How do Organizations View High-Ability People? Are biases killing your organization’s TM and OD programs? Click on the photo to take the quiz to find out. . .

The STATE of TALENT DEVELOPMENT:

RECENT RESEARCH & KEY FINDINGS

(© January, 2010 Report from TalentPsychology.com)

“89% of managers believe employees leave for more money. But, in fact, the survey found that 88% of employees leave for reasons other than money. What a disconnect!” 1 —Leigh Branham,   The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave

“62% [...]

January, 2010

An October, 2008 BlessingWhite survey found that one third of employees feel micromanaged by a boss or supervisor.  Being on the receiving end of micromanaging is especially problematic for High-Potential employees because it means they are regularly subjected to excessive monitoring, questioning, checking, and nit-picking.  If, indeed, the goal of an organization [...]

Are high-potential employees the key to organizational success?  Without a doubt!

Especially at senior leadership levels, for at least the next ten years “companies in industrialized markets will face labor shortages and brain drain of dramatic proportions (Watkins, 2007)”.  Business experts including Jay Conger (2009), confess that even with decades of [...]

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Certain early gifted traits catch people’s attention because they are unexpected, different, or pronounced (e.g., perfectionism, intensity, heightened sensitivity, need for change and challenge). Unfortunately, to the uninformed or misinformed observer, these traits often lead to faulty interpretations that can hinder development: (1) the behavior, question, reaction is excessive and wrong, (2) [...]

Most organizations have no idea why top talent leaves—at least not the real reasons.  Even if departing employees participate in an “exit interview”, most quickly determine it is best to keep the truth to themselves.  Consequently, organizations guess or make up reasons to explain why high potentials choose to take their talents elsewhere. [...]

For years surveys and publications worldwide have been proclaiming a staggering shortage of competent leaders.  The situation is even more discouraging when we consider all the shocking corporate scandals in recent years, set in motion by unethical leaders.  Yet there is also another problem that has been largely overlooked.  Though a wide array [...]

Giftedness in the Workplace: Can the Bright Mind Thrive in Today’s Organizations? By Dr. Mary E. Jacobsen
MENSA Research Journal, Vol. 39 (2), Summer, 2008

“No matter how brilliant they may be, gifted adults who have received inaccurate or scant information about what it means to be gifted often have no way [...]

The Gifted Adult, by Dr. Mary E Jacobsen

Are you relentlessly curious and creative, always willing to rock the boat in order to get things done… extremely energetic and focused, yet constantly switching gears… intensely sensitive, able to intuit subtly charged situations and decipher others’ feeling? If these traits sound familiar, [...]