talent management

6 barriers to effective employee engagement

Employee engagement surveys have been around for years.  Often run by HR, but sometimes they’re not – and yet surely employee engagement is pivotal to all aspect of successful talent management?  Without engagement in your 360 reviews or your performance management processes, how can they possibly deliver achievement of objectives – and with little engagement …

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Are you ready for 360 degree feedback in your organisation? – ask yourself these 8 questions

Introducing 360 degree feedback into an organisation takes commitment, time and sometimes a culture shift. But the rewards are immense. Our survey in 2013 showed that 91% of organisations witness a better understanding of their own strengths and areas of development – and ¾ see a greater commitment to the development plan. There’s an increase …

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Getting managers on board with Talent Management

Meeting HR decision makers at this week’s Learning Technologies exhibition, it’s clear to us that one of the key challenges remains getting line or business managers to play their part in managing and developing talent. The recent Bersin by Deloitte report – Predictions for 2014: Building A Strong Talent Pipeline for The Global Economic Recovery …

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Talent® fully multi-lingual, fully social, fully integrated

Great news for our Talent® users – and those looking for practical and valuable functionality from an on-line talent management system. Now fully multi-lingual, Talent® users will be able to access the Talent 360® in French and Spanish and have the option to work with us to upload other languages as needed. We’ve also made …

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Succession Planning and Talent Management – food for thought

In our latest article – Succession Planning and Talent Management– we pull together some important questions, provide useful tips and outline a five stage process to help get to grips with succession planning whatever size your organisation. We take a look at the risks and benefits of managing succession and debate the question about how …

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Calculating ROI – are we all doing this with our talent management activities?

With economic uncertainty comes the need for greater scrutiny of spend and examination of return of any investment.  But how does this apply to areas of talent management spend?  Are we all justifying our spend, building a business case and looking at the payback on the investment once made? Our recent survey – Justifying spend …

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