Industry News
The latest developments in human capital planning and talent management practices.
Leadership & Coaching
Employee Motivation Tips: The Why Matters
September 20, 2011
For leaders of any kind — managers, supervisors, business owners, coaches, teachers, or parents — the lesson in this story is key to understanding what might motivate someone to take action…. When you find ways to communicate with people about issues bigger and more emotional to them — to them is the key point here — they will move to action to accomplish the goal.
7 Critical Leadership Lessons that can be Learned on the Golf Course
September 1, 2011
Golf is a hobby to many, they play the game passionately and with high expectations even though for many it is played only sporadically. These high expectations combined with passion can also yield immense frustration as golf is an incredibly difficult game for even the most avid player…Leadership can be the same way. Those who are most active at it are often doing it out of passion and a desire to improve (self or others). This desire to change, inspire, and impassion can deliver amazing results one day only to bring dismal results the next.
Workforce Planning
Risk and HR Managers: No Talking!
With risk management having bloomed, for many companies, into an essential competency over the past decade, it only makes sense that enterprise risk managers would eventually begin spooning human-capital risk onto their plates. And that is happening — but very slowly, with relatively few yet digging in.
How to Improve Wind Energy Reliability with Cable Standards
When it comes to advancing technologies for alternative energy, there are many issues to consider. Those that impact the system’s efficiency, reliability and life-cycle cost should be at the top of the priority list. For example, it’s important to be sure that the cables specified for the wind farm align with the standards of the larger grid. To specify anything less is short-term thinking that could result in lost revenue due to downtime, expensive repairs and negative publicity.
Recruitment
Talent acquisition & engaging critical talent are top challenges for organizations
Talent acquisition and engaging critical talent are top challenges for organizations Banking and financial services along with the manufacturing sector doled out higher salary hikes compared with other sectors in 2011, according to a Compensation Trend Study from Deloitte.
Legislation Would Bar Hiring Discrimination Against Unemployed Applicants
Both versions of the Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2011 would make it illegal for an employer to: refuse to consider for employment or refuse to offer employment to an individual because of the individual’s status as unemployed; publish in print, on the Internet or in any other media, an advertisement or announcement for any job that includes any provision stating or indicating that an individual’s status as unemployed disqualifies the individual for a job (“must be currently employed”); and direct or request that an employment agency take an individual’s status as unemployed into account in screening or referring applicants for employment.
Talent Management
The Five Drivers of Happiness at Work
And the “science of happiness at work” has big benefits for individuals too. If you’re really happy at work, you’ll solve problems faster, be more creative, adapt fastest to change, receive better feedback, get promoted quicker and earn more over the long-term.
Do Happier People Work Harder?
Employee engagement may seem like a frill in a downturn economy. But it can make a big difference in a company’s survival. In a 2010 study, James K. Harter and colleagues found that lower job satisfaction foreshadowed poorer bottom-line performance.
Talent Development
A New Look at Engagement
By: Barb Krantz Taylor Source: Talent Management Original Article Here are nine intangible elements of work that employees rank much higher than salary or perks on engagement surveys. Engaged employees perform at 100 percent of their ability, but the most highly engaged employees perform at 122 percent. This was an assertion made during a Towers [...]
Lessons From My Brother On Life, Career, and Taking a Different Path
But there is no one size that fits all for anything anymore. There is also no career ladder anymore, but there is a lattice. Each person’s career journey is different. Career development today is so much more than just identifying a series of career moves or steps on a walkway to the Holy Grail of career nirvana. Everyone has to understand their own personal brand.
