November 17, 2011 by Wally Bock
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 on mobile recruiting, navigating the skills gap, training budgets, and peer support for executives. From John Zappe: Study: Employers Are Slow To Completely Invest in Mobile Recruiting “Only 7 percent of […]
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November 15, 2011 by Wally Bock
Jack Taylor’s story is one of those “greatest generation” stories. In World War II he was part of Air Group 15, known as “Legendary 15.” He flew thirty-five combat missions, most off the carriers Essex and Enterprise. He came home and started a successful business delivering packages, was wooed away by an auto dealer, and […]
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November 8, 2011 by Wally Bock
Talent is not enough. That’s my big take-away from the Aon Hewitt study, “Top Companies for Leaders.” The last version of this particular survey (not to be confused with the Hay Group’s “Best Companies for Leadership“) was published two years ago. If you were thinking that you could just, magically, find the most talented people […]
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November 3, 2011 by Wally Bock
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 on tracking talent and finding leaders, people who don’t want to be managers, the art and science of picking a leader, and IBM’s succession planning example. From CNN: Tracking the talent, […]
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November 1, 2011 by Wally Bock
“Tracking the talent, finding the leaders” is an interview with Robert P. Gandossy, who’s described as “the founder of the annual Top Companies For Leaders’ study.” If talent development is part of your portfolio, you’ll want to read the article for a hodgepodge of observations on leadership development. One part of the piece really caught […]
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October 27, 2011 by Wally Bock
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 on why talent is irrelevant, GE’s approach to leadership development, succession management at IBM, and advice on how to make hiring and promoting decisions. From Joe Gerstandt: Talent is irrelevant. “Okay, […]
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October 25, 2011 by Wally Bock
When Woody Morcott was chairman and CEO of the Dana Corporation he wondered why his company wasn’t using all the brains it had. Today he might ask about why we’re not training them. Many of writers of books and blog posts and articles and speeches about the “War for Talent” and talent development complain that […]
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October 20, 2011 by Wally Bock
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 on hiring, keeping your rock stars happy and home, hi-pos. retention, and LinkedIn’s Talent Pipeline Management tool, From Mel Kleiman: Hiring Wisdom: Tipping Points When Employees Stay – or When They […]
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October 18, 2011 by Wally Bock
I love college football, so I watch many of the analysis shows. On a recent one, former Florida coach Urban Meyer was deconstructing a play by Clemson’s star freshman, Sammy Watkins. He pointed out details as Watkins got free, made a catch, eluded a defender, and turned up field. At that point, Watkins took off […]
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October 13, 2011 by Wally Bock
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 on the Mercer study on employee commitment, talent management software, investing in your people, creating a good leadership training program, and choosing leaders at random. From TLNT: Survey: Employees Are Unhappy, […]
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