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The Human Capital Advisor ©

November 2018

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Leadership

• Fortune Cookie Wisdom – Leader vs Manager – The Differences
• Summertime Thoughts on Leadership
• From For Profit to Non-Profit: A Leadership Challenge
• A Summer Think and Read
• Lead Like a U.S. President
• Resolutions for Your Organization and You in 2016
• It's Still Lonely at the Top....and Getting Lonelier
• Executive Presence
• Change, the Only Constant

CEO

• The Road to CEO...A Winding One For Sure
• HR as a Strategic Function
• What Keeps You Up At Night?
• Taking Control of Your C-Suite Quest
• Women in the C-Suite: What CEOs Can Do
• CEO, Know Thyself

Boards of Directors

• The Board of Directors and the Executive Director
• The CEO and the Board: A Most Complex Relationship
• The CEO and the Board: The Biggest of "Managing Up" Challenges

Achieving Top Performance

Performance

• What Should - And Should Not - Be In A Performance Management System
• Performance Evaluation Systems: A Dinosaur Facing the 21st Century

Goals

• Getting on the Same Page

Assessment – Self and Organization

• Total Rewards...Are You Spending Your Dollars Wisely?
• Resolutions for Your Organization and You for 2016

Employee Engagement

• Slide Down the Right Side of the Bell Curve
• HR as a Strategic Function 
• "This is a Great Place to Work" 
• Giving Gives Back
• Employee Engagement

Developing Your Employees

Talent Development

• Commencement Address
• The Road to CEO...A Winding One For Sure
• Can Your Organization Play Big League Baseball?
• 2018 Trends in People Management
• People. Your Bottom Line
• Take Your Employees to the Next Level of Success
• Next: Developing Your Future Leaders

Coaching

• Mentor or Coach – Make the Right Choice
• Executing a Successful Coaching Project - A 7 Step Process (Part I)
• Executing a Successful Coaching Project - A 7 Step Process (Part II)
• Coaching to Win the Long Game

Your Organization

Culture

• Building a Trusting Culture in a World of Secrecy – CIA Part I
• This is a Great Place to Work
• Culture Change – Top Down or Bottom Up?
• Creating a Learning Culture
• Trust - The Life Breath of a Healthy Team
• A Culture of Excellence

Traits and Competencies

Behaviors

• Managing a Prima Donna
• Knowing the People Around You
• Leaders: Born...and Bred

Listening and Communication

• Imagine if Everyone Listened! 
• Listening Part II
• What Keeps You Up At Night?

Acquiring the Best Talent

Talent Acquisition

• Here Come the New Grads
• Getting the Hire Right

Interviewing

• Crossing the Hiring Goal Line
• Questions: Your Power Tools in Interviews
• Conducting a Winning Interview - Part 1
• Conducting a Winning Interview - Part 2

Articles and White Papers

• Leadership
  • http://psychology.about.com/od/leadership/a/leadstyles.htm
  • https://www.legacee.com/types-of-leadership-styles/
  • http://womensissues.about.com/od/intheworkplace/a/WomenLeaders.htm
• Employee Development
  • http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/01/29/why-development-planning-is-important-neglected-and-can-cost-you-young-talent/
  • https://hbr.org/2015/07/7-ways-to-improve-employee-development-programs
  • http://www.inc.com/jerome-ternynck/7-high-impact-approaches-for-employee-development.html
• Employee Assessment
  • http://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/glp/25459/Performance-Review-Examples.html
  • http://www.bridgespan.org/Publications-and-Tools/Career-Professional-Development/Develop-My-Staff/Performance-Assessment.aspx#.VmTEjLgrIgs
• Employee Performance
  • https://www.successfactors.com/en_us/lp/articles/unlocking-employee-potential.html
  • http://www.peoplestreme.com/what-is-performance-management.shtm
  • https://hbr.org/2015/04/reinventing-performance-management
• Change Management
  • https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_82.htm

Books

• Leadership
  • The Mind of A Leader by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter
  • The Truth about Leadership by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
  • Drive by Daniel H. Pink
  • The Three Levels of Leadership by James Scouller
  • Strengths-Based Leadership by Conchie and Rath
  • Beyond Talent by John Maxwell
  • Extreme Ownership by Willink and Babin
  • Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  • List of best books - http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/15-best-leadership-books-every-young-leader-needs-read.html
• Management
  • 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Harter and Wagner
  • First Break All the Rules by Buckingham and Coffman
  • Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT by Paul Marciano
• Team Building
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinik
  • Building Better Teams – The Harvard Business Review
  • Team Turnarounds: A Playbook for Transforming Underperforming Teams by Frontiera, Leidl, Kouzes, and Posner
  • Help the Helper: Build a Culture of Extreme Teamwork by Pritchard and Eliot