Talent Mgmt
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The True Costs of Unionization
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In an attempt to be apolitical (which is truly difficult for me), I was reading a New York Times article about United mechanics entering into a training program after layoffs. The success rate of returning those mechanics was dismal if the measurment was to get them into a job with similar pay. The success factor…
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Retaining Your Senior Talent
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I (and many others) keep talking about the major reductions in senior level talent coming our way. Retirees will make up an increasing percentage of our population in the coming decades, and there are too many large shoes to fill. One of the major challenges is to understand how we as HR organizations can enhance…
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Performance Management Integration
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Jim Holincheck recently wrote about some findings from HR Executive’s survey of performance management practices. I’m not surprised that performance management is still on the rise – undoubtedly it will be on the rise for quite some time as new installations keep growing and eventually upgrades and replacements of systems will feed the vendors. It’s…
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A Checklist for Leadership Development
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We all hate this talk about “HR having a seat at the table.” It’s a tagline that getting old and perhaps a bit insulting. The truth is that HR has the influence to spearhead initiatives such as leadership development, but that influence is effective only when combined with the ability to mobilize the senior executives…
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Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It
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Talent management is clearly one of the morst popular strategies in HR today. Getting the most attention are components of talent management that can be systematized through software vendors like Taleo, SuccessFactors, Vurv, Authria and many others. Talent Acquisition, performance management, learning maangement and compensation management are quicker hits because implementation of process and success…
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Employer Branding and Talent Management
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The Human Resources IQ Blog has a nice write-up for creating a great employee value propusition and it’s affect on attracting and retaining talent. At systematicHR, we’ve been using the term employer branding, but if fact the two terms may be slightly different. I actually see the employee value proposition as a subset of the…
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An Interview With SuccessFactors
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I had an opportunity to speak with Rob Bernshteyn from SuccessFactors about the direction they are heading. I’ll admit that SuccessFactors has been one of my favorite talent management vendors for a long time. I have always thought of them as having excellent functionailty and technology. Their data center and application delivery from a technology…
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The Future of HR Technology
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I’m looking at a convergence of talent, portals and business intelligence. The next wave of technology is not around any specific functionalty. The next wave is going to be about integration with the rest of the business. Talent, portal and BI technology all still have long runways in terms of development and sales. In now…
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The Future of Talent
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Forget about talent management. What we need is talent development. Jason Corsello of the Yankee Group and The Human Capitalist wrote about emerging talent management software trends a few weeks ago. As part of those trends, a Yankee Group survey indicated that the growth of that HR technology industry segment would double by 2009. ((The…
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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) can make you and your organization strategic. However, the philosophy you develop around the task…
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Talent Management System Vendor List
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Stumbled across one of the longest lists of talent management vendors I’ve seen. To be honest, I don’t know many of these. As many of you know, I don’t consider recruiting only solutions to be talent management (TMS), but a sub-class of talent acquisition (TAS). Anyway, the TAS vendors are included in the list.
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Authoria Introduces Recruiting
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Authoria Recruiting is big news simply because it expands the reach of the talent management suite. Most vendors claiming to be TMS have either been talent acquisition without the rest, or talent management without the aquisition. Recruitmax was the notable exception for a long time, but with Kenexa buying WebHire, Authoria releasing Authoria Recruiting, Taleo…
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Responsibility – Part 2
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How does your HR organization take responsibility for nurturing your high potentials? Launch a formal, high-level succession-planning conference for senior executives facilitated by corporate HR and outside experts; outline the leadership development process; and cascade it through the company. Create leadership development programs that fill holes in your company’s talent portfolio to ensure a deep…
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Gautam Ghosh – The new HR professional?
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Gautam wrote this quite a long time ago, and I’ve been intending to reply for a while. As long as I’m writing about leadership these days, seemed like the right time. The upcoming generation of leaders strongly believes that HR can influence a company’s bottom line, especially in the knowledge economy, where talent is a…
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Workstream Product Enhancements
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The Talent management space is always a complex market. If you think about the talent management suite, you’re talking about workforce development, learning managmeent, performance management, compensation management, succession planning, and probably a few more I can’t think of off the top of my head. Vendors need to develop not just a single product suite,…
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Conclusion
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Over the last few days I’ve talked about various components of talent management. While I know talent is the hot theory these days, it’s simply a fusion of old ideas that haven’t been modified to fit a more strategic HR. Simply put, we need to do more. Here are my recommendations: We need to find…
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 3
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I’m trying to figure out how I chose succession and workforce planning as “what’s right with talent management.” (if you read to the end, you’ll find out why the post is named “what’s wrong”) I’m actually not all that excited about what we’re doing here, but at least I think we’re on the right track.…
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What’s Wrong with Talent Management – Replys
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Nobody ever said I was un-opinionated. To those who may think I’m just an instigator, I actually do believe in what I’ve written and think that (1) performance is broken in 99.9% of the organizations out there, (2) HR does not do a good job in integrating our talent management capabilities to the rest of…
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 2
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Don’t we all love competencies? I’ll admit that understanding them is critical to managing a workforce as part of an HR strategic plan. However, the linkage of competencies to talent acquisition and learning is insufficient when thought of as a business strategy. Until competencies are tied to broader collaboration, project planning and knowledge management strategies…
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What’s wrong with Talent Management – Part 1
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Let’s think about this. Evaluating performance is a good thing, right? So as an HR practitioner (and being realistic about it), how many organizations do you know that apply performance well? How many performance plans have you seen where the performance process actually impacts increases in engagement and productivity? Let’s face it, performance management is…