A Manager’s Mini Guide To Identifying and Assessing Leadership Potential | Allan Church via Training Industry

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Many organizations conduct a talent review process—where one goal is to accurately identify (and develop) employees with the greatest leadership potential. However, determining leadership potential can be difficult and is fraught with challenges, ranging from biases to invalid selection criteria. To help organizations more effectively differentiate “potential,” this article by Allan Church distinguishes three categories of …

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Global Performance Management Report 2023 | The Talent Strategy Group

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This newly released report provides insights into the practices organizations use (and don’t use) today in performance management (PM). Based on feedback from over 300 companies worldwide representing all sizes, the practices are organized into five sections: goal setting, coaching and feedback, reviewing, training, and technology. A few findings include: 1) 88% of companies have redesigned their PM in …

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Managing External Contributors in Workforce Ecosystems | MIT Sloan Management Review

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The number of contingent workers (CW)—those performing gig, contract, or freelance work—continues to grow in many organizations. However, firms often lack an integrated approach to managing their CW. This article provides considerations for integrating the management of both employees and external contributors.  It draws from a case study on Cisco, which has over 50,000 contingent workers — …

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Aligning Talent Management and Global Mobility: Shifting from Relocation Management to Global Talent Brokering | Mercer

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This 13-page paper provides ideas on how to drive greater alignment and linkages between an organization’s talent management and mobility teams. It argues that talent mobility—often associated with relocating talent—needs to be discussed in the broader context of the talent management cycle — including selection and long-term career management. However, the limited purview of many …

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The Skills Revolution is Now | Mercer

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Skills-based talent practices (SBTP) continue to be a focus of many firms. However, the shift to SBTP can be a long journey, requiring practitioners to answer various questions about the operationalization and implementation of SBTP. This paper provides insights into five of those questions: 1) What skills do we need, and how will we incorporate a skills taxonomy …

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10 Questions and Answers About Skills-Based Talent Practices | Curated from Deloitte’s Report on Skills

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Many organizations continue to make the transition to skills-based talent practices. As talent practitioners think through the various aspects of this transition, I have curated this one-page summary—comprised of 10 questions and answers— from Deloitte’s 101-page report, Building Tomorrow’s Skills-based Organization (SBO): Jobs Aren’t Working Anymore. The one page-summary addresses questions such as: How many organizations have successfully …

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Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition | Harvard Business Review

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As HR and business leaders reevaluate their organizations’ employee value proposition (EVP) to ensure competitiveness, this new article by Amy C. Edmondson and Mark Mortensen provides ideas to consider. They start by presenting four components of an EVP: 1) Material offerings (e.g., compensation, physical office space, location, commuting subsidies, computer equipment, flexibility, schedules, and perks. 2) Opportunities to …

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Employee Retention Risk Template | Brian Heger

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Employee retention continues to be a top concern for many organizations. This one-page template provides a way for managers to assess the retention risk of their employees on 13 retention risk indicators known as ‘pre-quitting behaviors.’ The questions are based on an article by JR Keller, Timothy Gardner, and Brad Winn published in The People + Strategy Journal and …

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3 Resources for Mitigating Bias in Performance Management | Multiples Sources

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One aim of effective performance management (PM) is objective and fair performance feedback and evaluations. And while organizations seek to achieve this goal, PM is imperfect and subject to bias. As organizations prepare for year-end performance discussions and evaluations, here are three references for mitigating PM bias. 1) Six Potential Indicators of Proximity Bias in the …

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Skills-Based Organization Playlist | Deloitte

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Skills-based talent practices continue to be a topic of interest for organizations looking to use skills—rather than just jobs—as the basis for talent management. And while there have been many great resources shared on this topic, Deloitte is one organization that has provided much thought leadership in this area. This one-page PDF highlights five of Deloitte’s …

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