With all the great posts hitting the Blogosphere this past week on the topics of leadership development, talent management, and human resource management, I would like to point you to five blog posts that I consider to be the best of the best for the week of June 1st to June 7th, 2009.
Steve Roesler, Alll Things Workplace: How Do You Spot an Emerging Leader? - Spotting the future star leaders of an organization is one of the most important responsibilities of a business owner or CEO. Steve reports on an interesting piece of research by Anderson and Kilduff (2009) where emergent leadership was studied in unstructured groups and shares some food for thought when it comes to spotting the future leaders in your organization.
Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog: Communication Opens Up - Last week I shared a string of blog posts Tom had posted on the important topic of accountability for results. Tom has continued the blog saga and posted a short and powerful post on how clear and transparent accountability for results can dramatically open up the lines of communication within a team or organization.
Dan Bobinski, Workplace Excellence: Let High-Profile Employees Create Motivation and Foster Teamwork - While few organizations have high profile public figures or celebrities coming in to work each day, every organization seems to have a few employees with a knack for shining in the spotlight. Dan shares some thoughts on how these employees' ability to shine in public eye can be leveraged to motivate their work colleagues and foster improved teamwork.
Gautam Ghosh on Human Resources: Setting Expectations for Employees - Gautam has a great post up on setting performance expectations for our employees and implores us to stop focusing on the process of how work is done and start concentrating on what is really important: results.
Ann Bares, Compensation Force: The End of the Merit Increase - Ann is pondering whether the tough economic climate and the growing prevalence of pay for performance programs is going to sound the death knell for traditional merit pay increases and shares some great links to industry research on this intriguing topic.
