Posts for: High Potentials

How Organizations Fail High-Potential Talent

It’s a wonderful feeling when a home-grown high-potential executive moves upward and takes their rightful place in the C-suite. Everyone...

Four Ways to Maximize Return on Investment on People

Clients frequently come to us with concerns about their people. “I wasn’t expecting her to jump ship.” “He looked so...

Five Challenges That Can Derail Hypergrowth Start-Ups

RHR has been engaged to advise on leadership and management challenges by venture capital (VC) firms and founders of companies...

Good Luck with Those Development Plans

While I have your attention, let’s (not) talk about what makes a good development plan. After years of working with...

Succession Planning for 21st Century Talent: Part 2

It is often said you can only learn how to run the second half of a marathon when you’ve run...

Is Your Succession Planning Process “All Ornaments and No Tree?”

I work with a CHRO who once described her company’s succession planning process as “all ornaments and no tree.” On...

Succession Planning for 21st Century Talent: Part 1

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is predicting and developing 21st century talent. As always, should you or...

Leverage Your Company’s Pivotal Talent to Maximize the Impact on Results

When the countdown to the new fiscal year begins, companies take a hard look at next year’s spend and carefully...

Setting a High Bar for Transformation

The conversation in the chairman’s office was serious. Sitting in high-backed leather seats around a highly polished table, we talked...

Working in Fear: Moving from Uncertainty Toward Trust

Corporate environments are often defined by an inherently competitive environment where clarity on how to be successful becomes increasingly more...