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:

So school’s out and vacation schedules might mean the office looks as empty as the school hallways at times, but summer time can be a very important and productive time at work! Seriously, it can be.
I’ve been thinking about ways to help stay engaged, and made a list to share with you:

Leading up to and during the SHRM conference last week week we announced two new features that are included in version 9.1 of our talent management suite – our Talent Profile solution and Activity Tracker. Both are designed to help HR with real-world issues they face in the deployment and ongoing administration of their talent management systems. We’re excited about both as they are truly firsts in the industry. Press and analysts we’ve shown them [...]

Our friend Steve Boese, in addition to teaching HR master’s students at the Rochester Institute of Technology about leveraging HR tech, writes a fantastic blog about the subject, and considers himself a BBQ aficionado. This interesting combination of expertise, and the summer months inspired a post about BBQ on our Talent Management Blog.