Linda Sharkey, PhD

Operating and expanding business units offshore, selling in foreign markets, and managing global supply chains are just three of the many challenges that emphasize the importance of leaders that can transcend borders.

Winning with Transglobal Leadership will help prepare your organization to meet this need head-on with a framework for developing and training leaders that best fit your global growth strategies.

The book combines insights from a global team of author-experts. Together, they draw on an impressive range of resources—extensive original research, interviews with world-class high-performing executives, and decades of combined experience as senior executives, researchers, and consultants—to deliver an easily implemented process for assessing your organization's global capability and developing the leaders who will drive success. Inside Winning with Transglobal Leadership, you will find:

• Guidance on measuring and evaluating your organization's capacity to compete globally
• Five behavioral dimensions that global leaders need to develop
• Keys to assessing leadership candidates early in their careers
• The “Transglobal Leadership Matrix,” a tool for taking stock of your own skills and behaviors

At a recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, numerous CEOs in attendance cited a growing need for talent that could function successfully in new and emerging global markets. For leaders and managers, HR and training specialists, or anybody doing business today, Winning with Transglobal Leadership is the definitive handbook on satisfying the demand for specialized leadership skills—now and in the years to come.

How to Compete and Win in Today's Business Environment

Real-life business experience, actionable advice, and fact-based evidence—that's what sets Optimizing Talent apart from every other book on talent management.

Summarizing research conducted within more than four hundred Fortune 1000 companies, the authors:

• Provide an integrated Talent Optimization Framework™ and Survey for diagnosing talent optimization gaps.
• Demonstrate which actions drive integration and optimize talent.
• Show the improved results achieved by organizations that excel at each level in the Framework.

Topics include the importance of engaged leaders and a supportive culture, a detailed operating system that creates the foundation for high-performance talent, and the ability to measure meaningful results. In addition, each chapter includes case studies and a checklist so readers can easily implement similar programs and ideas at their own organization.

Optimizing Talent is a practical call-to-action for all levels of business leaders, managers, talent practitioners, and scholars and will help you think strategically about creating a talent-rich organization.

The Optimizing Talent Workbook will guide you through a hands-on, practical application of what you learned from Optimizing Talent: What Every Leader Needs to Know to Sustain the Ultimate Workforce. Not only will you learn to apply the Optimizing Talent Framework in your organization, you'll find that we've expanded on the foundation of Optimizing Talent to include the incredibly valuable topics of talent branding and neuroscience, as well as case studies of companies that have used the framework to great success. The Optimizing Talent Workbook provides a step-by-step strategic implementation approach for developing and retaining the best talent whatever your business!

Morag Barrett

• Have you been blindsided by a colleague's words or actions?
• Are you plagued with the worst of office politics, shifting alliances, and silos?
• Are your results impacted by poor communication or misaligned expectations?
• Do you need to establish rules of engagement that enhance relationships and accelerate success?

In Cultivate, SkyeTeam CEO and author Morag Barrett provides a simple but effective model for diagnosing the health of your relationships at work and recommends steps to develop your ability to form Ally Relationships.

Use Cultivate to:

• Identify your critical relationships and stakeholders.
• Apply the Relationship Ecosystem™ to diagnose the health of your relationships.
• Examine how context, culture, and communication impact your relationships.
• Understand how and why an Ally mind-set is vital to your career success.
• Apply relationship strategies to strengthen your professional relationships.

Whether you're a seasoned leader or starting out in the workplace, you'll see the world of work in a whole new way. Morag delivers practical lessons and tools to navigate every relationship in your career.