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 most pressing concern for HR executives, the biggest trends in HR, big data and recruiting, modeling Google’s HR, and what to do about the ROI of talent development.
From Right Management: Lack of Future Leaders a Cause for Concern for Many Organizations
“For the third year in a row, lack of high-potential leaders was the most pressing concern for U.S. HR executives, 32% of whom put it at the top of their list of challenges to be faced in 2013, according to new research we conducted at Right Management.”
From Derek Irvine: The Biggest Trends in Talent Management and HR
“I recently had the opportunity to participate in an Argyle Conversation by Argyle Executive Forum. I enjoyed to give and take very much, and appreciated the chance to close out the discussion with a look into the future on major trends coming for HR and talent management.”
From the Economist: Big data and hiring: Robot recruiters
“THE problem with human-resource managers is that they are human. They have biases; they make mistakes. But with better tools, they can make better hiring decisions, say advocates of “big dataâ€. Software that crunches piles of information can spot things that may not be apparent to the naked eye. In the case of hiring American workers who toil by the hour, number-crunching has uncovered some surprising correlations.”
From HR Web Cafe: Modeling Google’s Innovative Approach to HR
“In a recent feature, the magazine Fast Company names 50 companies as The World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2013, as well as top 10 picks per various industry segments. It’s always an interesting list of case histories of new and emerging ideas and well-worth perusing. By way of preview, here’s this year’s pick for the Top 10, a mix of both online and offline innovation: 1) Nike; 2) Amazon 3) Square 4) Splunk 5) Fab 6) Uber 7) Sproxil 8) Pinterest 9) Safaricom and 10) Target.”
From HREOnline: Stop Fretting over Talent-Management ROI Already
“Pretty funny — yet telling — assessment in the latest HRExaminer report by Marc Effron of the current state of human resource leaders’ abilities to determine and defend talent management’s return-on-investment.”
