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 [...]