With crystal ball predictions out for next year, let’s link to the talent processes in practice. Here are Taleo’s 10 Talent Management Best Practices for 2011. Move Recruiting Online Source Smarter Extend Your Reach with Social Recruiting Get Employees Up to Speed Faster Align Goals and Objectives Across Your Organization Transform Performance Reviews Implement Ongoing [...]

Executives believe that a highly engaged workforce delivers better business results. They are right. But getting there takes process and time rather than a mandated behavior. In terms of engagement, the research speaks volumes and the reasons speak for themselves. BusinessWeek’s Why We Can’t ‘Motivate’ Engagement article points out that employee engagement should not be [...]

The Best Firms to Build a Career in Talent Management offers a number of insights into talent-savvy organizations and the talent management practitioners who walk and talk talent by putting process into practice. Not only do those leading companies find themselves on Fortune and BusinessWeek best places to work and launch a career lists, they [...]

Two connections between talent management practices and company value and performance are referenced in Game-changing: Financial Analysts Begin Assessing Talent Management Effectiveness: Watson Wyatt using its human capital index found that good people practices can increase a company’s value by as much as 30%. Russell Investments reports that firms on the Fortune “100 Best Companies [...]

Social learning starts with onboarding and moves on to power development, career mobility, and succession in the talent management lifecycle. Informal and formal learning can be combined to boost employee engagement and enablement that then can power improved customer engagement in hospitality, retail, healthcare, and sales. Knowledge flow through training increases engagement, productivity, and profits [...]

Process automation across the talent management spectrum delivers higher quality of hire as measured by hiring manager satisfaction and time to productivity as reported by Aberdeen. The best-in-class findings of the Talent Acquisition Strategies study covering hundreds of companies are summarized in CIO Insights’ Automating Your Hiring Process slideshow. Highlights include a documented decrease in [...]

If one of the projections in PwC Saratoga’s 2010/2011 US Human Capital Effectiveness Report is correct, then—as has occurred historically post-recession—employers should prepare for an upswing in voluntary exits. This prospect should drive redoubled efforts in two areas: 1) top performer retention strategies, and 2) a renewed emphasis on aspects of the new external hire [...]

As organizations shift their business gears from reverse to neutral and into drive, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA) revisited BCG’s 2008 global “Creating People Advantage“ report with a follow-up survey: Creating People Advantage 2010: How Companies Can Adapt Their HR Practices for Volatile Times. The results identified [...]

There’s a lot to be learned in the correlation of how the sports metaphor relates to companies. Just look at Talent Management Lessons and Strategies From the World Series and They Might Be Giants: Management Insights From San Francisco’s Boys of Summer. Search the term “recruiting” on Google and you’ll see how popular use centers [...]

How we look at things and the metaphors we use to describe them can sometimes reveal the thinking behind our philosophies. For example, the term human capital was used for many years to describe a company’s investment in people. Business leaders saw their people as a portfolio of assets much like a mutual fund and [...]