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 hiring by audition, succession planning, training fads, and how Twitter manages talent.
From Matt Mullenweg: Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes
“It all starts with the way we think about work. In a lot of businesses, if someone shows up in the morning and he isn’t drunk, he doesn’t sleep at his desk, and he’s dressed nicely, it’s assumed that he’s working. But none of that takes into account what he’s actually created during the day. Many people create great things without living up to those norms. We measure work based on outputs. I don’t care what hours you work. I don’t care if you sleep late, or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It’s all about your output.”
From Dan McCarthy: Making Succession Planning “Realâ€
The question: “Any guidance or best practices around making succession planning real would be very helpful.”
From Edward Cohen: To Train, and How to Train: That is the Question
“When it comes to new technologies or fads in the training world, I usually step back and think about why or why they won’t succeed. A few years back Podcast were all the rage and everyone was going to be listening to their training. Then came about a dozen other fads like YouTube, Blogs, Wiki’s etc. I can’t tell you how many presentations I heard where the speaker described how everyone in the company was going to publish a blog and edit Wiki’s and how this would eventually replace formal training. The latest hype has been around Mobile Learning which I honestly thought was just as much of a fad as the others for training, but I may be wrong. In fact, I now believe it has real potential but not in the way it is currently being thought of.”
From Max Nisen: How Twitter Manages Talent Via An Internal ‘Free Market’
“It’s one of the things that helps the company retain talent in an intensely competitive market where skilled engineers are incredibly valuable.”
