Executive Briefing Series

March 29, 2006
What Can a Talent Review Do for You?
Dr. Barbara Reilly

It takes a combination of ability, attitude, and environment to achieve true performance. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the players on your team is critical. Using case examples, learn how to maximize the performance formula by discovering the basics of ability and attitude. Turknett’s Talent Review process delivers an objective view of each individual’s personal characteristics, social and communication style, decision-making effectiveness, and management and leadership competencies.

Learn how organizations use this process to help leaders:

• Put the right people in the right positions and ensure a “cultural fit”
• Assess the true bench strength of their team
• Make sound decisions about development, succession, and career progression.

April 14, 2006
Developing Technical Leaders: The Challenge and the Pay-off
Dr. Chris McCusker and Sandra Hofmann

In today’s techno-centric business environment, highly trained, technical professionals are rapidly moving into the role of manager and leader. They are often the right people for the job from a knowledge perspective, but not necessarily from a leadership perspective.

Turknett is an expert in helping organizations select and develop technical leaders. This briefing focuses on:

• The use of objective assessment and feedback to differentiate between technical competence and management and leadership competence
• The importance of timing: technical leaders must accelerate their self-awareness and development or risk costly mistakes
• How individual development in technology organizations can significantly improve the performance of the whole team

April 28, 2006
Leading in a Flat World: Strategies for Maximizing Cultural Differences
Chris McCusker

Globalization, off shoring, and diverse work forces increase the need for cross-cultural competence. Differences between people can be an asset or a liability for organizations. Differences can be a source of negative emotions and destructive conflict or a source of learning and value. The impact on performance will depend on how well they are managed.

The focus of this briefing is on culture as a practical way for understanding and managing differences. In most organizations is its an undervalued asset. In this briefing:

• Learn how leaders can create value from cultural differences.
• Receive practical ideas about creating value.
• Get tips for teaching and learning from one another.
• Leave with a new perspective on differences and diversity