March 2023
Lessons Learned: Executive Coaching
About two years ago, I decided not to present or publish “lessons learned” since I felt I needed to remain wide open to learning from others. Well, I recently decided…
Category: Research/ Insights
February 2023
Benefits of a Data-Driven Talent Approach
Leadership and Selection Assessments provide significant value to an organization. Those who invest in a data-driven approach experience increased retention, improved quality of hires, successful onboarding, and cost savings by…
January 2021
The Cutting Edge Art and Science of Hiring Frontline Leaders
Organizations spend the least amount of time and investment at what is “by far” the most critical role in their organizations: Frontline Supervisors. In every organization, these leaders set the…
September 2020
Upskilling: Questions and Answers
Russell J. Barcelona, Ph.D.
Q1: What are effective assessment tools to identify internal candidates for upskilling? Interesting question…let’s turn this one on its head. First, what is truly different between the circumstances of upskilling…
March 2019
CEO Succession Planning
Bob Young
CEO Success Planning l Milwaukee l Wisconsin
Ascend Talent Strategies steps for CEO succession planning and creating a CEO development plan.
March 2019
Selecting the Best Coach
Bob Young
The field of executive coaching has few barriers to entry, and it has seen an influx of service professionals marketing themselves as executive “coaches.” This surge of providers has led…
March 2019
Aligning Strategy
Bob Young
The Metro Milwaukee Society of Human Resource Management’s (MMSHRM) Performance and Development Special Interest Group launched a survey of members to understand how local professionals and leaders in the HR…
March 2019
Building a Leadership Development Platform
Russ Barcelona
Many times in business we are challenged to think in terms of ROI: Return On Investment. However, thanks to Bennington and Laffoley (2012) there is another “ROI” that plays a…
March 2019
Assessment and Selection
Russ Barcelona
Research consistently points to key indicators of true high potential leaders. While there is some variance across organizations as to the weighting of these factors, there is considerable agreement as…
March 2019
High Potential Employees
Bob Young
The following is a list of the top five obstacles we have encountered in our client organizations attempting to develop and sustain high potential development programs. A general description of…