Talent
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An Update with Sum Total
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I’ll admit. It caught me completely off guard to find out that the major learning vendors (Saba and Sum Total) have been offering talent management systems for the better…
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Another Interview with SuccessFactors
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It’s always good to talk to SuccessFactors. After all, like Kleenex and tissue paper, SuccessFactors has almost locked themselves and the brand most affiliated with talent management software. There…
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WorkStream 7.0 Demo
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I always like it when I get to see product. While I often do as part of my normal job, I don’t overlap meaning I won’t write about things…
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Thumbs Down for Video Resumes
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YourHRGuy.com wrote about video resumes recently, casting an overall thumbs down for them. Usually I’m the advocate of technology and doing/thinking about things differently. In this case, I’m going…
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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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Talent Management in a Knowledge Economy
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A recent issue of the Economist highlighted talent management in Big 4 accounting firms. This is especially interesting because while the rest of the economy is heading towards greater…
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SystematicHR’s Thoughts for 2008
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I suppose that I do need to put together a list of things I’m especially interested in this year. Many of these are already trends. Some of these will…
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SuccessFactors ULTRA
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Out comes a new release of SuccessFactors popular talent management system. My general opinion is that the leading talent management systems are all playing on a fairly level playing…
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Making Your Average Employee Your Best Employee
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The world is made up of C players – those where are totally average in performance. Let’s face it, most of us have to be C players, and your…
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How To Coach New Managers
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I think it was Pat Riley (basketball coach) who once said that the best performers are not usually the best coaches. They often don’t understand why it’s so hard…
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Failing your Employees Through Mentoring
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Harvard Business Review’s article “The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome” places the blame on failed mentorships squarely in the hands of the mentor, not the mentee. You start with a positive relationship….
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The Fear of Feedback
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I once worked for an organization where feedback was deemed as critical to the success of any project. In this case, these projects were sales cycles, but the general…
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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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A Recruiting Cheat Sheet
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As the world prepares for the News Year recruiting season, I thought I’d just link out to a resource for recruiters and applicants alike. Within this page are 100…
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Great Job Interview Questions
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I’d like to reference a post on CEOconsultant.com with a list of 10 great questions. To be honest, I found only a few of them innovative, but those are…
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College Recruiting: What Are You Paying For?
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I’ve always been a fan of the theory that a 4 year bachelors degree means almost nothing. Having gotten a degree in business administration, finance, Economics, or philosophy amount…
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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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The Top Role of Brand in Recruitment
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A recent Tom Peters entry criticizes the characterization of the “war for talent” as a competitive endeavor as opposed to an internal problem. He’s right, but this is nothing…
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Collaboration is Innovation
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When it comes to innovation, the myth of the lone genius dies hard. Most companies continue to assume that innovation comes from that individual genius, or, at best, small,…
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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…