Talent Mgmt
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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…
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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…
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Analytics: Linking Silos, Linking Strategy
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There was a question posed on the web a while back (I’m hard pressed to find it) asking what linkages were important to the performance of an HR organization….
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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…
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Quantifying Talent
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Sean over at Talent Ecology recently wrote a piece that got me thinking about how we think and process our talent, nut just as people but as distinct sets…
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Jeitosa’s Top 5 for 2007
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I was adamant this year about not putting out a list, so instead I’ll borrow from someone else. Jeitosa is an interesting organization built with industry experts with strong…
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How to Develop People
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Any organization develops people; it has no choice. It either helps them grow or it stunts them… In developing people the lesson is to focus on strengths. Then make…
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Performance Appraisals
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Appraisals – and the philosophy behind them – are far too much concerned with “potential.” ((Drucker, Peter F. “The Daily Drucker.” HarperCollins, 2004. Page 274)) Instead of focusing on…
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The Crucial Promotions
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If a company is to obtain the needed contributions, it must reward those who make them… The crucial promotion is not a person’s first – though it may be…
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Attracting and Holding People
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It is highly desirable to have specific objectives for manager supply, development and performance, but also specific objectives for major groups within the non-managerial workforce. There is need for…
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People Decisions
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People decisions are the ultimate – perhaps the only – control of an organization. People determine the performance capacity of an organization. No organization can do better than the…
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A Return to Sabbaticals
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A few months ago I wrote about sabbaticals and wanted to swing back around and clarify my position – especially since I may have been proven wrong about a…
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What’s to be done about performance reviews?
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Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has a current discussion about performance reviews and what can be done to make them more effective. Quite a few interesting comments have been…
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Talent Acquisition Systems Updates
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I’ve been remiss in my lack of system and vendor updates. Truth be told, not much has actually changed in the vendor landscape other than a few mergers. The…
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Branding, Communications, Compensation, Engagement, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Talent Mgmt, Vendors, Workforce Planning
We Have Work to Do
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For all our lofty talk about employer branding, employee engagement, communications and change management, and for all the money we’ve been spending on implementing technology, process and workflow, we…
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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…
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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…
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Performance Management to Compensation Management Integration
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Unfortunately for most managers, technologists usually see a need to integrate performance scores with the compensation planning tools, but not much more than that. The reality is that if…
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Recruiting to Talent Management Integration
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Here starts another series, this time on integration and in response to a rather surprising showing of interest in Performance Management Integration back in early August. In this series,…
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Stopping the Talent Drain
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This site has many recurring themes, but here are 2 of the most popular: There’s a talent drain and it’s only getting worse. Compensation is no way to retain…