Closer to Your Audience – Presenting, Instructing and Teaching in China

As many of you may already  know, especially those experienced in managing and working in China with local employees, there’s a significant difference between Chinese and Western ways of thought. How well you do in China, your success or failure, rides on your understanding of how people think, connect, interact, problem-solve, anticipate, and innovative. A [...]

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Leadership Matters: The Quest for Talent

Companies in China seem constantly to be trying to improve their talent base and identify employees who have leadership potential. Why are leadership related issues such a major challenge in China?

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Career Paths in the Age of Uncertainty

Career Management – The Way Forward Given the massive organizational contraction that has occurred in many parts of the world, and the on-going restructuring of what remains, is now even the right time to be discussing the topic of career management?

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Talent Challenges – Quality

  At the same time that talent shortages create challenges, there is real concern about the quality of the existing talent supply, especially as it relates to new talent just entering the market from university. Let’s first be grateful for what supply may exist. But McKinsey asked organizations around the world a very important question [...]

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How Leaders Learn

If Leaders are Key, How Do Leaders Learn and Develop? There are 3 great pillars to learning and development. 1) primarily, leaders learn through the job—varied job assignments, 2) education/training, 3) self-development—learners taking responsibility for their own development.

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