Talent Mgmt
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Understanding the Contributors to Employee Engagement
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The May 2007 issue of HBR gives us a broader view of employee engagement and defines some of the contributors for it. Not surprisingly, employee engagement is not made…
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Choosing the Right Talent Strategy to Drive Profits
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So how much does it cost to drive up revenues by 1%? There are many possibilities including: Cost of acquiring new talent versis: Cost of developing new talent Cost…
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Management as a Productivity Barrier
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Peter Drucker: “So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to do work.” A while back I had a post around “1 Jerk…
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An Interview with HR Smart
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A while back, I had the opportunity to speak with HR Smart, a talent management software vendor and service provider. As with many vendors, HR Smart has had applicant…
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Offshoring and Chinese English
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We’ve all been dealing with call centers getting routed to India for a few years now. In the beginning, the experiences were horrible as people navigated the many communications,…
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Organizing for Innovation
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You manage talent for a large organization that needs to innovate in order to stay competitive. How do you know what types of innovations are important and how do…
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HR Needs to Be Scared
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Why? Because we’re not doing our jobs and our bosses know it. Workforce Magazine published an article saying “Business Leaders Don’t See HR as Key to People Strategies” and…
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Creating Effective Collaboration Networks
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If having the best talent is almost useless if you can’t get them to collaborate, then to some degree our mission in HR is assuring that we jump to…
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The New Collaboration
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So much collaboration used to happen around “water cooler conversations.” These may have been informal lunches, chats in the halls, and even chats next to the water cooler in…
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How Talent Networks Increase Profits
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Getting the right people and retaining them is the start of building a great workforce. Engaging them to your brand is the next step. But the true work of…
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Keeping Your CEO’s Sleep Deprived
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One of the favored questions going around the vendor circles the last few years is “What keeps you awake at night?” Obviously they only ask this when they are…
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What is SuccessFactors Doing?
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It’s probably time for me to get back on the phone with these guys and poke around a bit. After all, it has been a very long while since…
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Leading Top Talent
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In a prior post, I noted that talent management’s role in engaging top talent was not related to the processes that are so popular in systems and magazines today….
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Over Managing Top Talent
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So who is your top talent? Basically it’s those few people who feel like they don’t really work all that hard to out produce 95% of your workforce. That’s…
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Evolving from Knowledge Management to Innovation Networking
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Knowledge management was all the rage a decade ago. People realized the need to maintain institutional and intellectual capital as employees filtered into an organization, created new knowledge, and…
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Wyatt Gets into Talent Software
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Mercer once had a benefits administration offering that they ended up selling to ADP. Then they partnered with SynHRgy (spelling?) to get into HRO. That didn’t pan out so…
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Innovation in Human Capital Management
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In my existential search for meaning in HR, I’ve tried for a very long time to understand what HR could really do for the business. Certainly talent and our…
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HR Strategy – What Really Matters?
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Harvard Business Review recently published that “Most traditional HR performance metrics – such as employee turnover rates, average time to fill open positions, and total hours of training provided…
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Workstream Talent Update
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The mid-market is an interesting place to be. Depending on how you define that market, it is either a place where services and products are converging, or is grossly…
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We Don’t Have the Infrastructure to Develop Talent
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A recent New York Times article ran a story about the increasingly large volumes of college applicants and the decreasing rates of admittance rates for college bound high school…