The countdown is on here at Halogen, as we’re less than two months away from our fourth annual user conference. This year’s conference is set for September 14th and 15th and is packed full of things to inspire customers about the future of talent management with strategic and practical sessions to support human resources leadership.

In the conference education sessions, Halogen experts and customers will share best practices and real-world experiences on a wide breadth of [...]

The July issue of Talent Management magazine recently ran a story on employee engagement evaluation that shared some interesting and compelling stats on why organizations need employee engagement surveys.

I’ve seen a lot of great talent management and coaching related articles and blog posts, and I wanted to take some time to share a few of them with you.

Here’s an interesting article from the CRM Learning blog on how non-verbal communication undermines performance. As the writer notes:

The way we react to other people and communicate these feelings nonverbally can have a major impact on our working relationships. By sending out positive signals–”positive [...]

This year my daughter started playing t-ball and this foray into team sports has been interesting for me on many levels. While at this time of year, there’s no shortage of coaching analogies for HR, watching her coaches in action, I’ve noticed a number of things that transfer over to what HR and managers need to be focused on when it comes to coaching employees.

I came across a couple of interesting blog posts recently. The first one, Unearthing Talents Your Employees Keep Hidden by Sean Silverthorne over at Bnet talks about how you have employees with hidden talents that, if you only knew they existed, could help your business. He references Steven DeMaio’s blog on Harvard Business Publishing on the same topic. Steven says: