5 ways leaders can guide talent development amid COVID-19
Business leaders should actively respond with measures to reduce employee anxiety during the global outbreak. While businesses may slow down, shifting employee focus to upskilling could have a positive impact at two key levels. For employees, it would instill confidence and channel their downtime in the right direction. It would also help organizations fix skill gaps and improve productivity when business recovers. Here are some ways leaders can guide talent development during these times.
Benefits of succession planning — Why it’s so important
Succession planning aims to ensure a company always has the right leaders in place should a change happen quickly. By failing to create an orderly plan for succession, your company may not get a second chance if it doesn’t adapt immediately after a key player leaves the company or passes away.
After all, you can’t anticipate when a serious illness, accident, disaster, or pandemic will strike, but you can prepare for what will need to be addressed should one happen.
Future-Ready Armour: Simply Build your Learning and Development Capabilities!
Persistent uncertainty due to the pandemic, the digital revolution, the millennial workforce, and knowledge becoming a highly-priced commodity have placed a premium on reskilling and upskilling. Thus elevating the importance of setting a comprehensive and robust Learning and Development charter within organizations.
What Makes a Good Manager (The Ultimate Guide of Dos and Don’ts)
Most employees would do anything to earn the opportunity to become a manager. But why? What makes them yearn to earn this tag? Ironically, many aspiring managers do not care to dig deep and discover what makes a good manager.
It’s like not preparing well enough for the exam but expecting to take the top spot. They just want to bag the coveted title of a manager without doing the groundwork. But what makes them yearn to earn this tag? Is it just the respect that comes with the title? Or is it the added responsibility that comes with it? Or is it simply the feeling of satisfaction in achieving a career milestone?