Talent Development Hot Seat: Interviews with Executives and Learning & Development Leaders from Companies around the World

Talent Development Hot Seat: Interviews with Executives and Learning & Development Leaders from Companies around the World

The Talent Development Hot Seat features interviews and insights from leading talent development professionals and company executives who are passionate about developing their people. The host, Andy Storch, will ask each of them to share some of their successes, failures, challenges and advice for others as well as what trends they are seeing in the industry. The main goal of the podcast is to help listeners become more successful in their own jobs and accelerate their careers as Talent Development professionals.

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11: Resurrecting Talent Development and Building a Manager Bootcamp with Dannielle Yates of the Standard

Highlights from the interview include:

  • Why working in a high tech startup was the best leadership development experience Dannielle has ever had
  • Learning truly has to be on the job and get you out of your comfort zone to grow
  • The experience of moving from high tech to insurance
  • Working in tech was like hanging by her fingernails and loving every minute of it
  • Dannielle’s greatest accomplishment at The Standard - resurrecting leadership development and building a manager bootcamp
  • The importance of putting business leaders in front of the room to lead programs
  • Importance of involving managers to help them reinforce learning
  • Measuring the impact of successful talent programs
  • The culture change initiative that Dannielle has been a part of with regards to performance reviews
  • The importance of tying talent development back to company strategy
  • People join a company but leave a manager
  • Dannielle’s biggest mistake: developing a workshop and not dedicating enough time
  • Bringing role players into middle manager program
  • The challenge of applying the coaching practice to running the business
  • The higher up people go, the less feedback they get
  • How to stay on top of trends and learn from others in the industry
  • Advice for talent development professionals: promote yourself

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For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at andy@andystorch.com

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