Posts for: Insight

How Executives Can Help Young Leaders Shine

Early career leadership is daunting. There’s still a vast amount to learn, and at the same time, leaders are still...

How to Bring Curiosity, Courage, and Objectivity to Talent Conversations

Future talent and succession planning are high on the HR agenda. RHR’s Dan Russell and Cristina Jimenez recently hosted an...

Team Effectiveness: Purpose, Power, and Profit—How to Thread the Needle

Against a backdrop of a looming recession, a cost-of-living crisis, and mass layoffs, business leaders are asking themselves how they...

Feedback: Why Executives Struggle and How to Overcome It

Any teacher, coach, or elite performer understands that accurate, well-timed feedback enhances performance. Yet many executives are uncomfortable with the...

Talent Management Strategies for Mitigating Leadership Risk in PE

Ask successful investors what they look for in portfolio companies, and many will tell you they’d rather put money on...

Will You Hit the Ground Running as a First-Time CEO?

In our last blog, we shared five key pieces of advice to help first-time CEOs hit the ground running when...

Getting It Right as a First-Time CEO

At RHR, we work with hundreds of CEOs every year. Many are first-time CEOs from outside the organization, and transitioning...

Trust, Transparency, and Mutiny in the Workplace

Employees in the UK are sending a signal to their leaders that enough is enough. From nurses to paramedics, midwives...

Succession Management: Part of the Business Continuity Jigsaw Puzzle

Succession management is business continuity planning for talent. But while 90% of HR leaders agree that succession management can be...

Thinking Outside the 9-Box

For time immemorial (well, since the 1970s when it was developed by McKinsey & Co.), the 9-box grid has been...