High potential : how to spot, manage and develop talented people at work /
"In today's competitive job market, can employers afford to spend large sums on recruitment, and then simply let talented people go? High Potential provides a practical framework for managers to create a strong, strategic vision for a high-performing, high-potential workforce. Updated to r...
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Group Author: | ; |
Published: |
Bloomsbury Business, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
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Publisher Address: | London : |
Publication Dates: | 2018. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | Second edition. |
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Summary: |
"In today's competitive job market, can employers afford to spend large sums on recruitment, and then simply let talented people go? High Potential provides a practical framework for managers to create a strong, strategic vision for a high-performing, high-potential workforce. Updated to reflect more recent research in the area, the book presents an accessible guide to clearly understanding and defining potential, and how to manage high-potential employees and develop their career. New case studies show how businesses have used the concepts outlined in the book to nurture future talent in the workplace and gain a real competitive business advantage" -- From the publisher. |
Item Description: | Revised edition of the author's High potential, 2014. |
Carrier Form: | xiii, 342 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [312]-327) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781472953490 (hardback) : 1472953495 (hardback) |
Index Number: | HF5381 |
CLC: |
F243.2 F241.1 |
Call Number: | F241.1/M174/2nd ed. |
Contents: | Potential -- What is potential -- Potential -- The style and character of potential -- Intelligence: capacity for learning and growth -- Intelligence at work -- Overview of personality -- High potential personality traits and leadership -- Emerging trends in personality testing -- Experience: the most brutal of instructors -- The performance delusion -- How to gain experience -- Workplace culture and values -- Motivators and attidues -- The dark side and derailment -- The toxic triangle and derailment prevention -- The dark side traits and characteristics -- Assessment: techniques and applications -- Assessment: methods to learn about other people -- Methods for assessming people at work -- Selection: choosing the right people -- Training -- Development systems -- Developing and coaching high potential -- OT 23) : retention: keeping the best and the brightest -- References. |