Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Recruiting in Cyberspace (2)
Ernst & Young landed atop BusinessWeek’s third annual Best Places to Launch a Career ranking in September 2008, unseating rival Deloitte, thanks in part to a recruiting machine in overdrive.
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Your Fingerprints
It’s said, at least Ram Charan says, (where does he find the time to write all those books?) that you make better judgements about people, find more creative ways to deploy and develop their talents, and make a greater human impact when you take a sincere personal interest in each leader’s development.
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Recruiting in Cyberspace (1)
KPMG, the global auditing firm, is now on YouTube. Take a peek at KPMG Go, their college recruiting channel developed expressly for the new generation, the wikinationals.
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Women reach the top, a new leadership model
Taking advantage of positive emotions could help more women (and men) reach senior leadership positions, according to recent research by McKinsey.
Drawing on interviews with over 85 top female leaders over a period of 4 years and specialist literature, the research initiative has developed a leadership model called “centered leadership”.
While it can be applied to men, the model is especially relevant for female leaders who tend to carry the double burden of parenthood and management more often than men and experience work more emotionally. “Women start careers in business and other professions with the same level of intelligence, education, and commitment as men. Yet comparatively few reach the top echelons”, warn the authors…
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Rewards menu for 2.0 Leaders
Often leaders tell me that they want to have more rewards in their repertoire to drive employee performance, especially the emerging talent in the 25-35 year old demographic, but they operate in a resource constrained environment. They don’t have enough resources to reward people…
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Surplus of labour, but not of talent
Even with the current economic challenges, we are on the brink of a major war for talent, as many organizations that rely on knowledge workers already know. Today, there may be a surplus of labour, but not of talent. Over the next 10 years who will fill the management spots being vacated?...
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Is skepticism a leadership derailer?
In assessment situations I’m involved in (assessment centers, self-inventory assessment tools, in-person 360s), leaders who are seen as very skeptical tend to be viewed as less effective than others who do not display argumentative behaviors. Typically these executives seem cynical, distrustful, critical, doubting others’ true intentions, and prone to fault-finding…
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Build a strength or fix a weakness?
Often I ask leaders to consider the possibility that what’s stopping them from high performance is not that their manager won’t listen to them, or that the company has pigeonholed them, or that their current role won’t let them - although each of these factors may play some role…
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Gen Y and strong parenting
It has become almost a cliché to say that Generation Y is over-parented. You can’t fight the over-parenting phenomenon, so run with it. Your Gen Y employees want it. They need it…
Pierre Robitaille
2.0 Leaders
Wake up call to new CEOs
Most new chief executives are taken aback by the unexpected and unfamiliar new roles, the time and information limitations, and the altered professional relationships they run up against. Here are the common surprises new CEOs face, and here’s how to tell when adjustments are necessary…