New Must-Read Posts from Around the Web April 3rd, 2009

Heather McCulligh

As a blogger, I spend a lot of time reading posts from other bloggers on a wide variety of talent management related subjects. While I can’t blog on absolutely every great post I read, I thought I could share a few of the best ones I’ve read lately.

How to Provide Meaningful Performance Management
Great post from The Accidental-HR Manager which looks at some of the key elements of successful performance management. I like the distinction made up front on how performance management is a day-to-day thing. Another key take away is on how to make the actual performance appraisal more productive.

Five Ways to Give Praise
Charlotte Britto from the Leadership in Action blog shares five different ways to give employees praise and a lot good reasons why every manager should bother. It offers up some interesting stats on the subject – and why managers don’t praise more often.

Employee Surveys – Good Tool or Corporate Noise?
Kris Dunn over at Fistful of Talent takes a look at the employee survey, looking at both the pro and con camp. He shares four issues from Jack Welch that need to be addressed if you are going to do an employee survey, which are worth noting. Good advice here for anyone that does a survey, or thinking of it – particularly Kris’ parting advice of not doing the survey “until you are positive you are ready to take the time to probe as an organization.”

Do you have any recent posts you think we should share? Send them my way!

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Survey This: Bersin & Associates 2009 State of HR and L&D Professionals March 30th, 2009

Donna Ronayne

Industry research firm Bersin & Associates is launching a new research initiative, The Corporate HR and Training Profession, and they are firing up this research with a survey. The survey is an overview, 20 questions, designed to help HR and learning professionals and executives understand how job challenges, career goals, and demographics compare to those of their peers.

We’re certainly excited about seeing the results of this survey when completed. We recently announced that we see a growing market trend towards performance-based learning programs and it will be interesting to see if Bersin’s findings supports this.

In the past, Bersin has identified that three of the top 22 talent management processes that drive the highest business impact are related to the integration of training and performance management practices. We’ve also worked with Bersin on a white paper about the trend toward the integration of learning and performance management systems.

With organizations heavily focused on the implementation of performance management systems and the entry of learning management systems vendors into the performance management market, this topic has become more urgent than ever and at that time our research identified that more than 25 percent of corporate learning and development (L&D) managers now rate integration with performance management as one of their top two priorities.

So what do you think the big trends and outcomes will be of the survey? Fill it out, tell your friends about it, and we’ll connect again when it’s complete to discuss the results.

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