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 part of a year (or longer). I’ve been advocating this for…
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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 is more hype than ever around talent management and implementations, but…
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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 I see when consulting for a client. In the upcoming months…
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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 to go with everyone else and pronounce this one to be…
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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 Corsello states that HR people still don’t know how to present…
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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 levels of knowledge work, the Big 4 are arguably at the…
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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 never be, but are things perhaps only I am interested in….
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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 field. They are all pretty well integrated, they all have good…
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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 organization will always be made up of them. However, even though…
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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 for everyone else to be a top performer when it came…
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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. Something—a missed deadline, a lost client—makes you question the employee’s performance….
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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 principle is transferable. This organization had a group called “Afterburner” in…
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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 employees… There seems to a fixation these days on millennials as…
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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 links to various sources on just about any recruiting topic you…
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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 questions I’ve never heard before. Here are questions 1, 2 and…
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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 to almost the same thing as someone enters the workforce. Let’s…
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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 manage them? Much of the conversation is centered around the basic…
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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 new. The HR world including systematicHR has long been talking about…
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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, sequestered teams that vanish from sight and then return with big…
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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 baby boomer’s Sloan instead identifies the troubles that global companies face…