October 2008
Welcome to the October 2008 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
- The “Right Stuff” of 21st Century Leadership
- Assessing Leadership Agility: How Strong is Your Talent Bench?
New@Cambria
- Cambria’s Breakthrough New Employee Onboarding Solution
- Cambria’s Online Development Guides – The Next Generation
Upcoming Presentations
- The Coaching Impact Study: Understanding the Value of Executive Coaching
- Best Practice Approaches for Self-directed Learning and Development
- It’s Your World: Building Realistic Simulations for Complex Jobs
- Expediting the Development and Deployment of World-Class Online Learning
The “Right Stuff” of 21st Century Leadership
Leading global executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates collaborated with Cambria to release a breakthrough study of new leadership in a dangerous and turbulent world. Interviews with ten incredibly talented and dedicated men and women who are working tirelessly to control and eradicate some of the world’s most devastating diseases provide lessons on how to succeed in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges in a world where politics and “accepted wisdom” often carry the day.
The roles these people play and the competencies they demonstrate provide an inspirational model that is quite different from other studies of leadership. Notwithstanding the context of global healthcare, this study contains important messages about what’s needed for leadership effectiveness in the 21st century. We are proud to share this work with you. Go here to download a copy.
Assessing Leadership Agility: How Strong is Your Talent Bench?
The Leadership Agility 360™ developed by Cambria, in partnership with ChangeWise, is now ready for broad release. Based on the groundbreaking research by Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs, the original version was field tested last year in leadership development programs conducted by a number of our clients. The new version, available now, is more user-friendly, both for raters and for feedback recipients.
The new Leadership Agility 360 is an online assessment of what many now consider the “master competency” for leading organizational change, improving team performance, and engaging in productive business conversations. The Leadership Agility 360 is available as a 360-degree feedback instrument as well as a leadership bench strength assessment as input to team development and succession planning.
The next certification workshop will be held on October 23-24 in the Boston area. While the workshop is designed to certify coaches, it will also provide an in-depth explanation of the development framework that underpins the Leadership Agility model. Contact us for more information.
Cambria’s Breakthrough New Employee Onboarding Solution
Cambria Interactive (CI) has developed the next generation of new employee onboarding – giving new employees the tools they need to be productive on day one. Going way beyond policies, procedures, company history, and to-do lists, CI has created a truly interactive “total immersion” experience by not only helping new employees get started with the basics, but also introducing them to the key people and the culture of the organization through streaming video, sharing best practices, providing uniform standards for performance and quality, and ensuring consistency on organizational values while accommodating different styles and cultures.
CI’s onboarding solutions are not one-time events but rather “one stop shops” that professionals and managers turn to repeatedly for key tools and resources, “how-to” guides for handling the most challenging aspects of the job, and dialogue with peers and company experts for the latest, most useful advice. Go here to learn more about CI’s state-of-the art new employee onboarding solutions.
PS: Watch for the release of a Harvard Business School video case study demonstrating how Cambria helped a global professional services firm maintain its competitive edge through onboarding new professionals.
Cambria’s Online Development Guides – The Next Generation
Until recently, organizations thought that having a learning management system (LMS) was the answer to their talent development prayer. Unfortunately, most LMSs do not provide the organization and prioritization needed to help individuals achieve their development goals in the most effective manner. By contrast, Cambria’s Online Development Guides offer clients an intuitive and organized way to focus their people on the right things and support their professional growth for the greatest impact.
Unlike other available solutions, Cambria’s Online Development Guides provide the clear connection between what an individual needs to be effective and the learning resources that support successful performance. With Cambria’s optional front-end assessment tool or a guided needs assessment process, people can quickly and easily zero in on their most critical development priorities.
Cambria’s solution also enables truly seamless integration of the organization’s various development resource access points – including enterprise and business unit LMSs, electronic book and learning media libraries, and online learning portals and communities. Cambria’s extensive database of learning resources – which alone is a potent collection of on-demand e-learning programs, classroom offerings, books, articles, multimedia tools, and internet communities – can enhance the offerings that are already part of a client organization’s learning library.
To learn more about Cambria’s Online Development Guides, go here.
The Coaching Impact Study: Understanding the Value of Executive Coaching
4th Annual SIOP Fall Consortium 2008: “Executive Coaching for Effective Performance: Leading Edge Practice & Research
Westin Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH
October 17-18, 2008
This year’s SIOP Leading Edge Consortium will focus on the topic of executive coaching and will be organized around the psychology of coaching, the impact of coaching, and best practices in coaching. Derek Steinbrenner of Cambria and Barry Schlosser of Strategic Executive Advisors will be discussing The Coaching Impact Study™, their contribution to the industry’s ongoing efforts to understand and measure the value of coaching – including some of their most recent findings.
For more information about the presentation, or to receive a coupon for $95 off your registration for the Consortium, please contact Derek Steinbrenner.
Best Practice Approaches for Self-directed Learning and Development
Breakfast at Cambria: Second in a Series
Cambria Consulting, One Bowdoin Square, Boston MA
October 23, 2008, 8:00-10:30 am
Learning Management Systems (LMS) have been around since the mid-1990s. When they first appeared, having an LMS was no guarantee of connecting employees with impactful learning and development. Since that time, not much has changed: in many organizations, employees are overwhelmed by huge libraries of learning resources and don’t know how to select the ones that will be most beneficial.
Cambria’s Joyce Quindipan, Ray Elman and Steve Neubert will facilitate discussions with invited clients and guests on the emerging challenges and best practices associated with creating truly integrated, self-directed learning and development systems. We will also share examples of how we have helped clients effectively address this need for employees across and at all levels of their organizations. We look forward to an engaging discussion with both pragmatic ideas and solutions.
Contact Joyce Quindipan if you are interested in attending or would like a copy of the proceedings.
It’s Your World: Building Realistic Simulations for Complex Jobs
ASTD 2009 TechKnowledge Conference & Exposition
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
January 28, 2009
This presentation will cover the different types of job simulations available (both traditional and on-line), how to choose the most appropriate type of simulation, and how to combine them with suitable participant learning or behavioral assessment techniques. The session will feature case studies as well as an online demonstration. Jeffrey Peisach and Tim Kroecker will address applications of simulations to selection, new employee orientation, training and development, and promotion. Attendees will also engage in an interactive discussion to help determine how to implement best practices and lessons learned at their own organizations.
For more information about this session and how to attend, click here.
Expediting the Development and Deployment of World-Class Online Learning
ASTD 2009 TechKnowledge Conference & Exposition
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
January 30, 2009
Having a streamlined, documented approach to learning development and deployment can be critical to gaining acceptance from senior executives as well as target-audience learners. Cambria’s Ray Elman, with Barcy Fox of Russell Reynolds Associates and Cathy Feierstein of Assurant, will interactively discuss successful strategies for gaining senior management commitment and examine a successful approach to online learning development (with global distribution), and discuss the pitfalls and success stories of content gathering and organization. They will also address how to successfully work with internal technology personnel and get the commitment of senior management to provide the resources needed to achieve a successful outcome.
For more information about this session and how to attend, click here.
Cambria Consulting, Inc. is a human resource management consulting firm specializing in pragmatic, sustainable talent solutions that impact individual and organizational performance. Through our Consulting, Coaching, Assessment, and Interactive divisions, 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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