Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about transforming talent management, the best companies to work for, how work is changing, and the year’s best leadership blog posts.
From Bersin and Associates: Transforming Talent Management – It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint
“This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting a webcast with David Malfitano, VP of HR at Wayne Farms, which focused on his organization’s performance management transformation. One of the questions we were asked during the webcast had to do with the pacing of the transformation: how did David know how quickly or slowly to push change through the organization? I want to explore this question more here today, focusing on the steps David took and the questions you should ask yourself when going through a similar change. “
Wally’s Comment: Stacia Garr analyzes the transformation of talent management by looking at the example of Wayne Farms.
From Talent Management: Talent Containers
“When Mark Ketchum became president and CEO of Newell Rubbermaid five years ago, he made some substantial changes to the consumer and commercial products company.”
Wally’s Comment: Here’s another case example. In this one, the talent management functions were part of a total corporate makeover.
From Forbes: The Best Companies To Work For
“Glassdoor.com, a jobs and career community where people share information and opinions about the places where they work, has just unveiled its third annual Employees’ Choice Awards, which lists the top 50 best places to work based on surveys collected from employees throughout 2010.”
Wally’s Comment: Here’s yet another list of “best places to work,” but with a twist. For most of the others a company has to apply. Not for this list. And in some other lists, a company has to pay to be rated, but not here. The Glassdoor process is based on survey forms completed by employees of the company. To qualify for consideration, a company needs 25 “valid and approved” reviews within a year. All this is outlined in the FAQ.
You can compare the Glassdoor list with the 2010 Fortune list. Look for who’s on one but not the other. For example, Trader Joe’s is on the Glassdoor list, but not the Fortune list, while Wegmans is the reverse. And you can compare rankings. SAS is number one on the Fortune list and number seven on the Glassdoor list. And Facebook, Glassdoor’s number one doesn’t appear at all on the Fortune list. Neither do Glassdoor’s second and third place companies, Southwest Airlines and Bain and Company.
From Om Malik: By The Numbers: How The Workforce Is Changing
“Incite conduced an online study on behalf of GigaOM Pro and Skype. One of findings of the study: nearly two-thirds (62%) of companies surveyed had remote workers and over a third (34 percent) of those remote workers worked away from office – at client, customer or partner premises; at home or in public spaces. Clearly, we are in what Citrix Online President Brett Caine calls, a workshift.”
Wally’s Comment: The title for this post would be more accurate if it was “How work is changing,” but it’s still a great read about how technology and networks are affecting the way we work.
From DDI: Talent Management by the Numbers – The 20 Best Leadership Blog Posts 2010
DDI asked Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership to come up with the twenty best leadership blog posts from 2010. He limited his search to independent blogs (no Harvard, for example) and to blogs he was familiar with. And, unlike many other “best” lists I’ve seen, he chose to go for the best posts, rather than the best blogs. That’s why I’m sure there’s at least one post here that you’ll judge excellent.
