6 Ways to Recruit Superstar Talent to Your New Company
By Bastian Bergmann. Recruiting in today’s ultra-competitive job market is tough and success can often hinge on the team that you already have in place.
Three Things: How to Inspire Others
Leaders are expected to inspire others. But how does one induce something as intangible as inspiration? The answer: by performing a specific set of behaviors. Leaders need to actually care about their causes, make their messages personally relevant to their followers and support others by making sure the right people are in the right roles.
Faculty Plan Puts a Premium on Hiring Top Multidisciplinary Scholars
...UVA’s plan to hire faculty in strategic, collaborative areas of research and scholarship involves nine schools whose deans submitted proposals for interdisciplinary faculty positions that build on academic strengths and focus on increasingly important social and scientific issues. The program is part of an aggressive five-year campaign the Board of Visitors approved last fall.
The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice
Seeking and giving advice are central to effective leadership and decision making. Yet managers seldom view them as practical skills they can learn and improve. Receiving guidance is often seen as the passive consumption of wisdom. And advising is typically treated as a matter of “good judgment”—you either have it or you don’t—rather than a competency to be mastered. Read full article here.
How Successful Leaders Think
We are drawn to the stories of effective leaders in action. Their decisiveness invigorates us. The events that unfold from their bold moves, often culminating in successful outcomes, make for gripping narratives. Read more.
Susan Gaines
Susan Gaines joined the Executive Search Group in June 2011. In her time at the University, she has recruited top talent to join the University of Virginia. She led vital searches such as the Chief Communications Officer, Chief Audit Executive and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty at the Curry School of Education.
Catherine Lindqvist
In her three decades of recruiting and executive search, Catherine Lindqvist has been involved in hundreds of leadership transitions and has built and led executive search organizations in both the academic and private sectors. She is currently the Executive Director of the University of Virginia’s Executive Search Group, reporting to the Office of the President.
Pages
