Gerald E. Ledford, Jr. (CEO), Edward E. Lawler III (CEO), George Benson (U Texas)
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CEO’s Alec Levenson and CCL’s Jennifer Deal cited by a NY Times Article about Millennials
Alec Levenson, CEO Senior Research Scientist, along with CEO Affiliated Researcher Jennifer Deal (of the Center for Creative Leadership), were both cited recently by a New York Times article titled “The Self-Reliant Generation.”
What Millennials Want from Work: How to Maximize Engagement in Today’s Workforce
What Millennials Want from Work (Jennifer J. Deal and Alec Levenson (McGraw-Hill Education, 2016)) explains how to design talent, engagement, and retention strategies that will successfully attract, manage, develop, and retain the young workers companies need for sustainable growth.
Built to Change
DVD featuring Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley. Based on the book Built to Change. Lawler and Worley highlight the major themes in their book with practical examples.
Talent Management of Nonstandard Employees
Wayne F. Cascio (U Colorado Denver) and John W. Boudreau (CEO) discuss how more and more workers are operating outside the traditional confines of regular, full-time employment. They may be “free agents” or “e-lancers” (that is, freelancers in the digital world) who work for themselves, or they may be employees of an organization a firm is allied with, employees of an outsourcing or temporary-help firm, or even volunteers.
Strategic Analytics, 12/1/15
This webinar aligns with Alec Levenson’s new book, Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness.
Changing Tires on a Moving Car: Management Processes that Support Agility
The term “agility” gets tossed around a lot these days. Strategists tout the virtues of strategic agility, fast strategy, and resilience.
Corporate Boards and HR
John W. Boudreau (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO)
As boards face growing pressure to step up their understanding of strategic options, risk management, change management and globalization, it is particularly important that they have good data about the human capital issues that organizations face.
Millennials Play the Long Game
Alec and Jennifer sift through the myths and realities about Millennials. Latest article for Strategy+Business by Alec Levenson and Jennifer Deal.
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Finding the Strategic Talent Pivot-Points, 9/1/15
In this webinar, John Boudreau (Research Director, CEO), discusses how job descriptions usually describe work performed by full-time employees, throwing together a series of skills and requirements that seem large enough for an employment contract.
Choose human capital substance over HR style: Evaluate intent, not just the design
The problem is that HR too often focuses on the programs as designed, not whether they really address what the business needs. Three examples illustrate this point: compensation, leadership development and competency models, and training and development.