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Building on Talent Management trends

Six weeks into 2016 and we’re seeing a sharp increase in HR decision-makers ready to take the positive steps needed to take on the Talent Management trends we were seeing  last year. Trend #1 – The expectations of a Talent Management system in terms if its accessibility, interface and experience have risen dramatically. Employees and managers now expect to be able to access …

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How to performance manage the career consumer

We’ve seen the rise of the so-called ‘career consumer’ who is perhaps more demanding in terms of their workplace development. As such, managing their performance can be a challenge. We believe that by changing managers’ and employees’ approach to performance management can make a difference. This view was shared with Personnel Management and forms the basis of an article by Cath Everett. …

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The 5 fundamentals when looking to move to continuous Performance Management

With debate around how performance review may be changing and with some organisations looking to move away from performance ratings to more continuous performance management, we offer in this blog post the 5 areas we think are fundamental when you start to consider making any changes to your performance management process. #1 – Get involvement from everyone …

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Will the trends in talent management of 2015 play out in 2016?

Before we start with the talent management predictions of 2016, let’s take a moment to look back at 2015 and the 5 core trends in talent management we witnessed. Expectations of a Talent system’s accessibility, interface and experience rose dramatically. Employees and managers expected to be able to access data and information anywhere and at any time – whether this …

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Is your Succession Planning ‘untapped’, ‘unmanaged’ or worse?

We’ve noticed that whilst many organisations have a succession strategy in place, there there can be little insight into how effective, relevant or impactful it is on the business. To help take a snapshot of the situation, we’ve developed a free-to-use, interactive online succession planning tool for you to see where you can drive improvements to …

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Drive performance conversations not performance ratings

We’ve blogged before about the importance of performance conversations that managers have with their team members as part of performance review and appraisal – and we’ve heard recently about the shifts in how organisations view performance ratings.  We’ve commented on this in one of our We think… articles. Whether performance ratings are used or not, we …

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Succession Planning within the new Talent model – 5 things to think about

In our blog last week, Professor Nick Kemsley, outlined trends in how talented people are viewing their careers and their interactions with their employers. In this video, he explores how these trends might translate that across to succession planning – and highlights five key considerations for us Take a look at the realistic and valid timescale …

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Succession Planning: time to reflect the new Talent model?

We believe that Succession Planning needs to change. We think that organisations need to recognise the shifts taking place in minds of talented employees and their view of their career and the relationship with their employer, and look now at how this can inform effective succession planning within the organisation. From other blog posts, you’ll read that talent is …

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