Yes, you will need to deal with it and go through the proverbial seven stages of grief but at some stage you will get to what’s next? Contrary to popular literature and belief not all things are available to us. Not all things are possible or attainable or for that matter desirable.
Determining what’s next is something we can help you with.
Determining what’s next is something we can help you with.
Executive Coaching
In the hyper-competitive corporate world coaching has become commonplace among F100 organizations many of which deploy a cadre of professionals to help their recruits gain that added edge, or, to take the edge off. Professionals of various stripes also increasingly look to one-on-one interaction with an objective third party to help them up their game. Coaching is not a mantle to denote personal worth or another trophy of merit. Coaching can be a very powerful tool.
Whether you are an executive looking to adapt more quickly to the context of the organization or represent an organization seeking to aid an executive with the more artful aspects of leadership, please contact us to explore these offerings.
Whether you are an executive looking to adapt more quickly to the context of the organization or represent an organization seeking to aid an executive with the more artful aspects of leadership, please contact us to explore these offerings.
Assessment
Hiring mistakes and even disasters still happen with such regularity among some of the most well-endowed corporations that you have to wonder whether there is any hope for smaller enterprises. There are no guarantees when engaging with fallible human beings on both sides of the hiring desk but disasters don’t need to happen.
Assisting you to develop selection criteria and processes aligned to your organization as well as sharing a few trade secrets are tools we can provide your organization.
Contact us to learn more about our assessment tools.
Assisting you to develop selection criteria and processes aligned to your organization as well as sharing a few trade secrets are tools we can provide your organization.
Contact us to learn more about our assessment tools.
Search
Search has been around for 50 plus years. Surely certain standards apply - a detailed review of the role with stakeholders, identification of core competencies, definition of success factors - these are a given. Where we differ is in our careful attention to context, the inter-relationships of the team and a dialed-in approach to targeting. Skills, aptitudes, prior successes can all be gleaned from a resume. It’s a given that your top candidates can do the job. The question is will they be able to replicate their success in the context and within the constraints of the way your organization, in fact, ecosystem, work. Answering that question with certainty is one of our primary objectives.
Contact us to discuss your search needs.
Contact us to discuss your search needs.
Our commitment to the candidates who choose to work with us:Confidentiality Our business is based on trust. As either a source or candidate, the conversation and information you disclose to us is confidential. Should you decide to pursue a client opportunity with us your consent will be obtained prior to sharing your personal information with a client. We also counsel our clients on matters of confidentiality.
Honesty Selective disclosure is not constructive to the process. As a candidate you need to make an informed decision about an opportunity. Objectivity Every attempt is made to define objective criteria against which candidates are measured. If your experience does not match these criteria we will inform you as early as possible in the process and provide meaningful feedback. Timely follow up Try as we may to keep every engagement within a three-month horizon, unforeseen delays frequently occur. Running the business often takes precedence for our clients. When that happens we will make you aware of these circumstances. |