January 18, 2012
At Lunch with DriveThruHR (.mp3)
In this DriveThruHR interview, Jennifer Triumph - a Compensation Analyst with Halogen customer the Franciscan Alliance – talks with Bryan Wempen and William Tincup about compensation strategy and the war for talent in healthcare. DriveThruHR is a daily 30-minute podcast featuring HR professionals who discuss HR and whatever else keeps them up at night.
January 1, 2012
Fostering the self-knowledge that supports learning
In this contributed post, Sean Conrad of Halogen Software discusses the importance of using multiple forms of feedback - from self-appraisals to peer reviews and 360 degree feedback - to gain a broader perspective of your employees' learning needs, and to make the most of your organization’s learning investments.
December 12, 2011
Best Practices for Developing Talent
In this IndustryWeek article, Halogen regional manager JP Guay discusses how focused performance management and organizational goal alignment are key to ensuring manufacturers have the right employees and organizational competencies they need to stay competitive for the long term.
HR Magazine
December 1, 2011
Creating Metrics for Senior Management (PDF)
Halogen customer Franciscan Alliance is featured in this article on the importance of reporting HR metrics to senior management. In the article Jennifer Triumph, Compensation Analyst with Franciscan Alliance, shares the metrics she tracks and how data has become key to obtaining resources necessary to recruit and retain high-value talent for the hospital.
December 1, 2011
Mold Making Technology – Benefits of Automating Employee Performance Management
In this article, Halogen Software's JP Guay shares how automating performance management processes can help manufacturers drive high employee performance, increase employee engagement and retention, and ensure their business has the critical skills needed to remain competitive.
November 28, 2011
Seattle Business - How to Retain Top
Tracy White of Clark Nuber shares how her organization fosters a strong coaching culture to ensure employees are accountable, highly engaged and focused on both their individual and the firm’s overall performance. Tracy also shares how using Halogen’s talent management suite supports the firm’s overall retention strategy, as it gives employees greater visibility into their progress on goals and the performance review process as a whole.
November 1, 2011
HR Tech Briefing - Halogen - Shining a light on value
On ZDNet.com, Brian Sommer of TechVentive shares how Halogen Software’s customer focus is providing tangible value to its customers by helping them deliver on the promise of a world class workforce.
May 2011
HR's Role In Turning Managers Into Coaches
Read how Halogen Software customer Christiana Care Health System in Delaware has created a managers coaching program for the purpose of making performance a priority for everyone in the organization.
May 2011
The Reviews Are In (Please see page 20)
Halogen Software customer O'Sullivan Creel discusses the importance and value of a performance review process that ensures managers provide ongoing feedback to employees and how this feedback can be used to create development plans while ensuring alignment to organizational goals and strategy.
February 20, 2011
Tech firms using PCs to take care of people in the workplace
CTV Ottawa profiles the success and influence of Halogen Software on the state of employee performance management.
January 2011
Preparing for Performance Reviews
Halogen Software CEO Paul Loucks on the Live 88.5 StartUp morning show discusses best practices for preparing for your annual performance review.
October 14, 2010
Trust a Vendor? Well, Maybe... The Halogen Software Backstory...
Good news. I'm going to give you the name of a company you can rely on, and I've got the data to prove it. The company's name is Halogen Software, and they provide Talent Management solutions (performance management, compensation, succession and more) to companies like yours.
September 1, 2010
What Can You Do to Impact Employee Engagement?
What can you do to drive up engagement? From a talent management perspective, there are a few basic things every manager and leader can and should do. They include…
August 20, 2010
Simple Performance Management Practices that Drive Up Employee Engagement
August 3, 2010
HR to CEO: About this goal alignment problem
While we all know that goals and goal alignment are important - in a lot of organizations, goal management just isn't getting executed the way it should be.
July 16, 2010
Kill the Performance Review and Your TM Strategy Won't Survive Either
This death knell for the performance appraisal — renewed and fueled again by the recent release of UCLA Professor Samuel Culbert’s new book, Get Rid of the Performance Review — has yet to convince me that we need to scrap the performance review all together.
June 2, 2010
Tools To Get Better Insight Into Workforce Issues
The deployment of web-based software, from vendors including NetSuite and Halogen, are not only helping some organizations streamline slow and bulky processes but are also giving managers better insight into employee performance and other issues.
March 24, 2010
Stacked (Raging) Ranking: Turning Performance Management into a Cage Match
March 3, 2010
Putting the Resource in Human Resource
Talent management is not something that most government employees think about on a daily basis. But during the last several months, the ranks of state and local government employees have given human resource managers a multitude of new challenges. Having streamlined employee appraisals and talent management strategies can go a long way towards improving operations and saving taxpayer dollars, says Donna Ronayne, Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Halogen Software.
August 2009
Succession Planning: Talent pools to deliver a competitive edge
Succession planning approaches that rely heavily on a traditional org-chart replacement methodology are narrow in scope and time consuming to maintain. Leading succession planning experts recognize that many organizations confuse replacement planning for true succession planning, where the focus is on developing people with the goal of building overall bench strength. Find out why the talent-pool approach to succession planning has emerged as a best practice.
August 5, 2009
Leighanne Levensaler Discusses Customer Satisfaction with Talent Management Vendors (MP3)
June 8, 2009
Learning and Performance Management Converge to Form an Emerging Best Practice
Traditionally, learning management systems (LMS) have been used primarily in large enterprises where the HR and learning teams often work in isolation from one another. However, recent research in talent management points to the union of learning and performance management as a growing best practice, leading to a new set of functionality requirements for learning management systems.
March 4, 2009
Software Takes the Paper Based Pain out of Talent Management
Succession planning is a strategic task that nearly everyone agrees is important to a company’s success. Yet few companies manage to devote enough time and effort to it. Why? For many companies, talent management is a labor-intensive chore involving piles of paper. In a word, it’s inefficient. Talent management software can help.
February 18, 2009
Why Automate Succession Planning When You Do it Like the Mob?
Automating traditional succession planning is a waste of time when you do it like the mob. Why do you need software to help you with succession planning if your model is "Sonny got whacked - get one of his guys to take over." You don't.
February 2009
Overcoming the Biggest Challenges in Talent Management
In most industries, organizations of all sizes struggle with how to recruit and retain the best and brightest in the industry. The reality of a tight labor market, a retiring workforce and compliance concerns can make talent management particularly challenging and complex for HR professionals. Talent management refers to the overall process of developing, managing and retaining workers. It includes a wide variety of functions including recruiting, learning and training, compensation, employee performance management and succession planning. Talent management is based on the idea that employees are an organization’s most valuable asset.
February 2, 2009
Customer Intimacy and Software - The Halogen Story
It’s really rare to find a truly innovative software firm and even more rare to find one that’s customer intimate. Well, I ran into a couple of these lately. Halogen is a Canadian, not Silicon Valley, HR software vendor. More specifically, they are an employee performance and talent management solution provider. In the words of a Halogen executive, they work hard to offer ‘brilliant (solutions) made easy’.
December 18, 2008
HR Technology - Don't Believe the Hype
December 4, 2008
Practicing IT Talent Management in Tough Times
Halogen customer 2nd Wind Exercise Equipment shares goal alignment strategy.
October 6, 2008
What Does Employee Performance and Talent Management Software Have to Do With Recruiting?
September 30, 2008
Employee Retention Takes Precedence for HR Pros
July 29, 2008
HR Software Saves Time and Cash
Talent Management Software
The Puzzling World of HR Technology Blog
July 14, 2008
Investments in Talent Management Software Companies Continue
July 10, 2008
Halogen Lights Up with JMI Investment
July 1, 2008
Keep Them at the Table: Effective Retention Strategies Depend on the Generation
Halogen customer O'Sullivan Creel discusses feedback, flexibility and a positive corporate culture as keys to retention.
The App Gap
May 14, 2008
Halogen Using Transparency to Promote Accountability in HR Processes
March 27, 2008
Skillful Reinvention the Key to Success
February 26, 2008
Taking the Human Out of Human Resources
October 1, 2007
The Need For Web-Based Talent and Performance Management
September 1, 2007
HR Executive Announces Their Selections for the Top HR and Training Products of 2007
September 1, 2007
Halogen Software Releases Professional Services Suite
August 28, 2007
Performance Systems Coming Into Their Own
July 6, 2007
IDC Picks 10 Best Canadian Firms to Watch For
June 26, 2007
Tactical HR or Human Assets: Canadian Companies Need to Bring Employee Performance and Talent Management into the Boardroom
June 5, 2007
IHRIM's Annual Town Meeting Reveals More than Gossip
June 1, 2007
The 2 Percent Solution: Managing Merit Pay
Healthcare Informatics
May 22, 2007
Halogen Set to Release eAppraisal Healthcare
ChannelWeb Network
May 14, 2007
HR Tools To Tackle Top Tech Demands
March 1, 2007
Web-Based HR Systems Cutting Costs, Boosting Recruitment and Retention
February 26, 2007
Plugging Into Performance Management
January 2, 2007
Gearing Up for the New Year: HR Professionals List the Business Goals They Want to Work Toward This Year...
November 13, 2006
HR Technology Comes of Age
AHANews.com
October 12, 2006
AHA Solutions Endorses First Products, Services for Hospital HR Departments
October 2, 2006
Full Speed Ahead: The Market for Performance-Management Software is Booming...
eChannelnews.com
July 16, 2006
Halogen Software Reports Strongest Second Quarter To Date
June 28, 2006
Halogen Introduces Employee Performance Management Suite 7.1
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