May 2009
Welcome to the May 2009 edition of New@Cambria – a newsletter designed to inform our clients and the broader world of business about new developments, share white papers on best human resource practices, press releases, upcoming presentations, and webcasts. New@Cambria provides an opportunity to highlight innovative solutions that address our clients’ needs and interact with our audience on the latest trends and leading edge approaches to building high-performance organizations through people.
As always, we value your feedback and suggestions. – The Partners of Cambria Consulting, Inc.
Of Immediate Interest
- Are Your Leaders Agile Enough?
- Best Practices in Executive Assessment
- Cambria Introduces Reduced Scope Coaching
New@Cambria
- Cambria360™ On-demand Feedback Released
- Cambria’s Alternative to Expensive Learning Management Systems
- NetAge joins Cambria as Alliance Partner
Upcoming Presentations
Are Your Leaders Agile Enough?
Agile organizations require agile leaders. In response to this need, Cambria is introducing the Leadership Agility Bench Strength Assessment™, a web-based assessment of the entire leadership bench. Modeled on the Leadership Ability 360™, the first and only online feedback tool to assess managers’ levels of leadership agility, the Leadership Agility Bench Strength Assessment™ can be used to assess an organization’s future talent needs as a complement to succession planning, part of a new strategy, restructuring, acquisition, or divestiture, or the foundation of targeted executive coaching and development. More.
Best Practices in Executive Assessment
When evaluating internal or outside candidates for key senior management positions, most experts agree that an independent assessment by an experienced third party is a key success factor in getting the right person into the job. Cambria’s 25+ years experience in this field has led us to conclude that the assessment itself is only one-third of the equation: what happens before and after the assessment event plays an equally important role in making the right talent decisions. Whether you are bringing in new executives or evaluating the potential of executives already in place, you need to read The Fundamentals of Comprehensive Executive Assessment on our web site.
Cambria Introduces Reduced Scope Coaching
In response to the current economic environment and the fast pace of change for leaders today, Cambria is now offering two new Reduced Scope Coaching options – Rapid Results and 360 Snapshot. Recognizing that many organizations need to delay longer-term talent development programs but at the same time don’t want to slow down their leaders’ development momentum, Cambria offers these options to give leaders coaching support on a shorter, more focused basis to achieve specific, defined objectives, and allow them to quickly leverage real-time development opportunities into business results. More.
Cambria360™ On-demand Feedback Released
Cambria’s 360-degree feedback platform, an enterprise multi-rater feedback solution offering exceptional accuracy and ease of use, is now available on demand. Feedback recipients can register to receive feedback whenever they want, nominate feedback providers, monitor the process, and decide when they have received enough feedback to generate a report. This release also features Cambria’s exclusive Comparative Rating process. Using Comparative Rating, managers can evaluate their direct reports together instead of one at a time. This ability to visually compare everyone against the same performance factors not only requires significantly less time but provides better, more accurate assessments. More.
Cambria’s Alternative to Expensive Learning Management Systems
Many organizations are expressing frustration with the expense, complexity, and time to deployment of learning management systems currently on the market. Cambria has created an online self-directed development tool that maps learning resources to each learner’s development priorities and associates learning resources with job competencies. In addition, Cambria’s tool offers a wide variety of learning resources (including e-Learning, college courses, instructor-led training, books, videos, and articles) that are vetted by Cambria and maintained on a quarterly basis. Click here for an animated demonstration.
NetAge Joins Cambria as Alliance Partner
NetAge, founded by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, PhD, provides expertise and tools that allow their clients to collaborate more effectively, work virtually, and organize in “the age of the network.” NetAge’s pioneering initiatives are used in private and public sector, non-profit, and religious organizations around the world. Their books, including Virtual Teams, The Age of the Network, and The TeamNet Factor, have been translated into many languages. In addition to designing and delivering courses on telework and virtual teams, NetAge also provides technology consulting to help clients build productive online workspaces. For more information about NetAge, go here.
Leadership Agility 360™ Certification Training
ChangeWise Public Certification Workshop
Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA
September 14-15, 2009
Presenters: Bill Joiner and Debbie Whitestone, ChangeWise
The Leadership Agility 360™ certification workshop is designed for experienced coaches and corporate professionals who are committed to moving their senior management clients to the next level of leadership performance. Based on adult development theory and the research described in Leadership Agility by Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs, the Leadership Agility 360 gives individuals a different perspective on how they perform their job and act with others, and provides a deeper understanding of the next level of performance available to them.
For more information about this session and how to attend, go here.
Cambria Consulting, Inc. is a Boston-based human resource management consultancy recognized for its focus on selecting, managing, and developing talent. Through our Consulting, Coaching, Assessment, and Interactive services, Cambria helps our clients achieve their strategic objectives more effectively by designing, developing, and implementing HR solutions in the areas of workforce and leadership development, performance management, succession planning, competency development, 360 degree feedback, coaching, selection systems, organizational surveys, and integrated e-HR applications.
Visit www.cambriaconsulting.com to find out why more and more successful companies are turning to Cambria for a full range of human resource solutions, or call (617) 523-7500.
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