Back in July I had the pleasure of meeting Donna Wright at the NNSDO (National Nurse Staff Development Organization) conference. Donna wrote “The Ultimate Guide to Competency Assessment in Healthcare” and is a well known consultant and expert in the field. As a former nurse, she knows first hand the challenges of the job and the common pitfalls healthcare facilities fall into when conducting competency assessments, as well as the consequences of an ineffective or inefficient process. She’s also a very warm, funny person, who helps you laugh at yourself.

Around this time of year, most of us are either in the middle of our annual employee performance appraisal process, or gearing up for the start of our process early next year. I don’t know about you, but it always makes me stop and ask if we’re doing things the best way. I find myself paying closer attention to articles, blogs, books and other reference materials on performance appraisals and managing employee performance.

Michael Krupa’s post a little while back titled, “Is HR afraid of Technology” highlighted something that really resonated here – HR generalists, managers and executives don’t tend, as a group, to be overly excited or concerned about the inner-workings of the HR technology that they are using.

On November 18th, David Hofstetter, Learning and Development Manager at the New England Organ Bank, will be presenting a webinar hosted by HR.com called Making Performance-Based Learning a Reality in Your Organization.

Today, I’m excited to share with you the insights of 10 HR Experts in our HR Raging Debates Roundtable. This virtual roundtable brought together industry leaders including HR analysts, practioners, authors, social media pundits and academics to weigh in on some of the hottest HR and talent management topics currently faced by HR pros, including appraisals, succession planning, managing the generations and weisure.