September 27, 2012 by Wally Bock
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 career development, three reasons you’re losing people because of pay, video interviewing, and data and personality tests in recruiting. From Julie Winkle Giulioni: Building the Organizational Habit […]
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September 25, 2012 by Wally Bock
One of the truly interesting things to cross my screen recently is the Deloitte report, “Talent 2020: Surveying the talent paradox from an employee perspective.” You can download a PDF of the full report here. The report identifies three talent management challenges, but one jumped out at me. Here’s the money quote. “Engage employees with […]
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September 20, 2012 by Wally Bock
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 future of HR and of social recruiting, how to hire self-starters, employee referral programs, and succession planning. We start with two articles that take a look […]
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September 18, 2012 by Wally Bock
If we need leaders with different knowledge, skills and attitudes for our changing world, how come most of us are developing them the same old way? That’s the provocative question that Marcus Buckingham asks in his recent article, “Creating a Top-Performing Team: Leadership Development for Tomorrow’s Corporations” at Chief Executive. Here’s the money quote. “Billions […]
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September 13, 2012 by Wally Bock
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 workforce planning, lifelong learning, hiring and developing, and how most organizations fall short at managing talent. From Jon Ingham: Workforce Planning is a Necessity “My point here […]
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September 11, 2012 by Wally Bock
“In the last month, I’ve worked for five employers, bid on three projects, been a member of two virtual teams and participated in a conference call in the middle of the night. I am 36 years old and a 21st-century employee.” That’s how Alexandra Levit begins her New York Times article, “The Rise of the […]
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September 6, 2012 by Wally Bock
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 rise of video interviews, talent management technology, retaining talent, and the value of values. From HR Morning: Are in-person interviews on their way out? “Six in […]
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September 4, 2012 by Wally Bock
Here’s the problem. It may be the most important talent development problem you face. Most of the people who get “promoted” to supervisory positions are poor choices to begin with. Then they’re thrown into the supervisory waters with little to no training in the people parts of their jobs. Now what? Now you have men […]
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August 30, 2012 by Wally Bock
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 hiring better, your employment brand, finding the talent you need, and the elusive talent equation. From Katherine Jones at Bersin: Getting to the Better Mousetrap in Employee […]
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August 28, 2012 by Wally Bock
In the old comics, Dick Tracy had a wrist radio. It wasn’t that long ago that when someone got a cell phone, they called a person they knew and said, “Guess where I’m calling from.” That was then. Today, 93 percent of Americans have a mobile phone. More and more of them are “smart” which […]
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