Great leadership of high potential employees can be a grueling task. A View from Inside the Leadership Pipeline, an article by Dan McCarthy, gives some useful information about understanding and efficiently utilizing high potential employees. McCarthy notes that giving these employees what they want and what they need can be a challenge for any talent […]

In On the Importance of Taming Hiring Managers, an article by Lou Adler, author of Hire With Your Head, getting hiring managers to do the right thing in practice is not as easy as the concept implies. Alder provides a list of 6 mistakes hiring managers often make, including: 1. They knowingly let candidates accept offers […]

Top quality business management requires a unique skill set that goes above and beyond the title of ‘manager’. The State and Art of Management, an article written by Daniel J. Manginelli III for TalentManagment.com, discloses a few steps that a manager goes through to become a leader. Manginelli says that the title of manager does […]

In a discussion about Performance Management, Eileen M. Rogers and Daren Blonski collaborate on an article titled, “The Deliberate Optimist” for TalentManagement.com. To sustain a vision despite adversity, challenges, obstacles, and delays, a leader must have a strong personal conviction in the importance of the mission; be determined to achieve the goal; maintain openness to […]

From TalentMangement.com, Greg Williams and Stuart H. Weinstein write about the distinct competitive edge that organizations can gain through interns. Interns offer an organization a sneak peek into potential talent and roles they might conceivably play. The article notes that talent managers must go beyond traditional mindsets and recruiting approaches to set the stage for […]

Most organizations use some form of employee performance reviews as a formal setting to discuss expectations. These reviews are important to both the employee and supervisor since they provide information about employee performance. An article written by Donald Nickels and published by PayScale.com provides employers with 5 keys to successful employee performance reviews: Timeliness – […]

Damon Kitchen discloses a few “Helpful Hints to Effectively Communicate Across Generations” in an article published by Talent Management.com. As a large age spectrum in the workplace becomes more and more common, managers must create an effective strategy to clearly communicate with employees, co-workers, and subordinates of all ages. Numerous surveys and studies reveal that […]

In “Talent Management Perspectives”, an article published by Talent Management.com in May 2010, Eric J. Frankel parallels the adolescent’s inherent or, often not-so-inherent, drive in academia to your key employee’s drive to strive in the workplace. Frankel shines some light on what talent managers need to highlight in order to ensure that leaders and high-potential […]

Master Burnett wrote a recent article for the Human Capital Institute that identifies weaknesses in employee referral/incentive programs as a recruiting tool: Lots of staffing managers think they have a great referral program, but what they really have is an overly generic, ad-hoc managed program that isn’t designed to produce results when needed.  Such managers […]

According to a recent article by Amy Gallo for the Harvard Business Review, research has shown that when an economy starts to recover, the rate of turnover increases, with the “star” employees in particular heading out to greener pastures. Managers strive to stop the flow by offering various incentives. However, their options can be limited. […]