by DONNA RONAYNE | Mar 30th, 2009 | Learning Management |
Industry research firm Bersin & Associates is launching a new research initiative, The Corporate HR and Training Profession, and they are firing up this research with a survey. The survey is an overview, 20 questions, designed to help HR and learning professionals and executives understand how job challenges, career goals, and demographics compare to those of their peers.
We’re certainly excited about seeing the results of this survey when completed. We recently announced that [...]
by HEATHER MCCULLIGH | Mar 25th, 2009 | Leadership & Management |
In recent months, this blog has included a lot on the need for talent management and leadership in the current economic downturn, so when I saw an article on Workforce on the Duke Executive Leadership Survey it immediately caught my attention.
Here’s a quick rundown on what this survey is all about:
In the fall of 2008, the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business conducted The Duke [...]
by DONNA RONAYNE | Mar 23rd, 2009 | Pay for Performance |
It’s been pretty hard this week not to hear about how AIG Financial Products executives received some $165 million dollars in bonuses, after the company received a $170 billion federal bailout. All the media coverage and analysis aside, I think there’s a lesson for all of us in the AIG example about how pay for performance can go bad.
When pay for performance works, it’s a strong talent management program which inspires and rewards high [...]
by SEAN CONRAD | Mar 19th, 2009 | Leadership & Management |
The other day I saw an online ad where Arby’s called their sandwich “talent”. Now, do you think I can find the ad anywhere? Of course not! Maybe I was just really hungry and imagining things at the time. That said, it got me to thinking about the idea of “talent” and how it is really an overused catch phrase.
In our culture, talent has come to mean everything from a valued employee, to a celebrity [...]
You know an issue is high profile when Oprah brings it up on her show. I rarely get a chance to see the show but a friend told me about an episode from last week that addressed the importance of patient safety. Oprah had actor Dennis Quaid on; talking about a simple medical error that almost cost him his newborn twins (they’re fine now.) The show focused on the importance of being a [...]
