Industry friend Bersin & Associates recently published a report on best practices for high impact talent management. The report covers 22 talent management processes that drive the highest levels of business impact.

This research program studied more than 760 organizations business, talent, and HR processes and includes in-depth analysis of 62 best-practice processes, in eight functional areas:

• Workforce planning
• Performance management
• Competency management
• Leadership development
• Succession planning
• Learning and development
• Compensation management
• Talent Management software systems.

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Normally we think of management control systems as something employees don’t like but that is not really the case. Employees like having clear goals. They are flattered if managers a level or two above them care about their goals. They are impressed if a company has an effective on-line system that helps their manager set goals give feedback and assign appropriate training. And most of all, if they genuinely are high performers they are pleased [...]

This month’s HR Magazine (http://www.shrm.org/Publications/hrmagazine/Pages/default.aspx) has a big section on generation Y, which is definitely worth a read. One particularly interesting article is The Tethered Generation which looks at the role of technology with the millennial generation.

There are two key points in the article that apply to employee performance and talent management as I see it. Millennials are incredibly techno-savvy, which means they will be expecting, and possibly demanding systems that offer [...]

I just attended the World at Work tradeshow and found a new sense of urgency in the air. There seems to be a really urgent push to put employee performance and talent management systems in place at organizations of all kinds. There also seems to be a trend in replacing earlier systems. Many companies who have home-grown systems in place want to replace them with vendor based solutions because their home grown solution can [...]

It’s important to cast a broad net when considering the role of employee performance and talent management in your organization. On some level, employee performance management impacts all the most important people issues in an organization. It includes the entire relationship an organization has with its people, and helps it to achieve company goals through conversations between management and employees.

By establishing an effective employee performance management system, a work environment is created in [...]