Talent Mgmt
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EE’s quit to seek relationships, balance and mission
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In the “talent war” discussion, there is now even more room for concern. While we have always realized that growing retiree populations were decreasing the availability of senior talent, the development of young talent seems to be at risk as well. If younger employees are culturally resisting engagement (paritally defined as a willingness to allocate…
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Attraction and Retention vs. Cost Containment
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Deloitte and ISCEBS (International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists) recently pushed out their annual list of top 5 total rewards priorities for 2006Deloitte, 2006. “Top Five Total Rewards Priorities for 2006.” Retrieved from http://www.iscebs.org on January 31, 2006.. The group of individuals surveyed was ISCEBS members and Deloitte clients. Remember that the results are…
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Job Quality vs. Job Quantity
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Just a few days ago I wrote here about the impact of the poor U.S. educational system and the negative affect on talent in the near future (my wife tells me that my poor writing combined with my refusal to proof read is exemplary of this crisis). My basic premise was that the gradual decline…
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An Interview with Workstream
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Workstream has always been one of my favorite vendors. They have great depth and breadth in their TMS suite, but their financials have plagued them. In the last year, their competitors have made strong market moves and gained momentum. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Kevin Dobbs (Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business…
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Talent Part 4 – What Does Talent Want?!?
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Prior posts in this series Talent Part 1 – The Rules of Talent Talent Part 2 – HCI on Talent and Engagement Talent Part 2 – Talent Part 3 – Building Talent in Your Organization Yes… what do they want? And once we figure that out, how do we give it to them? So, does…
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Talent Part 2 – The Rules of Talent
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Talent Part 1 – HCI on Talent and Engagement As we pursue this discussion on Talent, it is important not to just focus on what it is (see part 1) but the entire framework and environment that surrounds our strategies for talent. For this I present an ERE article. Kevin Wheeler wrote about his 4…
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HR Marketing that actually makes sense!!!
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So Workstream.com has an offer out to Webhire.com clients to convert them at a “significant discount.” Business Wire, December 22, 2005. “Workstream Unveils WebHire Trade-in Program; Workstream Exchange Program Offers Displaced WebHire Customers Free Migration and Integration to Workstream Recruitment and TalentCenter Suite,” NewsEdge Corporation. Retrieved from http://workindex.com on December 27, 2005. “Workstream guarantees to…
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TMS Automation Debate Revisited
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There has been a bit too much debate on this topic not to bring it back in the new year. I think it really comes down to some of our fundamental philosophies on how we allow technology to impact our work and lives … how much control we actually give it. More discussion here: My…
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TMS (non) fiancials
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I seem to have made the quite unwise statement that I would attempt to evaluate the financials of several TMS vendors. Realizing now that I should take that statement back (entirely possible with just a quick stroke of the keyboard) and deny the whole thing, I submit the following with a few disclaimers (on top…
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Data & Metrics, Engagement, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Talent Acquisition, Talent Mgmt, Workforce Mgmt
Technology, Automation, and Talent Case Studies
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I found this article in CFO Magazine’s online Fall 2005 issue. The full text is quite long and located here. It is a well written piece by Scott Leibs from September 15, 2005. Anything in block quotes below is a direct excerpt. There are so many good examples of everything we’ve been discussion over the…
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Technology’s role in performance management
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Workforce Performance Solutions Magazine had this article about technology’s role in performance management. I thought it a bit obtuse, but I’ll expand on my ideas below. I thought we were going to read about EPS systems and deployment. Instead the article was about LMS and how to deploy learning. I didn’t really get the tie…
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Authoria tops the TMS vendors?
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In a rare show of self control, a vendor has incredible press that it doesn’t show off on it’s website. ***NOTE – I have been corrected. Sometimes the most obvious things are not readily apparent to me. The huge orange and red banner on Authoria’s hompage is an announcement that they won the shootout. Even…
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Employer branding, talent and engagement Part 3
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So what does all of this have to do with HR Technology and service delivery? Employee Self Service/Portal Manager Self Service/Portal HR Service Center Print Communications I am a firm believer that while your verbal communications are your most powerful communications, your internet based tools and your call center are your most frequent methods of…
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Employer branding, talent and engagement Part 2
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So last time we talked about communicating brand and an overview of a chain of effect beginning with the manager communication and ending with the shareholder returns via the Microsoft model. Andrew posted a link to David Kippen. I found this post about branding, talent acquisition and retention equally interesting. The following text is from…
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SuccessFactors TMS review
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So after being told that my talent management “scorecard” was incomplete and inadequate, I visited one of the SuccessFactors webinars and got a high level overview. Keep in mind that the opinions here are simply those gained from a 1 hour presentation and I don’t know what I don’t know – these are just first…
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Wharton: The Trade-off between Talent and Disruptive Behavior.
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OK – this is way outside of my comfort zone and expertise. However, Wharton pushed out a great article on the Tyrell Owens debate called ‘One for All’ or ‘One for One’? The Trade-off between Talent and Disruptive Behavior. There are a couple of factors here. First off, what is the tradeoff between talent and…
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Success Factors TMS
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Brent (of unknown origin) sent me a note about Success Factors: Hi. I’ve been looking at your blog as I’m doing research on talent management systems, and I noticed that SuccessFactors is not included anywhere. Is this because you don’t see it as a tms or is it just lower on the list? Brent My…
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Selecting a Performance MS whitepaper
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HR.com’s whitepaper by RecruitMax is an okay overview of selecting a PMS system. In my opinion, it was a bit functional in nature. Here are my highlights: Define expected outcomes: it was only one sentence, but keep in mind that when chaning systems, it’s the best time to reengineer processes. Know beforehand if you want…
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SoftScape gets thumbs up from Gartner
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Having gotten some (light) criticism in the past about not including SoftScape in my talent management roundup, here’s some good thoughts on them: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/sep/1180540.htm “Softscape, an industry leader in strategic people management technology and services, today announced that Softscape received the highest rating of “Strong Positive” in Gartner’s 2005 MarketScope for Employee Performance Management (EPM)…
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And Kenexa too
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This is more of a surprise than Authoria (last post before this). Kenexa was voted the top RPO. While I’m not sure who the competition was, I’m betting it includes the likes of Brassring and Recruitmax. Kenexa has not (to me) shown a great depth in product functionality, breadth in their product suite, or the…