As part of reviewing a Company’s recruiting process, the senior talent executive broached the subject of reviewing and updating the organization’s competencies – specifically a list of roughly ten behaviors expected of all employees. She pointed out to me that the competencies were probably outdated and should be refreshed. I asked how the competencies are…
Before you can deploy effective talent programs, processes, and practices there must be a common understanding of the definition of talent. Talent can mean different things to different leaders within your organization. Recently, I was engaged with an expert team discussing a client’s desire to use talent as a source of competitive advantage. The executive…
Recently, I was talking to one of my clients in the senior talent position at her company. As we were discussing the role of managers in talent management, the subject came up of teaching managers to have “engaging communications” with their employees. The focus was around what you would expect: delivering feedback, delivering performance results,…