Just a quick note on some press interviews I did this month. The October issue of Twin Cities Business magazine did a story on the intersection of talent management and talent development. I have commented in this blog about the importance of strategic talent development, and I expressed some of these views in that article. The [...]
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One of the things that I hear regularly from people in the learning and development community is, “our people don’t know how to write good development plans. ” In the next breath, often comes a request such as, “Can you show me some examples of well-written plans that I can use to help educate my people?” [...]
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Last week we held the final preview session for our Minnesota Executive Program (MEP), and something that one of our faculty said stuck with me. It was in response to a question about how past participants had applied what they learned in the program to their jobs. The question was initially fielded by two past participants who attended the [...]
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If you missed the May edition of Twin Cities Business Magazine, you also missed the special focus section on Executive Education. In addition to discussion about various MBA options, local universities also highlighted their non-degree MBA alternatives (see pages 90-91). I highlighted the Minnesota Executive Program (MEP) and the Minnesota Management Institute (MMI), our two robust [...]
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One of the most striking trends in the learning and development field over the past 10 years is the increasing use of coaching as a development method. Why is that? Increasing pace of change is making effective leadership more crucial The pace of change has picked up so dramatically in recent years that most organizations are [...]
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Many of the most successful large organizations have been spending a lot of time honing their talent management practices in recent years. A great deal of energy is being spent on identifying talent. The idea being, identify the talent, and channel your development development resources into those who have it, since that will give you the biggest payoff. Once you have a process to [...]
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I attended a great presentation by Jodee Kozlak, the Head of HR for Target Corporation. She was speaking at the First Tuesday series sponsored by the Carlson School, Wells Fargo, Twin Cities Business, and Northmarq. The speaker series, open to the public, is held the first Tuesday of each month at the University of Minnesota’s McNamara Center [...]
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About a year ago I participated in a panel discussion on Talent Management where the central question was, “What can we do differently to develop talent in a down economy?” It was a great topic then, and it has become an even more relevant one over the last twelve months as the economic environment has [...]
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Our new Momentum Series short courses got a little press coverage the other day at Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal. The article, titled “Beating the Recession 101″ mentions that Carlson Executive Education is offering 4- and 8-hour courses for $495 and $995 this spring. Our timing for this set of offerings has turned out to be pretty good, [...]
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The Minnesota Daily ran a story today on the impact of the economy on executive education (see the story here). I was quoted in a few places describing the Carlson School’s response to the downturn. As I noted in the article, we are introducing a new set of short, “bite-sized” courses this spring. This is [...]
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