by STANLEY JANAS, CHRP | Jun 8th, 2009 | Halogen News |
We’re in the planning stages for our annual user conference, which will be held this year from September 14 and 15th in Ottawa, Ontario! This will be a fun and informative event, so if you are a Halogen customer, I’d like to encourage you to take this opportunity to share your insights and shed light on how other organizations – from beginner to advanced – can maximize their use of Halogen’s leading talent management suite.
by HEATHER MCCULLIGH | May 15th, 2009 | Succession Planning |
Our friends at Bersin & Associates have been really busy with new research reports – and surveys!
Of particular interest is their recently published High-Impact Succession Management: Best Practices, Models and Case Studies in Organizational Talent Mobility, a study that finds a majority of companies implement succession management practices at only the most senior executive levels. Fewer than 40% of respondents said their companies included mid-level managers and skilled professionals in succession planning initiatives and only 11% included first-line supervisors.
by STANLEY JANAS, CHRP | May 7th, 2009 | Leadership & Management, Performance Management |
As HR professionals, there’s a lot we can do to help our organizations weather an economic downturn.
In all honesty, good talent management practices are important to corporate success in any economy. After all, the whole purpose of talent management is to help your organization get the most from its most valuable resource – its people. And in case you needed it, there is ample research available that finds companies who implement integrated talent management practices consistently outperform their peers.
I came across an interesting article recently; about the new work approach “millennial” employees are taking in response to the continued economic downturn. The article discussed how young workers are fearful of losing their entry-level jobs and are turning to some tried-and-true performance enhancements to hold onto them:
by SEAN CONRAD | Mar 19th, 2009 | Leadership & Management |
The other day I saw an online ad where Arby’s called their sandwich “talent”. Now, do you think I can find the ad anywhere? Of course not! Maybe I was just really hungry and imagining things at the time. That said, it got me to thinking about the idea of “talent” and how it is really an overused catch phrase.
In our culture, talent has come to mean everything from a valued employee, to a celebrity [...]
