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3D Vertical Development – Building leadership capabilities for the future

VIDEO. MDV Consulting's Vertical Leadership Development conference.

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Career transitions and onboarding with MDV Consulting

VIDEO: Career transitions and onboarding into new roles can be challenging. MDV Consulting helps organisations to have a structured plan to manage the transitions of leaders into new roles more quickly and successfully.

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#Executivehire #SuccessionPlanning #Onboarding

Using vertical development to develop leaders for a complex and unpredictable world

VIDEO: Summarising MDV Consulting's White Paper: What in the world is going on? – a guide to using vertical development or adult development to foster leaders capable of thriving in a world of increased complexity and unpredictability.

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#Complexity #LeadershipDevelopment #VerticalDevelopment

Cracking Talent Management

The business case for a a good talent management strategy is strong. We look at some of the mistakes made and steps for success in cracking the Talent Management nut.

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Reading time: 7 mins

#TalentManagement #TalentPipelines #Leadership

The 3D vision of vertical assessment

How to assess the capabilities needed by leaders to navigate uncertainty was the topic of our March 2017 roundtable. A summary of that discussion.

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Reading time: 9 mins

#Assessment #Leadershipassessment #Capacities

Uncertainty, What Uncertainty?

Is the world really becoming more uncertain or does it just feel that way? What are the major trends underpinning this insecurity and can we use this knowledge to start visualising what our world might look like in the mid-century?

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#Disruption #AI #Turbulence #VUCA

Perfecting the performance conversation

A summary from our Perfecting Performance Management roundtable, September 2016. We take a look at how performance management is changing and some key areas to focus on when reviewing your own performance management approache.

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Reading time: 10 mins

#PerformanceManagement #Feedback #Appraisals

Taking the fear out of feedback

Even high performing talent find performance management conversations challenging - both to give and to get. We look at how tailoring performance conversations to the individual’s stage of development delivers significantly more productive feedback.

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Reading time: 5 mins

#Appraisals #PerformanceManagement #Feedback

Do appraisals really have to be worse than going to the dentist?

How companies are moving away from the traditional backward looking performance review towards a culture of more continuous feedback. We also look at 7 principles to consider when seeking to build a culture of continuous feedback.

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Reading time: 11 mins

#Appraisals #Feedback #PerformanceManagement

The value of Vertical Leadership Development in a volatile world

Developmental psychologists have been writing for the past 40 years about how people continue to grow and develop throughout adulthood. We look at what exactly is vertical development and how it might inform approaches to leadership development?

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Reading time: 20 mins

#VerticalDevelopment #LeadershipDevelopment

3D Vertical Leadership Development – Event Summary

Over 70 organisational development, leadership development and talent specialists convened to learn about and debate all things vertical. Here is a summary of the discussion.

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Assessing the leadership challenge in legal services firms

In the the legal sector, unique challenges are experienced. We look at how a 'developmental assessment' approach might engender more value than traditional approaches in identifying, selecting and promoting.

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Reading time: 11 mins

#ProfessionalServices #Assessment #Promotion #Hiring