Talent Mgmt
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All Posts, Engagement, Gamification, HR Strategy, Learning Mgmt, Social, Social and Gamification, Social Talent, Talent, Talent MgmtI Could Have Been A Ditch Digger
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Note of warning: Stereotypes follow in plenty. Last year I wrote a post titled “I could have been a rice farmer.” It’s completely true that had my parents not moved from Taiwan to the United States before I was born, the possible alternatives to my life are infinite. However, I probably would not actually have…
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Fooling Ourselves
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I’ve been watching with fascination over the last couple years as countires have rebelled against their governments (Arab Spring in 2011), and American citizens have condemned corruption, and congratulated the populous for rising up and forcing change. It’s fascinating to me because we are so unaware of what has been going on around us for…
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Back to Basics
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It seems to me that there has been a renewed focus on core HR. Now I need to tell the truth, I really thought core HR was dead. I mean, it will always be around, but with the whole industry moving on to cooler things like analytics and talent management, who cares about core HR…
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Linking Communication Collaboration and Talent
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There was a time when if you wanted to collaborate, the only way to do it was either walking over to someone and having a conversation, or perhaps you could call someone’s “secretary” and leave a message. Then we got voice mail. Then we got email. We’ve been trapped in an email world for over…
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Why Can’t We Implement Succession?
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I can’t quite remember when it was, but on a recent Bill Kutik Radio Show, Bill mentioned, “One of the things that drives me crazy, is every survey that comes out, everyone says that Succession Planning is their top priority, and then the following year, the same survey states that nobody implemented it.” Bill’s absolutely…
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Talent Particles in Action
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Until tonight, I’ve never seen a lightning storm from above the clouds. I’m not sure what percentage of lightning strikes actually are visible below the clouds, but this storm over Texas that I’m watching has a few lightning bolts per second all localized in a small area over the course of the last 5 minutes…
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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 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 past…
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Corporate Strategy & Talent Management
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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 would…
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What’s Next?
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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, but…
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Going Too Far: Social Media Notifications
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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 a…
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What does Irony Taste Like?
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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, and…
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Taleo versus SuccessFactors
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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 my…
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Great Individual Contributors <> Great Leaders
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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 Celtics…
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The Error of Operational Reports
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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 core…
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Salary and Benefits are NOT Engagement Tools
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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 she…
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Leadership Competency Design – Five most common mistakes
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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, exhibit. …
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Competencies versus Critical Experiences
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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 down…
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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 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 rides.…
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Scouting for Talent – An athletic view of the world
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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 within…