{"id":330,"date":"2006-02-24T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2006-03-22T22:44:20","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T06:44:20","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-talent-management-%e2%80%93-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s wrong with Talent Management \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Don\u2019t we all love competencies? I\u2019ll 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 in a broader business function, competencies trapped within HR databases does not increase business success.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Imagine a world where an employee\u2019s competencies are loaded from the HRMS into a data warehouse. This information is then loaded to production planning systems or resource allocation systems to fully maximize the best resources for any project.<\/li>\n<li>Imagine that same data warehouse loading competencies into the knowledge management system so that best practices and subject matter leaders are easily located and utilized.<\/li>\n<li>Imagine if you\u2019re most skilled employees were leveragable to train others rather than only working on certain projects because they are always in high demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--more-->Are competencies bad or wrong? No, I don\u2019t feel as negative about them as I did performance. However, while we focused on recruiting and training competencies, I\u2019m not sure we ever rolled them out to the rest of the business functions. Perhaps this is not as much of a gripe against competencies, as it is against the ability of HR to truly effect operational change in an organization. We have the metrics and the data, but perhaps we don\u2019t have the skills or the reach. Deploying a competency model within HR by utilizing HR technology was the easy part. Now we need to understand how our HR practices integrate with everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t we all love competencies? I\u2019ll 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talent-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}