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 have reengineered our core talent processes from talent acquisition to performance to succession to learning and compensation. We have started to grow our talent thinking...
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A long (very long) time ago, I used to captain a cycling team. I had a crew of about 6 people that raced every week, and we all had our objectives and our roles. As part of our weekly training for races, we would drill the sprinter on sprinting exercises, have the guys who...
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Just a few short years ago, it really seemed like the vendor space was leading the market with all sorts of great new functionality and new ways to think about the world. After all, what would we have done if SoftScape had not coined the term “Talent Management”? (I’m pretty sure it was them,...
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but pretty much every time I receive a notification about farmville or gangster wars on Facebook, I pretty want to shoot the senders. If they are nieces or nephews, they get some allowances for being kids. But when I get literally 5 or 6 notifications in...
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My wife and I were recently at dinner with her sister’s family. One of the boys is about 14 years old, and as we were waiting for our table, he was looking through the bottles of wines displayed nearby. (No, he’s not drinking yet, we don’t live in France) He observed one bottle keenly,...
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At the end of 2009, Bersin did a great analysis of the two organizations that I can’t really beat. It’s a nice objective and score by score view of the vendors that is based in good factual data, and I’m going to take a different approach, but you should read Bersin’s post first. From...
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I hate taking things from the sports world because other than the occasional job, riding my bike more than I should and watching the Boston Celtics in the post-season, I really don’t follow sports. Fact is, I usually don’t even realize it’s Superbowl Sunday until the game is half over. But being a pseudo...
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We all know that the best way to find a job is by having great professional networks. God, looking for a job through job boards is possible, but oh so difficult. Shouldn’t the same go for internal staffing? Rather than having internal job boards and postings, we should be deploying social medias to facilitate...
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Julian had a childhood friend named Lucy. One day, he came home with one of those kindergarten drawings with a little girl and diamonds and presented it to his father. John asked him what the drawing was, and Julian replies, “It’s Lucy and the sky with diamonds.” Thus, the song. You can take some...
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So you’re thinking about getting married. You go out and buy a ring with a diamond in it, you figure out a romantic place to ask, and then you get down on one knee and POP the question. Somehow, she says “yes.” They key is that there are probably a large number of reasons...
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. Designing and using a set of reliable and valid leadership competencies is critical for organizations seeking to go from point A to point B. Leadership competencies are essentially an ideal profile specifying the types of skills, knowledges, and behavioral traits you want your leaders to possess, and therefore,...
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We’ve been talking about competencies for a while. Yeah, I know what they are, I know how they get implemented into a talent system, and I even know how they are integrated into critical talent processes. But you know what… I still don’t get it. We talk about competencies, but when we really get...
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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 between the cities is about 40 minutes, and some employees would benefit and have reduced commute, others would certainly pick up longer train or car...
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– How do you measure talent? – How do you determine who to develop? – How does that impact who gets developed and who gets money spent on them? We’ve talked about soccer moms and helicopter parenting on this blog. But we’ve never talked about how some of those kids participate in selection activities...
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I’ve been watching “Top Chef Masters” on Bravo TV. It takes some very well known chefs in the U.S. culinary scene and pits them against each other in a set of challenges. This week’s challenge (I am writing this on August 18) takes the last 4 chefs and pairs them with 3 souse chefs...
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Here is what the NY Times had to say about AIG executives and bonuses a few weeks ago: Now we can debate why A.I.G. felt it necessary to guarantee seven executives at least $3 million apiece when the economy was clearly on shaky ground. Perhaps we will find out these contracts were a bit...
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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 thought that recruiting and performance would level off as most organizations purchased and implemented modules and moved onto comp and succession. Unfortunately, it seems I’ve...
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A while back I observed some talent software from a leading talent management vendor. They were excited to show me their innovations around presenting a “seating chart” that would allow the user to visually see where employees were located within the organization. Obviously, the software also allowed drill through on each employee to provide...
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What the heck is Talent 2.0? Well first of all, it’s not here yet. Second of all, it probably makes more sense to define Talent 1.0 before I can theorize on Talent 2.0. Talent Management 1.0 is simply what we have today. It’s the thought that old school performance management, compensation administration, and succession...
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I was chatting with a good friend of mine whose company does work with organizations to analyze the value of ongoing IP and R&D. Ardent Research looks at current R&D and patent activity, surveys progress along that research, competitiveness against similar projects at other companies, and unique thought leadership that might give Ardent’s clients...
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