In many global companies, particularly those based in developed markets, it’s found that half of senior leaders will be concluding their careers within the next few years, and half of them don’t have a successor ready or capable to take over. As Boris Groysberg (a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behaviour unit at […]
Food for thought … • 81% of the Fortune 500 companies are building at least partially team-based organizations • More than half of the Fortune 500 companies use some formal work teams as part of their operations So, what is a ‘Team’? A Team is not just a group of people for administrative convenience. A […]
You usually measure a return on investment (ROI) in dollars or Dirhams, not how many times you walked to the bank. Why, then, do people still insist on counting how many people turned up for a workshop (the traditional ‘bums on seats’ number) and then offering that number as a measure of the value added […]
Tell Us Your Name and What You Currently Do? Binod Shankar. I am the Managing Director of Genesis Institute Tell Us About Your Background? I started my career in an industrial bank in India where I cut my teeth on project appraisal of small and medium enterprises. I then spent six years executing audit, financial […]
Any successful organization relies on the performance of its employees. During the team building process, the evidence of its effectiveness will be measured in the performance phase. Therefore a leader must be conscious of what constitutes an effective team and how to maintain this. Key to any task, whether individual or collective, is the clear […]
Julie Lewis is the Founder of Mountain High based in Abu Dhabi. Tell Us More About You? I am speaker, adventurer and peak performance coach with a strong focus on personal leadership, in particular around resilience, health and wellness. For the last 12 years I have been training and leading multi-national teams of men and […]
There is no doubt that companies that embrace gender diversity benefit greatly in terms of organizational effectiveness. Particularly, over the past few years, there has been much talk about gender diversity, pay equity and the lack of women in executive and leadership roles. However, women continue to hit the “glass ceiling” or drop off the […]
Higher education has perennially been an integral part of professional growth. From acquiring the knowledge to equipping them with updated skills, students have been able to kick-start their career. This break of Covid-19 has only instilled this further. With professionals actively in the lookout to add more skills and certifications to their resume, postgraduate and […]
Welcome to the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world where the new scarcity is talent, specifically leadership talent according to the PwC Global CEO survey and Oxford economics Global talent 2021, which state that the number one priority for CEOs is leadership. Yes, you read correctly, leadership came in ahead of meeting with customers, […]
Nearly sixty years ago, Donald Kirkpatrick developed the now ubiquitous four-level training evaluation model. The four levels were: reaction, learning, behavior, and results. Each level increased in complexity from a measurement standpoint, while providing even richer information about the value and impact of training programs. Other theorists have since suggested adding a fifth level, such […]
