Workforce Planning
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Trend, Drill, Slice
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I love talking about and manipulating data. One of my favorite moments of the month is when I get together with one of the premier data people in HR…
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Next Gen Workforce Planning
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We’ve been doing a pretty good job with Talent Management in my opinion. We have pretty much deployed our systems or are in the midst of doing so. We…
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HR Leadership Selection
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I’ve been talking lately about how individual contributors are not always the best leaders. Here, Jeff Hunter talks about why sometimes the individual contributor can become a great executive,…
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Defining Mobility
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Talent is actually pretty tricky. We seem not only to have problems defining talent and talent application components, but we seem to not know what some of those components…
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Employee Selection and Workforce Diversity: Are Current Tools Up To The Task?
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. Hispanics, African Americans, Asians and Native Americans now constitute more than one-third of the U.S. population. By 2042, they are projected to make…
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Workforce Talent Retention
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I recently talked to an organization who is moving their organization from one end of the city to the opposite far end of the same area. The commuting time…
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Internal Succession Plans
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In the recent explosive growth of talent management, performance and recruiting always seemed to be the drivers, but compensation administration and succession planning always seemed close behind. I’ve always…
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HR Metrics: Turnover Rate
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Honestly, I could really care less about turnover rate the way most organizations calculate it. Sure, it informs me a little bit regarding the employer brand, and perhaps about…
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HR Metrics: Contractor fill rates
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So you probably have a specific number of independent contractors, consultants and agency employees within your organization. You also probably have not really given much thought around what percentage…
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Rethinking the Career Ladder
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Most career ladders go something like this • Associate 1 –> Associate 2 –> Professional 1 –> Professional 2 –> Senior Pro Ladder • Associate 1 –> Associate 2…
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Gaming and Collaboration
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Gen Y. They sit at their PC’s, play their games, and avoid all real social contact. As they enter the workforce, their lack of social skills will be a…
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The Value Proposition in a Multi-Dimensional Workforce
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Karen Beaman states that the workforce is changing: Multi-Generational – we are are now seeing up to four generations of workers working simultaneously in the workplace — Veterans, Boomers,…
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How Do You Identify High Potential Employees?
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The Institute for Corporate Productivity (is there an institute for everything?) recently conducted a study on high potential employees and the practices of organizations around them. If you want…
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Knowledge Infusion’s Talent Survey
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KI’s newest survey around talent presents some salient findings that we should all find quite obvious, but we all seem to ignore anyway. In the first paragraph below, Jason…
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Will Millennials Be Able to Manage?
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HBS had a question posted asking how well millennials would manage. The core of the discussion follows: In short, they are high maintenance, high risk, and often high output…
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Gen X: The Bridge to Gen Y
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There’s much speculation and conversation these days about Gen Y (or the millennial generation). Who understands them, how do they work, what makes them tick, and how do managers…
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MIT Sloan’s 5 Steps to Filling the Talent Gap
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Sloan’s take of the talent gap is a bit different that the one we usually talk about. Instead of the impending crisis in the U.S. from all the retiring…
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Your Workforce Bench Strength
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Jason Corsello has one of the most effective illustrations of workforce depth that I’ve seen. Every NFL team has a depth chart. Most are listed on their team’s website…
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Closing the Floodgates: Retaining Senior Talent When the CEO Leaves
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We’ve all seen it. A CEO leaves the organization and takes half of the senior management with him/her to their next gig. Then the new CEO comes in and…
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The Truth Behind Asia’s Talent Markets
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You’ll never hear me contesting the idea that Asian talent markets are ripe to be the major force in the world economy. After all, when you have half the…