Learning Mgmt
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Communicating with a Millennial (Part 4: The Transition to Work)
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So what are the right expectations for a millennial just entering toe workforce? Ryan states “I find that managers are not giving me the appropriate guidance necessary for me to grow in the company. They’re too concerned with what’s going…
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Learning and Gaming Technology: The Advantage of Simulations
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Efficiency and effectiveness are derived from three specific advantages that simulations have over the experience based learning. First, simulations eliminate risk and the painful consequences of poor decisions. Simulation has the ability to not just mitigate, but completely eliminate the…
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Educating for Innovation
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Once again, from the Talent UnConference (TalUnCon) hosted by Electronic Arts on January 25, 2006. ((From the Talent UnConference, January 25, 2007. Ideas expressed in this post may be directly attributed to the TalUnCon or might have been triggered by…
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Engagement Insights From a Dumb Little Man
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Hey… Dumb Little Man is the name of his website, ok? Coming from a non HR practitioner he has some great insights about retaining engaging employees. In fact, I’d be impressed if some of these ideas came from HR practitioners…
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Change Management, Communications, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Knowledge Mgmt, Learning Mgmt, Portal
HBR – P2P and Web 2.0 Leadership Development
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In 1995, two young U.S. Army officers who had been friends at West Point found themselves living down the street from each other at a base near Honolulu. Nate Allen and Tony Burgess were both in their first stints as…
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About Stretchwork and Career Management
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Julia Hanna recently wrote about the use of stretchwork applied to career advancement in the August 9 issue of HBS Working Knowledge. Stretchwork has been a tool utilized by performance management professionals for ages. In truth, we in HR have…
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Learning to Talent Management Integration
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We’ve already talked about performance, compensation and succession. Adding learning to the equation is fairly simple, but again, it’s a two way street (perhaps more circular than linear). And once again, it all starts with jobs and the competencies that…
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Succession Planning to LMS, EPM Integration
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Integration between the various functional “modules” that make up a talent management suite (TMS) are numerous, and in the next couple of days, I’ll cover a couple variations. The first is data integration that revolves around a succession planning process….
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On Engagement and Learning
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The following is heavily plagiarized from Fortune Magazine (reference below) Francis Upton was a Princeton-trained mathematician. Working for Thomas Edison, he wrote to his father, “The strangest thing to me is the $12 that I get each Saturday, for my…
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Is Talent Management Strategic?
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Talent Management in and of itself is not a strategic function. Similar to core HR practices, the actual task and process isn’t strategic. One should be especially careful with Talent Management Systems (TMS). No system (TMS, HRMS, or anything else)…
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HR Technology Functional Utilization
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Looking at CedarCrestone (of Cedar Group fame) and their survey of HCM applications, it’s interesting to see the trends of what everyone is using, what they will be using, and how these trends debunk current myths and assumptions we (or…
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Talent Part 3 – Building Talent in Your Organization
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Prior posts in this series” Talent Part 1 – The Rules of Talent Talent Part 2 – HCI on Talent and Engagement For part 3 of this series, I’m going to focus on building talent through talent acquisition and learning…
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KM and Learning organizations
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Gautam turned me onto this blog. So… What IS up with HR and Knowledge Management? I don’t hesitate to wonder about HR’s motivation when it comes to KM. Truly, when we talk about “strategic HR” and the fact that as…
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Cisco Systems uses games to help teach employees
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We’ve talked a lot about the use of games and the next generation of employees. Cisco is employing this strategy, but their gaming/learning technology is still in its infancy (as shown by the fact that they are modeling on a…
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Generation gap and learning
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I was sitting at my brother and sister-in-law’s house last night and the conversation turned to their teenage son. He was sitting in front of the computer playing some shoot and kill video game with some friends on-line. Remembering the…
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Talent Management Scorecard updated
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Here’s my original post. I have updated Authoria and included Softscape. So an integrated point solution in the talent space should/may include (1) talent acquisition, (2) new hire onboarding, (3) performance management, (4) compensation management, (5) learning management, (6) succession…
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Questionable truth in marketing
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Not to be a naysayer, but sometimes cool things bug me the wrong way when I’m pretty sure the message is a lie. Today, Skillsoft and Plateau Systems are introducing the “first” integrated LMS and LCMS to be available later…
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Tough adoption for e-learning
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I must admit that while I’m an avid reader of news and information on the web, e-learning just irritates me. On the web, I want to be able to control the pace of my interactions with the PC and go…
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Top 5 HR priorities from Genesys survey
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Take this with a grain of salt as this is a Genesys press release and these “trends” may just be application areas they are strong in. http://www.genesyshcm.com/Docs/news/trends_survey_results-pr.html I’ve never paid too much attention to Genesys until recently as I’ve considered…
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Big beautiful HRMS ain’t so beautiful anymore
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Yup, the day of the massive ERP suite and a huge, built-out HRMS system is dead. In HR, we now back to the modularized applications, but this time around, we can effectively tie everything together on the back end and…