Banging My Drum: No Business Plan without a Talent Plan
If there is any one theme that has dominated my career in human capital management it is this – “No business plan without a talent plan.” It is a drum…
The New World of Work
If you visited sunny San Diego last week and participated in Cornerstone’s annual Convergence user conference, you heard it: Consumerization Client-Centricity User Experience These three strategies represent the bedrock of…
i3 or Go Home – Influence, Innovate and Impact
Corporate leaders who are unwilling or unable to influence, innovate and be impactful — what I call i3 — are headed for calamity. At last week’s Perspectives conference in Las…
The State of Talent Management: Not So Good to Just Plain Miserable
Regardless of your industry, your organizational size or location, chances are you will agree that people are the reason, or at least a significant contributor, to your successful performance. However,…
Why You Need a Performance Management Strategy
Executives often think of performance management as simply something they have to do – an HR requirement. A performance management process can do as much damage in an organization as…
Talent Management 2014: What Should Happen
Who knows what will happen in the wild world of Talent Management in the coming year? Everyone has an opinion, but what takes hold and what doesn’t depend on so…
All I Want for Christmas is a “WoooHooo!” Culture
I just finished talking with Erin Osterhaus, Managing Editor at The New Talent Times, who shared with me her thoughts on the criticality of employee engagement in building a high-performance…
A Framework for Your Business Success
Business and HR leaders are worried today about three broad areas: Accelerating development of leaders and succession planning at all leader levels Optimizing talent performance across all critical talent pools…
“Reverse Innovate” Your People
Organizations can’t source the talent they need, even in high-unemployment countries. We have a complete incongruence between people and talent. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the current world…
Passing the Torch at HR Technology Conference: Technology and People
Following the 16th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas this year, I took a week off to spend some time with my family in London before I…
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