Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) -- Senior management respect for worker contribution has been found to be the top leadership factor promoting engagement, according to a global survey of 28,000 employees in 15 countries by Right Management. Other senior leadership behaviors that correlate highest with employee engagement include implementing and communicating organization strategy. Right Management is the talent and career management expert within Manpower, the global leader in employment services.

Right Management analyzed dozens of leadership practices and behaviors in order to determine which are most strongly related to employee engagement. Those with the highest correlations are:

1.    Senior leaders value employees
2.    Senior leaders have the capability to make my organization successful
3.    Senior leaders effectively implement my organization's strategy
4.    Senior leaders effectively communicate my organization's strategy to employees

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Tags: employee engagement, leadership, talent management, career development

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(Leslie Grossman, The Huffington Post) -- I'm in ecstasy. My New York Yankees won the World Series. And they clinched it 9 minutes before my birthday. I got the best birthday gift money can't buy. My happiness caused me to reflect about why I love the Yankees so much. The answer popped into my head - because of their leadership. Okay, I am a leadership fanatic, maybe not as much as a Yankee fanatic, but, I am obsessed with always looking at why and how people lead. Small businesses and corporations alike might consider looking at the success of the Yankees and ask the same questions.

So here's my assessment on why I believe the NY Yankee team, management, and yes, even, the ownership, show the following leadership abilities:

1. Passion - The New York Yankees have a passion for the game of baseball and for their own teammates. You can see it on their faces, in their enthusiasm and in the fun they have on the field. Their leader Joe Girardi shared a clear vision by choosing the #27 and wearing it boldly on his back for all to see the clear common goal - win the Yankees' 27th World Series. And so they achieved the goal set by the manager within 2 years of his taking on the job as manager.

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Tags: leadership, employee development, communication

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(From Boston.com) CAMBRIDGE - The students practice networking and hone “elevator pitches,’’ entrepreneurial ideas summarized in under a minute. They don blindfolds for team-building activities. Failure is met with candid critiques about their leadership styles.

This isn’t business school. It’s a new engineering class at one of the premier engineering universities in the world, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tags: colleges and universities, jobs, careers, training, leadership, mit

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Many organizations are being asked to sponsor employees for an Executive MBA. Benefits to employers include increased employee confidence, better bottom-line performance and deeper organizational knowledge. But smart organizations put a plan in place -- one that that grows employee responsibilities in tandem with his or her EMBA program. Such plans offer new and more challenging assignments, opportunities for promotion and increased remuneration. (Keep in mind that pursuing an EMBA can involve 25 to 30 hours of extra work a week.) Without a plan, employers risk losing the talent they've helped develop.

How quickly that talent begins to develop was clear to Holly Robinson-Colley, an EMBA student at Ivey who was sponsored by Bruce Power. "My confidence grew at a significant pace and courses such as Leading helped me to become a more effective leader. I became better equipped to make informed decisions." Robinson-Colley gained a much deeper understanding of Bruce Power. "I found myself speaking to senior executives within the organization not only to gain insight about their functional areas but also the company on a strategic level."

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Tags: talent management, c-suite, executive, leadership, canada

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Austin, TX (PRWEB) -- Profiles International, a global leader in employment evaluation and human resource management assessment tools, has released a report identifying eight signs of incompetent managers. Along with the signs of managerial incompetence, the report also offers practical remedies for management training to help managers achieve greater success. Highlighting information gleaned from its research into America's Most Productive Companies, this report emphasizes that the most productive companies are more proactive than their peers when it comes to identifying and developing effective management.

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Tags: manager, leadership, training, skills gap

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VIENNA, Va.--(Business Wire)--Jeannette Terry, president and CEO of Tercon Consulting, a human capital resources consultancy to Fortune Global 50 organizations, today announced that Lorin R. Walker, MOB, PhD, has been promoted to the position of Chief Learning Officer and Director of Organization Development.

For decades Lorin has supported numerous Fortune 100 companies in fulfilling their missions through focused leadership, team excellence and change management," said Terry. "His new title recognizes his significant accomplishments in helping Tercon`s clients develop and implement highly effective and sustained change management strategies."

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Tags: business news, leadership

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There’s no doubt about it: the past year or so has been a lean time for most companies. And while there’s hope that the worst (economically speaking) might be behind us, we aren’t out of the woods yet. The dark days of the recession have spawned a troubling new issue, one that could cripple organizations even as we head into recovery. The looming problem? A widespread loss of employee engagement. 

“Even if companies haven’t literally lost their employees, many have lost them psychologically,” warns Jon Gordon, speaker, consultant, and author of the new book The Shark and the Goldfish: Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change. “Too many Americans are beaten down, burned out, and completely de-motivated. And if leaders don’t strive to change that—to create a positive culture that energizes people—there will be dire consequences.” 

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Tags: new economy, employee engagement, morale, leadership

Categories: The Economy

Bill Conaty spent 40 years with General Electric, 15 of which as senior vice president for human resources. Now he works with private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and several Fortune 100 companies consulting on human resources leadership.

Conaty is speaking at the World Business Forum about talent management. Here’s a quick preview of the points he’ll make.

Attracting, developing, assessing and retaining world-class talent are the four critical leadership development building blocks that need to be addressed by any business to ensure a robust pipeline and a solid succession plan for the future. 

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Tags: talent management, employee development, performance, leadership

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(The New York Times) -- This interview with Linda Hudson, president of the land and armaments group for BAE Systems, a military contractor, was conducted, edited and condensed by Adam Bryant.

Tags: leadership, executive, gender issues, recruitment

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Ah, the power of syndication. Last week I ran across a story about employee engagement, written by Marcia Heroux Pounds. I was excited by it because in her story Pounds quoted Julie Staub,the VP of HR for AutoNation the nation's largest auto retailer, who was speaking to a local ASTD chapter about the pride employees take when their company takes a leadership role. The ASTD reference was at the top of the story:

"'I think our people are proud to be part of a company taking a leadership role,' Staub recently told local chapter members of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD).'"

Pounds used the Cash for Clunkers program as her hook and that approach apparently intrigued papers across the country. I've found no less than 14 outlets that have picked up the story in the last few days. From the Baltimore Sun to the Fresno Bee, the story has received some good coverage. And that is good news for ASTD chapters everywhere!

Tags: chapters, employee engagement, leadership, astd

Categories: ASTD in the News