How can organizations revolutionize their practices for drastic improvement in the quality of leadership? Consider these key drivers.

Do the math: If your business relies on talent to compete, consider the critical, costly, bottom-line consequences of your selection decisions.

More than 40 percent of leaders give low marks to their effectiveness on five critical skills necessary for future performance.

Don’t become a statistic: 80 percent of hiring managers wish they’d done a better job. Take these tips to identify high-performers.

Discover how to harness the power of data integration for a more accurate and fair prediction of on-the-job performance.

Learn the primary reason for the failure of frontline leadership and how to prevent related productivity losses and team disengagement.

How much will it cost if you neglect developing leaders’ global leadership skills? There’s the potential for internal conflict within their work teams, the potential damage to your brand or reputation, not to mention the risk of losing revenue or clients.

Where will change be needed most? Experts examine the implications for leadership development, talent acquisition, innovation, and analytics.

Does your talent equation add up? See how identifying gaps and weaknesses in your talent systems can ensure success in an uncertain world.

To understand the implications of a VUCA-laden reality for strategic leaders, we looked at where and how they are likely to struggle.

This blog offers a path forward for managing talent in a VUCA world—what you need to do and where you should start.

There is a hidden consideration that affects people retention when economies improve: Inflation. Regardless of whether employees are engaged or disengaged, they will have a financial imperative to seek better-rewarded opportunities.

Leaders focus on four challenges that aren’t going away for leadership development professionals in 2014.

A special poll was conducted among the Young Presidents’ Organization's (YPO) member base of over 20,000 CEOs, in 120 countries, aged 45 or younger. Young leaders were asked "Where are we headed?" and "How do we prepare ourselves to get there?  Rich Wellins discusses the findings.

Study after study shows that too many leaders at all levels are not as effective as they could or should be. Learn the four common mistakes that companies make in developing their leaders.

Every day organizations make the decision to promote their technical experts into frontline leadership positions. Lacking better information, they assume that their best technical experts must be the best choice to lead technical experts—an assumption that too frequently sends these new leaders over their own professional cliffs.

I doubt any of us would argue that the vast majority of development plans eventually end up in the electronic recycle bin. The question is, why?

Each direct line manager likely represents the biggest single point of contact between employees and the business as a whole on a daily basis. This interaction has an enormous impact - and we know that many managers are falling far short of the mark in their relationship with their employees.

To truly help a leader transform and get the most out of leadership development efforts, we as learning and development professionals must continuously provide the right environment for leaders to broaden their knowledge, skills, and experiences and apply what they have learned in their jobs.

If individual contributors make up the majority of the workforce, and they are craving opportunities to grow, why are training resources most often invested in leaders? Maybe it’s because there’s some uncertainty about what development they really need.

Coaches on and off the court are truly tested on the idea of empowerment or providing support without removing responsibility.

Fully engaging managers of learners and gaining their commitment and support is no small feat! We need to bring out the big guns of innovation to look at this situation differently and attack it in totally different ways than we have traditionally tried.

There is an ongoing debate in Talent Management circles around whether measuring innovation and citizenship behaviours motivates or, on the contrary, demotivates employees by negatively affecting their engagement in those activities; a phenomenon known as the "over-justification" effect.

We revisit Gandhi's life through his words and discuss how you can apply them to your leadership today.