Blog:Author: Bill Treasurer | Source: HCI
| May 9, 2012
Courage, according to Aristotle, is the first virtue…because it makes all the other virtues possible. If that’s true, then courage is also the first business virtue. After all, courage is the lifeblood of such important business concepts as leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Indeed, in the absence of courage, these concepts don’t exist!
But how do you go about being courageous during tough economic times? more »
Blog:Author: Dr. Roy Pollock | Source: HCI
| May 2, 2012
Two alarming statistics crossed my desk recently which should be wake-up calls for all of us in learning and development.
The first was in a McKinsey Quarterly article entitled “Getting More from Your Training Programs.” What really got my attention was the third sentence of the opening paragraph: “only one-quarter of the respondents to a recent McKinsey survey said their training programs measurably improved business performance.” In other words, a whopping 75% of the senior managers that McKinsey surveyed felt that their training programs failed to contribute to the success of the business. more »
Blog:Author: Shane York | Source: HCI
| April 25, 2012
I have a friend (we all have this friend) who is successful, financially comfortable and yet not terribly happy. It makes you wonder, because these friends always seem to have it all - why wouldn’t they wake each morning and do the chicken dance? The “right spouse,” good job, big house, great kids, all the chocolate you want, but happiness still seems elusive. What about the other people we know who don’t have as much material goods, but are always upbeat and living life every day? Outside of basic living requirements, happiness has little to do with how much you own or how much you earn. It does however have everything to do with what’s in your head – and it turns out we can manipulate and change our happiness levels by taking a different view of everything around us. Turns out happiness is a choice; it’s all dependent on the lens you use to perceive the world, and that perception makes all the difference in how you live your life, and how you perform in business. more »
Blog:Author: Joy Kosta, HCS, SWP | Source: HCI
| April 19, 2012
When people talk about their ideas and your company and do it in places like Twitter, Facebook, Glass Ceiling, or in professional membership associations like HCI, that conversation is off the grid from leadership’s control. But it is not beyond anyone’s reach or authentic influence. more »
Blog:Author: Katherine Ratkiewicz | Source: HCI
| April 19, 2012
HCI is kicking off a brand new Guest Blogger Program where we will be featuring thought leaders on topics related to Talent Management each month! Here’s your opportunity to directly engage with our 195,000 members worldwide to share best practices, “next practices," new ideas or even case studies on the most important human capital issues of our time. more »
Blog:Author: Joy Kosta, HCS, SWP | Source: HCI
| April 11, 2012
Earlier this week I had an interesting conversation with an Enterprise member who said, “We want [insert industry specific] people who happen to work in HR, not HR people who happen to work in our industry.” What a deployment and talent development opportunity! Whatever your industry specific is, as a leader of talent management, would this phrase describe the people on your team? more »
Blog:Author: Russell Lobsenz | Source: HCI
| April 10, 2012
"There is No Career Path,""Career Paths are Dead," or the slightly less fatalistic "Career Paths Fade Away" - all recent headlines in notable news outlets teeing up a topic on the minds of a large swath of employees and employers alike. I have many concerns about formalized career paths, but luckily for readers, austere editorial constraints prevent me from droning on and on! Alas, I will try to focus my 750 words on the issues I find most neglected and absent from the majority of discussions I’ve read on the topic of career paths. more »
Blog:Author: Katherine Ratkiewicz | Source: HCI
| April 5, 2012
Competency models happen to be one of my favorite aspects of Talent Management. They provide organizations with a common language and consistent framework for performance within an organization. They help to define what’s really important. It is arguably one of the most critical roles of HR and Talent Management professionals to spend the time doing the hard work of identifying, defining, and regularly measuring the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) necessary for success for each role within a given organization. I think we can all agree that it’s difficult to make real progress from a performance management, career development, or succession planning perspective without having a customized, robust competency model developed specifically for an organization. more »
A stone the size of a quarter – when thrown with the right amount of force and flick of the wrist into water - can immediately create a ripple that begins as one and just as quickly becomes two, and three, and four, and so on. This minute event has always served as a cliché reminder to me that one large stone being plopped into the water sometimes cannot compare to the diffusive reaction a small rock can cause. more »