There’s a catch when you hire a new leader. If you spend $300,000 on an exceptional car you expect, and get, a very comprehensive warranty. Invest that or more in a new CEO? No warranty. Just hope you made the right decision. There may not be a absolute guarantee in recruiting top talent but there […]
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The Short List Is Where You Make It or Miss It
Some company recruiters may not know what a short list is. Those who do, recognise it as a critical step in identifying the best candidate for a senior position in their organization. The Short List only comes up in Retained Executive Search. The methodology in Retained is to scour the market for not only the […]
How Mentoring Drives Leadership Development
Cornerstone coach Brian Betti recalls his own start and his good fortune in having an exceptional mentor Internal leadership development usually starts with the move from team member to supervisor. Once the flush of pride wears off, reality sets in and, with it, awareness of the need for new skills both mental and physical. I […]
Leaders-The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
What to look for and what to run from Most of us have experienced good, bad and ugly leaders. As an Executive Coach, I’ve seen my share of all three – always wishing the last two categories had never happened. But they did, and most times I have been able to help them. Unlike a […]
Hiring Top Talent: Why You Need a Weighted Feedback Form
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth in a series by Ralf Knegtmans of Cornerstone Amsterdam, author of the recent book Agile Talent: Nine Essential Steps for Selecting Tomorrow’s Top Talent. After years in the executive recruitment field I have come to believe that the proper theoretical background and sufficient practice can help anyone to improve […]
Making a “Commitment” is Personal
Commitment means different things to different people in different situations. In the workplace, it’s a frequent but ambiguous request, as in “we need to stop having incidents, and I need your commitment that they will stop.” Do any of us have that kind of power? The command is delivered as if we were purposely […]
Values Collision, How to Ruin a Great Day at Work
You wake up at 5:30 to get the early train. You are the first to arrive at work, you have a busy week ahead of you, as well as a full day today. You prep for your Monday morning team meeting. Notes, handouts, metrics – everything is just the way you like it. It’s 9 […]
Linkedin: Same Old, Same Old?
In North America especially, LinkedIn is generally viewed as THE place for a professional to post his or her resume. No job directory has come close to its meteoric growth from 500 thousand to 500 million users. And recent stats for 2015-2017 show the growth rate of users undisturbed. But a recent study by the […]
How Neuroscience Enhances Executive Coaching
By Deb Elbaum, PCC, CNTC Editor’s Note: Deb introduces a new weekly series of posts on executive coaching contributed by our Leadership Development team.. She is one of 30 highly qualified and specialized executive coaches who have joined us recently, doubling the number of executive coaches worldwide. When coaching executives and leaders, I like […]
Why Executive Coaching is the New Big Thing
Today we announced the addition of 30 more professional executive coaches to the team. We already had 34. Why would we want more? Because more of our clients worldwide want coaching services. Executive coaching and leadership development has shot to the front in recent years as a must-do tactic for accelerating the development of business […]
Shaping the Future ll – Finding the Banker of Tomorrow
Lydia Goutas is Managing Partner of Cornerstone Vienna and an authority on the current evolution of the banking industry. Following is Part 2 of her remarks to a recent conference on the challenges of finding the bank employees of tomorrow. Read Part 1 here. The future of banking includes meeting candidate expectations of brand and […]
Shaping The Future – The Bank Of Tomorrow
Lydia Goutas is Managing Partner of Cornerstone Vienna and an authority on the current evolution of the banking industry. Following is Part 1 of her remarks to a recent conference on the challenges of finding the bank employees of tomorrow. I was recently asked to speak on Shaping the Future – the topic of the […]
Eyes of Business Turn to Africa
Cornerstone London to Partner Sub-Saharan Trade Many companies with global strategies have been turning their eyes on Africa recently as the new frontier for business. Improved political environments, above average growth and the rich opportunities waiting in a continent that essentially has to start everything from scratch are predictably raising both eyebrows and interest. […]
Be the Warren Buffet of Leadership Recruiting
Seven Things to Look for in a New Leader When you are recruiting for an important executive position, the candidate’s experience, education and past accomplishments become table stakes. Especially if you are in a competitive, fast-moving business arena you have to know which of the candidates you are looking at is the game changer […]
The New Face of Business Leadership
Changes in the composition of the workforce in recent years are gradually establishing a new type of business leadership. In 30 years of global management positions, including with talent acquisition and development firms, I have not experienced such change in the conditions for successful management in such a short time. And the pace of […]
Have Quotas Put More Women On Boards?
With International Women’s Day approaching March 8, the latest Economist has a timely look at the progress made by women joining corporate boards in the last decade. It was 10 years ago that Norway decreed that 40% of the directors of listed companies must be women. At the time, the percentage in major countries was […]
6 Principles to Set New Employees up for Success
Putting down a dog because it is troublesome is too often an admission of failure. Nine times out of ten, the dog is a problem because of poor or non-existent training. The same goes for people, You’re not supposed to euthanize employees for behaving poorly. It’s a much better plan to find a coach, correct […]
Customer Experience the New Challenge for Banks
Banks in the past have been able to count on a stable customer base. In the business sector they have traditionally been confident of the loyalty of their SME and corporate customers, because all have more than one bank. In the retail market, many people – particularly in Europe – would bank where their parents […]
Understanding Culture Fit in China
In this age of culture fit, it seems only yesterday that western business leaders were worrying about how emerging markets would understand and react to them. Seems they worried for nothing. Today’s shoe is on the other foot and it is the western executives who wonder how to fit in. Last month, there was a […]
The Most Important Step to Successful Recruiting in 2018
C Happy 2018! A new year is upon us, but the old one won’t let go. Competent executives and key personnel will be as hard as ever to find. Digging for that exceptional leader will be even harder as the business world increasingly demands more than just “qualified” Most depressing, the devastating statistic that as […]