YOUR BEST ROUTE TO CAREER SUCCESS CREATE A PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN YOU OWN AND CONTROL! Complete, easy-to-use Individual Development Planning template for you or your colleagues Hundreds of bite-sized, practical, no cost ways to take charge of your own development Plus Exclusive HR Tips for implementing Self-Directed Employee Development at your company Take control of your career by taking control of your own learning and development! Nobody will do it for you anymore: you have to do it yourself. Start now, and you’ll be miles ahead of everyone who’s still waiting for help! Driving Career Results brings together all the tools, ideas, plans, and techniques you’ll need. World-class HR expert Linda Brenner has helped tens of thousands of businesspeople succeed. Now, she helps you assess your personal strengths and opportunities, and then systematically improve in a manageable, practical way. Brenner offers expert tips for leveraging strengths and improving development areas in areas such as judgment, problem-solving, creativity, trust, influence, teamwork, planning, business acumen, customer focus, grit, technical savvy, communications, collaboration, integrity, accountability, curiosity, innovation, courage, and more. You’ll learn where to start, what to prioritize, how to commit to a personal plan of action...and how to make it happen! Are you waiting around for someone to “develop” you? You may be waiting a long time. Nowadays, you’re in the driver’s seat of your own career, whether you know it or not. Corporations don’t have the time and energy it takes to truly help you learn and improve. It’s all on you. Driving Career Results shows you how to drive your own development...simply, effectively, and at virtually no cost. Whether you’re targeting a more challenging, higher-paying role or your very first job, this book is for you. (And if you’re an HR leader, this book will help you implement self-directed development in your organization!) Step by step, Linda Brenner helps you: Identify your greatest strengths and most critical areas to improve Build your individual development plan Choose from hundreds of free, bite-sized, media-rich, self-directed development ideas Collaborate more successfully with colleagues and your manager Track your progress in self-development Whatever your career goals are, there’s only one way to get where you want to be: drive your own learning and development! For more information, check out our companion app at www.skillsify.com.
It is never possible to return literally to times and events of the past. Even places revisited will not be the same as they were. But we can, at least to some extent, go back in our minds. In trying to capture some of the past and record for posterity my lifetime of adventures, I find that my memory has been stretched more than I thought possible. The mind is a funny thing, and time is slippery stuff, but someone has said that we remember more than we think we do; that years after the fact, one day things fall into place and we say, "Ah yes, I remember that well.
Linda McCaffery spent three years researching and writing her book about the World War II ordeal of Dr. Bill Brenner and his wife, Jo. Barton Community College printed the book for Lone Cone Publishing, established by McCaffery. Described as both a love story and a horror story, the book gives a biographical account of the World War II experiences of Brenner, a U.S. Army doctor who was taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II, and his devoted wife, who remained in California with their young son. The book documents the Bataan Death March and the devastation of a Japanese death camp through the eyes of the doctor and it tells the story of the couple's unfaltering faith and love through nearly four years of separation. McCaffery met Brenner through an oral history project in which her interviews of World War II veterans were recorded on film.
Master the first comprehensive, credible framework for measuring HR's value and the quality of its talent acquisition/management efforts! Reflecting their immense experience leading talent management and consulting on enterprise talent strategy, Linda Brenner and Tom McGuire introduce a powerful new metric: the Intellectual Capital Index (ICI). Built on extensive financial analysis of Fortune® 500 companies, ICI helps you rigorously identify specific areas of intellectual capital that drive the most value in your company, and refocus HR accordingly. Using it, you can: More effectively quantify the return on your human capital investments Measure the quality and value of your most important talent Gain a deeper understanding of the drivers of value in their organization Recognize the drivers of intellectual capital within their companies Measure and improve talent quality: your most important talent metric Brenner and McGuire help you finally overcome long-time controversies and obstacles to valuing talent. Using accepted financial techniques, you'll walk through: Identifying which people and roles are producing disproportionate value Determining the true asset of value of talent you don't "own" Gaining deeper insight into the "active" and "inert" components of intellectual capital Organizing structures and business processes to activate your talent and liberate latent value Choosing and applying the most effective talent metrics Refocusing HR on the talent issues, skills, and competencies that matter most Talent Valuation offers indispensable tools and insights for C-level executives, HR leaders, strategists, investors, analysts, researchers, students – and anyone concerned with measuring, optimizing, and communicating the business value of talent.
Building Business Value through Talent uniquely describes how a CEO and CHRO can accelerate business growth by working together to design and operationalize value-driven talent strategies.
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