Let’s face it, most managers, both new and experienced, aren’t good coaches. Why? They don’t take the time and effort to have those important – positive and not so positive – performance conversations with their employees on an ongoing basis. Some by nature avoid confrontation; others get bogged down with their day to day workload and lose this focus.

For a lot of us, vacation has come and gone, and it’s back to reality. I’m the type of person that is always planning a vacation. So much so that when I came back from my family trip to Florida last winter, I had a girls’ weekend planned for the spring within 72 hours. I truly do love my vacation because it provides a break, not just from work, but my day to day life in general.

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 [...]