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Archive for September, 2007

Don’t forget your parachute?

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on September 30, 2007 
Filed Under Careers | Leave a Comment

What color is your parachute by Dick Bolles is arguably the best-selling job-hunting book in the world. A favourite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a mainstay on best-seller lists. The 2008 version has just been released with some timely advice to job seekers.

Get on board, stay on board

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on September 27, 2007 
Filed Under Talent Management | Leave a Comment

Under a third of employers train their hiring managers in on-boarding techniques, with fifteen percent even leaving it up to their hiring managers to sort out all the paperwork. Similarly, fewer than half give candidates a realistic job preview or provide interviewers with tools to help them evaluate a candidate’s skills.

Too emotional - good or bad?

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on September 24, 2007 
Filed Under Leadership | Leave a Comment

Do your heart-strings influence your decision making more than your purse-strings? Do you think more with your heart than with your head? Conventional management wisdom urges the avoidance of feelings and encourages the use of rational thinking when it comes to decision making. From this perspective, decision making should be a matter of calculation, not intuition. Now, new research challenges this popular belief.

Talent drives performance

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on September 21, 2007 
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The best companies treat employees the same way they treat their product lines, as something to be carefully analysed and strategically developed in support of their business goals. They determine the skills, competencies, and experiences needed to run their company over the next few years, quantify the gap between their needs and their current resources, then acquire the expertise they need through a combination of staff development and hiring.

The CEO of the brain

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on September 19, 2007 
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Executive functions allow people to initiate and complete tasks and to persevere in the face of challenges. Because the environment can be unpredictable, executive functions are vital to human ability to recognise the significance of unexpected situations and to make alternative plans quickly when unusual events arise and interfere with normal routines. In this way, executive functions contribute to success in work and allow people to manage the stresses of daily life.

Use it or lose it

Posted by Ricki Sharpe on September 17, 2007 
Filed Under Cognitive, Talent Management | Leave a Comment

Psychologists have known for a long time that performance on cognitive tests declines with age making many older workers more suited to doing what they know best, and less suited to new conceptual and creative tasks. However, many older workers whose job requires them to keep up to date and engage in tasks that continuously stretch their minds seem to avoid this decline in cognitive function.

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