Douglas County’s Approach to Talent Management Gets National RecognitionApril 8th, 2010 |
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Many of our education customers have proactively implemented innovative talent management practices to ensure they can evaluate and coach all educational staff in the coming years.
A great example of this is Douglas County School District in Colorado, which was recently recognized by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan for its innovative approach to linking teacher evaluations to performance pay. As Secretary Duncan explained, “As this thing unfolds, you have a chance to create a model for the entire country. This is a big, big deal. You have a chance to break new ground here.”
The reality of the education market is that the ability to evaluate the performance and growth of educational staff is more vital now than ever before, as school board and institution funding, in many cases, becomes performance based. This is evident in initiatives such as Barack Obama’s $4.5 Billion “Race for the Top!” fund, targeted at education reform. With this program the U.S. federal government has announced that the traditional method of evaluating educators is no longer appropriate. This means that new tools and creative approaches to talent management are called for.
We recently announced our new offering designed specifically to meet the needs of the education market. We’ve been hearing from our more than 100 education customers that they have unique challenges (like all of our vertical markets!), and they need specific tools to help them build a solid talent management strategy and be able to handle educational reform.
Congratulations to the team at Douglas County for being recognized for your hard work and fresh approach. You can read more about Douglas County’s pay for performance strategy here.
Tags: Education, employee engagement, pay for performance, performance management, talent management |
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