Archive for July, 2009

The Countdown to the User Conference is On!

Friday, July 31st, 2009

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 ...
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Do You Have an Employee Engagement Survey?

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

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. The article by Deanna Hartley provides a look at the evolution of the job satisfaction survey and how doing these surveys benefits ...
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Summer Reading on Talent Management and Coaching

Friday, July 24th, 2009

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 ...
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Taking a Talent Management Lesson from T-Ball

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

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 ...
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Discovering Your Employees’ Hidden Talents

Friday, July 17th, 2009

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 ...
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