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Tag: Talent Management

  • 2014 SHRM Talent Management Conference

    Next week I’ll be attending the SHRM Talent Management Conference in Nashville. It’s an event focusing on recruiting and talent, and I’m excited about attending and sharing some of the sessions I’ll be viewing. If you’re going to be there and want to connect, hit me up via email and we can try to make…

  • Preventing Conflict in the Workplace

    If asked, many HR professionals would say that preventing conflict in the workplace is one of their key job duties. However, I’d like to step back from that well-known requirement and re-examine the need for civility at all costs. Let’s kick off with a quote: It means caring a lot about not offending someone. Let’s…

  • Group Feedback is Ineffective and Insulting

    This just in: group feedback isn’t the best tool in your performance management toolbox… I was running through some old emails the other day and found an example I had to share. Several years ago I was working as a high school wrestling referee. It was definitely a tough job, but I learned some good…

  • The Talent Mandate Book Review

    The Talent Mandate: Why Smart Companies Put People First by Andrew Benett I have learned that based on my own interests and daily work, I am eager to consume just about anything I can find related to talent management. When I got this review copy, I dove in and while it’s been a while coming,…

  • You Have Their Backs, Do They Have Yours?

    I was reading through this piece by Kris Dunn and it made me start thinking about something we all face at work. Here’s the quote: So anyway, you’ve got a merit matrix in play at your company for one of those reasons.  With that in mind, your managers deliver an above average review to multiple…

  • Managing Your First Employee

    I started with Google. I was searching about managing my first employee, because I was about to have the chance. Finding info about managing your first employee shouldn’t be that hard, right? But most of the results had to do with entrepreneurs hiring their first staff member, and there was very little to do with…

  • Two Biggest CEO Concerns? Talent and… Talent

    I’ve long believed that recruiting and talent management is one of the fastest and most direct ways to prove and enhance the value proposition for HR. The tweet below was brought to my attention during a session at the SHRM conference, and I can completely understand the truth behind it. Two biggest CEO worries –…