Winning the Talent Shift: Three Steps to Unleashing the New High Performance Workplace - Hardcover

Aldrich, Berta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119768713 ISBN 13: 9781119768715

Publisher: Wiley, 2020

Synopsis

Embrace a more diverse workforce and achieve unprecedented talent and creativity in your organization

The global marketplace has changed, and companies have found themselves struggling to hire and retain high-performing talent. Winning the Talent Shift: Three Steps to Unleashing the New High Performance Workplace explains how companies can overcome the three main barriers to their success and unlock the potential in today's new workplace.  
Winning the Talent Shift envisions a world where companies are fully equipped to exceed the challenges posed by the new global marketplace. Celebrated author, consultant, and executive Berta Aldrich argues if companies want to achieve future success, they must redesign their talent strategy using three important steps proven to increase revenues, engage teams and leaders, and set companies on the path to industry leadership. 
Winning the Talent Shift leverages the latest empirical research, experiences from over 1,000 team members and executives, and leadership classes that have spanned the globe to candidly reveal actionable solutions to what is holding most companies back from high performance.  
Winning the Talent Shift will show how companies can: 

• Retain their high performers who produce 2-500% more than an average employee but are more likely to leave today's organizations
• Select and retain the new, high performing leader. According to Gallup, great leadership is the #1 determinant of company success, but less than 25% of today's leaders are considered great 
• Identify and develop women and people of color who can be exceptional leaders. Only 1 in 5 women hold C-suite roles today

Perfect for boards, C-suite, and aspiring male and female high performers, Winning the Talent Shift bravely shows how to recognize barriers, replace them with high performance attributes, and redesign the workplace to create the potential for sustainable growth and industry leadership for years to come.
Listed as "One of the best Human Resources books of all time" - BookAuthority

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About the Author

BERTA ALDRICH is an expert in business strategy, leadership, talent development, and corporate team performance. Successful industry leading programs and teams under her leadership have been lauded by the Wall Street Journal, Boston Consulting Group, Greenwich & Associates, Conference Executive Board, and Graphis, The International Journal of Visual Communications, for innovation, excellence, and leadership. She is President of Berta Aldrich, LLC, an executive coaching and training company dedicated to accelerating the advancement of high performing, diverse executive leaders and teams in a variety of industries across the globe. The recipient of numerous awards and accolades, she is a highly decorated leader, expert and speaker who has made it her life's mission to create workplaces that inspire high-performing teams that work together to achieve their greatest impact, in and outside the workplace.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Winning the TALENT SHIFT

"Aldrich confronts the brutal facts that exist in the workplace today and yesterday. She shares valuable insights for leaders to reflect on, observe, and personally assess how they may be creating a toxic environment unknowingly and steps they can take to become even better professional leaders."
Dan Houston, CEO, Principal Financial Group

"Winning the Talent Shift tackles head-on the workplace barriers to success and unveils the new playbook for hiring and retaining a competitive and diverse workforce to unlock superior corporate performance. Chock full of insights it's an action-oriented read that all levels of the organization can benefit from."
Dawn Zier, former CEO, Nutrisystem

"The fight for high-quality hires is fierce, yet the way American businesses are going about finding and nurturing their own in-house talent is all wrong. Berta Aldrich nails the problem here and offers up a set of actionable solutions, based on empirical research and drawing upon her own journey to becoming a high-performing leader in a male-dominated field. She clearly articulates how to remove the barriers that hold back high performers and women in the workplace and create a more gender-balanced, modern organization starting at the top."
Diana Britton, Managing Editor, Wealthmanagement.com

"Author Berta Aldrich has synthesized the importance of investing in talent development to enhance the skills needed for top performers to excel in today's competitive business climate. With an emphasis on women and other underrepresented communities, this book examines best practices and tactics through real life scenarios that will pay dividends for both the individual and the firms supporting them. A must-read for anyone who's goal it is to effectively lead and inspire others."
Suzanne Siracuse, CEO, Suzanne Siracuse Consulting Services, LLC

"If your company wants to continue to grow or have a strong presence in your industry, this is a must-read. True to her own leadership style, Berta candidly reveals what is holding most companies back from creating their own long-term success while providing practical, real-time changes to creating a high-performance organization."
John Hyland, Managing Director and Co-founder, Private Advisor Group

From the Inside Flap

Winning the Talent Shift: Three Steps to Unleashing the New High Performance Workplace shows readers how to create an environment in which the full potential of a high-performing, diverse workforce is unlocked and empowered. Freed from the current limitations of outdated ideology, HR systems, and modern-day bias, Winning the Talent Shift envisions a working world in which today's invisible barriers are removed and team members, high performers, and true leaders, regardless of gender or ethnicity, are able to work freely together to achieve unprecedented success.

There has been a seismic shift in the workplace over the past 30 years and most companies have failed to keep pace. And those that have tried made minimal progress in leveraging the true impact of this new, diverse talent. Why? Because they've embraced a new opportunity with the same old-world approach employing a diverse workforce into entrenched cultures that value combativeness, power, and politics.

For companies to create truly high-performing teams that can maximize all of today's available talent, they must integrate their workforces by recognizing current barriers, replacing them, and redesigning their workplace with expectations that allow all individuals regardless of gender, age, or ethnic background to work together and capture today's ever changing marketplace. Without this, the very people you are hiring to provide a fresh perspective, innovative ideas, and lead highly engaged teams are being underutilized, and even targeted, costing companies billions of dollars in reduced productivity, turnover, and legal claims each year. There is a better way, and Winning the Talent Shift will show you exactly what it is.

In an engaging and accessible style, author Berta Aldrich candidly demonstrates how executives and corporate leaders can regain a competitive edge in today's workplace and marketplace by identifying and overcoming the obstacles that exist within their organizations. She provides both the critical insights and actionable steps that will transform the workplace and supercharge team performance and excellence. Using empirical research and real-world experiences, companies that can make the talent shift will be poised to win and experience increased productivity, more highly engaged leaders and teams, and higher overall revenue.

Winning the Talent Shift argues in favor of collaborative, integrated methods that leverage the greatest innate talents of men and women, rather than a combative, siloed approach. Aldrich argues that boards, executives, and C-suite leaders, the ones ultimately responsible for their organizational performance and cultures, are on tap to lead the shift, creating an environment where true leaders, high performers, all genders, and people of color work together to create an inspired, new high-performing workplace that can help everyone achieve more than they ever imagined.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119768713
• ISBN 13: 9781119768715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224