Tag Archive | "Talent Management"

The breadth of communications options is similar to the workplace communication landscape. The structure of performance reviews, types and frequency of management communication with employees, as well as accessibility for employees to give feedback to their superiors.

One of primary reasons Americans forfeited two vacation days on average was their heavy workloads. Although companies reported that employees were 22% more profitable in 2011 than 2010, many employers are also realizing that less-stressed, rested and happy employees result in higher productivity and retention rates.

Would you like to engage, grow, and inspire your team members? Doing so requires proactive communication regularly, not just during annual review discussions. Developing star performers requires creating meaningful conversations well before the performance review. A conversation can be powerful and inspiring or flat and dull or somewhere in between. Are your conversations creating engagement, momentum, and inspiring others? Your ability to guide people to see around corners and to read what motivates them will make you a more effective manager, leader, and developer of star performers.

Large employers with complex and rapidly evolving labor needs require an integrated talent management system that will support long-term success. Unfortunately, such a solution has been easy to imagine but nearly impossible to realize. To that end, HR executives look to data mining and data analytics to boost the power of their workforce planning, allowing them to anticipate specific needs for learning and development programs that can fill potential talent shortages.

Leadership is the most studied of all psychological phenomena – a reality that puzzles researchers of more quotidian behaviors. I believe this owes to the fact that some part of us believes that we can be a leader, even if our current behaviors and station may do little to suggest that latent potential.

while we might not be signing offer letters with seven zeroes, we know that, like the Lakers, we can’t do anything but accept the decision, move on and continue to utilize our professionalism and experience to go for the championship with the talent cards we’re dealt. Of course, if you can’t have Kobe Bryant running your floor, here are some articles to help your front office pull together a winning team.

A couple years ago, I thought that social media, at least when it came to HR and recruiting, was an online bubble bound to burst quicker than you can say Second Life. After all, HR professionals tend to suffer from stasis, and that’s slowed the growth of social media somewhat, but not the increasing awareness that we’ve got to do something different to really make a difference.

The future isn’t coming; it’s here. As advances in social media and emerging technologies like cloud computing, mobile media and online recruiting reshape the fundamentals of human capital management, organizations whose own headcount was negatively impacted by the recession have to start thinking more nimbly. Beyond buzzwords lies the new recruiting reality: talent organizations must do more with less.

Due to the hierarchical nature of the workplace where an authority figure reigns over others, it is highly likely that status relationships will develop. In other words, someone will have a higher status, creating a subservient role in the relationship. When the grade between authority and non-authority status becomes too high, this can resemble parent-child relationships where the former decides choices for others and the latter has all choices made for them.