The 2007 Workplace Issues Report: Key Challenges for Leaders found: “Soft” issues such as finding and keeping talent are over 3 times as prevalent as hard issues such as finance. Leaders are twice as concerned about leadership than all other issues combined. Thats why a talent focus should no longer be perceived as just a [...]

Wharton professor Peter Cappelli has written extensively on important issues around talent management. He has analyzed”and refuted”the demographic talent shortage. He has also clearly articulated The Challenge of Talent Management. His upcoming book, Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty describes a new model for talent. In a recent article on his [...]

Technical innovation has taken the power and reach previously reserved for large companies that could afford powerful tools and made them affordable to anyone who has the ambition to use them. From desktop publishing to spreadsheets, email, and online search, weve come a very long way in a short time. Small companies can produce videos, [...]

While reading Love Your Job Enough to Marry It: Let Me Count the Ways, we found more evidence that career sites can be a huge differentiator in the war for talent. In Sarah Needlemans article More Corporate Career Sites Satisfy Job Hunters’ Demands, The Wall Street Journal covered how large enterprises are increasingly relying on [...]

Happy Valentines Day! Its no secret that many Americans spend more time at work than with their significant others. Even on the holiday created in the name of love, millions of people will dedicate at least eight hours of their day to a date with their employer as opposed to a date with their spouse. [...]

For HR, theres a lot of insight embedded in these Sly and the Family Stone lyrics: If you want me to stay I’ll be around today To be available for you to see I’m about to go And then you’ll know For me to stay here I’ve got to be me The U.S. Bureau of [...]

Although only 30% of respondents to WorldatWork/Sibsons State of Performance Management Study report that their employees trust their performance management system, two-thirds from top-performing companies believe performance management advances their organizations goals. This endorsement of the power of performance management speaks to the need to have next generation performance management systems and processes in place. [...]

The smarter you source, the better your recruiting results. A smart sourcing strategy starts with immediate insight into your total talent pool”including internal and external sources with succession, career, and performance information”combined with best fit criteria to produce a short list of preferred hires. Neil Dunabie, Group HRMS Manager at Reed Elsevier, recently shared some [...]

There is a classic Pogo cartoon written by Walt Kelly that states: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us. The illustration has the little possum staring into a mirror registering shock. When it comes to talent management, everyone thinks its important. But McKinseys series of articles such as Making talent a strategic priority [...]