The Gartner Talent Angle

Marc Effron, author of 8 Steps to High Performance: Focus on What You Can Change (Ignore the Rest), joins the Talent Angle to discuss how to cut through the noise and boost workplace performance. He shares what behavioral changes and practical steps employees can take to improve performance and deliver outstanding results. 

*This excerpt was taken from our 2018 interview. It's time to stop thinking of your talent in terms of Type A or B personalities. Instead, seek Type Rs -- the individuals that turn challenges into opportunity in times of upheaval, crisis and change. Ama and Stephanie Marston, co-authors of Type R and dynamic mother-daughter team, join the Talent Angle to discuss their concept of Transformative Resilience. They offer advice on how to identify and develop the talent in your business who not only embrace change and disruption, but also emerge form it in a stronger shape than before. 

To prepare for the future, organizations should focus on the prospective workforce currently in or entering college. Bob Moesta joins the Talent Angle to discuss how students “hire” colleges to prepare and qualify them for future jobs, with the majority of graduates, however, leaving unprepared to join the workforce. Tune in to this week’s episode to hear how your organization should not only consider changing education requirements when hiring, but should also empower current and future employees to make more productive higher-education decisions. 

*This excerpt was taken from our 2018 interview. Annie Duke, author of Thinking in Bets, believes that the key to long-term success is to think in bets. She joins us on the Talent Angle to discuss how business leaders can be more like good poker players: less vulnerable to reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and destructive habits in decision-making. 

Expressing employee appreciation has been linked to increases in job satisfaction, engagement and retention, however, gratitude remains vastly underutilized by managers and executives. On this episode of the Talent Angle, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton offer tips and guidance from their forthcoming book—Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results—on how to enhance effectiveness by incorporating gratitude into your leadership style.

As the end of the year approaches, we are re-releasing our top podcasts from 2019. Please enjoy our conversation with Julie Zhuo, VP of Product Design at Facebook, as she reveals practical advice on how managers can help their teams achieve greater outcomes. 

As the holidays approach, we are re-releasing our top podcasts from 2019. Please enjoy our conversation with Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School Professor and author of The Fearless Organization, as she shares how psychological safety in the workplace is critical for fostering employee performance and innovation. 

*This excerpt was taken from our 2018 interview. Is your organizational structure your Achille's Heel? Former VP at Yahoo and co-author of Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail, believes that any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed for failure in the 21st. Hear Salim discuss the lessons that business leaders can learn from the new breed of companies that are scaling 10 times faster than established organizational structures. 

The best leaders don’t just cope with stress, they repurpose it into happiness. Sean Webb, author of Mind Hacking Happiness, tells us how. On this episode of the Talent Angle, Sean Webb shares how to identify and avoid personal stress triggers to boost happiness and lead through high-stress situations.

*This Spotlight was edited from our hour long interview from 2018. Patty McCord, author of Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, joins us to discuss her experience as Chief Talent Officer at Netflix and her fringe ideas that led to establishing the universally known, multi-billion dollar tech giant.