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 about the five most important talent management roles, when you should promote from within, developing your top performers, and our most pressing leadership development challenge.
From Cathy Missildine-Martin: HR’s 5 Most Important Talent Management Roles
“I see HR playing 5 important roles as far as talent management is concerned:”
From Don Charlton: Should I Stay or Should I Go? When Should You Promote From Within
“Your company has an opening, your employees know about it, and some of them are already sharpening their elbows and jockeying for position. Is the right worker already within your ranks? Or is she somewhere far beyond your company’s walls, searching for a business just like yours to call home? Should you make your employee selection from within, or should you expand your search?”
From Sean Conrad: Develop your top performers so they don’t fly the coop
“If someone’s already performing at the top of their game it could be a signal that he or she needs some new challenges brought their way. Top performers need to be challenged, developed and nurtured – just like anyone else in the organizations — maybe even more so.”
From Michael Haid: Our Most Pressing Leadership Development Challenge
“Historically, organizational leaders were able to groom high potentials in ways that closely resembled the current leadership team’s mindset. Organizations are acknowledging the fact that high potentials need new and previously untested capabilities. Given the forward-looking view that companies need to take, utilizing a cookie-cutter approach results in various challenges”
