Employee Attraction & Retention in the COVID-19 Era
Employee attraction and retention – or how best to hire people and hold on to them – is always a hot topic in talent development...
Finding Hidden Gems to Meet Your Hiring Needs
This is the second of my two blog posts on hidden gems – the uniquely talented people who are often hiding in plain sight. The...
Hidden Gems: Mining Your Organization for Unseen Future Talent
This is the one of two talent development blog posts about what I’m calling hidden gems – the remarkably talented people who are often hiding...
Balancing Act: How Great Leaders Embrace Contradictions
Effective leadership is grounded in certain personal qualities and inclinations, but they are not just a collection of ingredients. The concept of balance is important...
Leadership Agility in Uncertain Times
The idea of living in a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) world is nothing new – but it’s possible that ours is now VUCA on...
What Makes a Resilient Leader?
With the spread of Covid-19 and the swift economic downturn, resilience now is among the most important qualities for leaders. One common definition for resilience...
Leaders and Curiosity: What Matters Most for CEOs
The importance of curiosity as a leadership trait is a hot topic in many organizations and gets its fair share of attention in influential circles...
Selecting for Success: The Secret to Asking Good Interview Questions
Behavioral interviewing is commonly used across the Fortune 500 – so much so that there are few job candidates who haven’t been asked a question...
Building Successful Teams to Address High-Stakes Challenges
Workplace teams, and how to make them work, is a topic of seemingly endless research and analysis – including a number of high-profile efforts to...
Exceptional Talent: Under the Radar or Over the Top?
John Hendrickson’s recent Cambria white paper, Exceptional Talent: A Different Type of High Potential, describes the qualities of unique individuals whose outsized contributions make them...
Hiring for Diversity: Role of Behavioral Interviewing
Are you sure you know the strategic value of hiring for diversity in your organization?
What Employees Want from Managers
Almost everyone working in an organization works for a manager. However, the dictionary definition of “manager” (a person who controls the activities of others) is...
How Do We Pinpoint Succession Weak Spots?
Workforce Magazine features Cambria's George Klemp on how to build succession planning into an organization’s strategic plan.
How to Hire the Best People
It’s said that the decision to hire someone is one of the most important decisions a company makes. Much of what has been written on...
The Value of Qualitative Feedback
A Cambria client who has engaged us to provide coaching to senior executives recently posed a very good and interesting question: “Do you have anything...
Fast Company: George Klemp on War for Talent
What if the war for talent ended and your company came up short? Many companies are threatened with just that, despite the dire warnings everywhere...
Rethinking the Role of HR
The future of the HR function is squarely in the crosshairs in a recent series of dueling blog posts at the Harvard Business Review. In...
Don’t Let the Search for a New CEO Drag On
George Klemp writing in Businessweek on the succession planning lessons from Microsoft’s pick of a new CEO this week: Succession planning for key positions is...
Tying Talent Strategy to Employee Training
Cambria Partner George Klemp is featured in Training magazine (July/August, 2013) on how best to motivate employees to engage in new training and skills development....
Succession Planning Done Right
Companies use succession planning to identify and develop people inside the organization who could take on senior management roles. While most companies have some form...
Fortune Magazine Prints Cambria Commentary
Cambria’s president, George Klemp, was quoted in the November 7th issue of Fortune magazine. George provides commentary on the article “Collins on Chaos,” published in...
Why Assess Internal Leadership Talent
In this white paper, George Klemp describes five scenarios in which a rigorous executive assessment process can help ensure that organizations have the right talent...
Fundamentals of Comprehensive Executive Assessment
The most effective way to reduce the risks of "organ rejection" or the promotion of people beyond their level of competence is a comprehensive, rigorous...
The Nature of Effective Global Leadership
Highly effective global leaders, despite their many differences, act in many consistent ways and have certain experiences in common that taught them how to lead....
Getting Competencies Right
Founding partner George Klemp answers common questions and clears up some misconceptions about competencies and competency models.
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
In this article, founding partner George Klemp addresses misconceptions about emotional intelligence and describes what it really means to be an emotionally intelligent leader.
Leadership Competencies: Putting It All Together
Research supported by the Corporate Leadership Council identified the common elements among leadership competency models in top global companies, what's missing, and best practices for...
Creating Sustained Behavior Change with 360° Feedback
Real change occurs when the feedback process is managed as a business process in which attention is paid to creating action plans for development and...