Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on executive coaching, the future of recruiting, employment branding, and assessing whether you have an elite recruiting function.
From Right Management: Executive Coaching Improves Bench Strength
“One overriding concern for many organizations is that they are looking to develop a strong leadership bench. However, they are finding that their employees do not possess the depth of talent and gravitas to take on a leadership role, much less successfully execute and deliver on a strategic plan or program. One important approach to resolving this dilemma: targeted executive coaching. In fact, leadership coaching has become such an important part of an organization’s talent management and workforce planning strategies that over 60 percent of organizations surveyed are now using it.”
From ERE.net: The Future of Recruiting
“Mobile …finally! DNA footprints in the cloud; recruiting back to basics: getting to know the candidate; the end of the traditional ATS; emerging markets dominate; augmented reality; disruptive marketing and stunt PR; the end of social media; candidate cloning and the end of recruiters as we know it!”
From John Sumser: Three Unrelated Facets of Employment Branding
“There are three distinct facets of an employment brand. Each of them are an aspect of the employment brand and not the whole thing:”
“I am frequently asked during corporate presentations to cite the difference between ‘good and great’ recruiting functions. Well, as a former chief talent officer and someone who has spent years devoted to identifying what makes the handful of elite recruiting functions unique, I’ve come up with an assessment tool. It is a checklist that can be used by recruiting leaders as a self-assessment tool in order to determine how they compare “side-by-side†to the few firms that have reached this elite status. The 40 defining characteristics are broken into seven distinct categories and they are listed in a numbered format for easy scanning.”
