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AI in Talent Management
Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly grown in the talent management space but still many cannot sift through all the hype. Here’s what you need to know.
Pay-for-Performance: Good Idea or Failed Concept?
Compensating employees based on performance seems like a solid idea. In theory, it makes perfect sense: High performance equals increased compensation, which further motivates employees and leads to even higher performance. The reality, however, is different enough that it has many human resource experts wondering if pay-for-performance is anything more than a trendy concept. The…
[Webinar] How to Increase Employee Engagement through Competency-Based Talent Management
Interested in driving up the employee engagement within your organization? If your answer is yes, then you won’t want to miss this three part webinar series that is devoted to helping you increase employee engagement by integrating competencies in numerous talent management processes, such as talent acquisition, performance management, learning & development and career development.…
Addressing Skill Shortages
We have all heard the old adage, “You’re only as strong as your weakest link.” This is particularly true in business. If we want a strong, efficient, and productive company, we must ensure we have strong, efficient, and productive people, but how do we do that? An integrated competency framework can help. Competency models enable…
On the Path to High Performing Teams: Building the Best Team
Piecing together the puzzle Building the best team is like putting together a puzzle where the pieces are mixed in with the pieces from other puzzles. Define the team’s objectives A common mistake made by leaders is to assume that an arbitrary collection of folks makes a team, and that all such “teams” can achieve…
On the Path to High Performing Teams: Goal Management
(1st in a Series on Improving Performance) I wrote the book Creating High Performance Software Development Teams about 15 years ago. It was published by Prentice Hall PTR and did OK in the market. To be honest, it didn’t do well at all. After a few years wallowing in the market, Prentice Hall decided to…
Two Things You Don’t Know about 360-Degree Feedback and Should
Multi-source, or 360-degree, reviews are quickly becoming one of the most frequently utilized forms of assessments in companies. It’s surprising then that so few businesses truly understand the two most important things about them. 1) Despite the manner in which many companies use it, individual improvement is not the primary advantage of 360-degree feedback. While…
360 Reviews: Four Reasons They Fail
What’s more useful: A performance review in which one or two supervisors tell an employee how she has performed over the course of the evaluation period in the areas the supervisors were likely to notice. A multi-source review in which an employee evaluates his own performance and is given feedback from everyone he works with and…