(February 26, 2009) A new, comprehensive assessment trends report has been released. The 2009 Global Assessment Trends Report shines a light on talent measurement practices world-wide and will help you evaluate your own practices related to assessing current and future employees. One hundred and seventy companies from around the world responded to PreVisor's Global Assessment Trends Survey to provide their perspectives on talent measurement practices and trends. Key findings from the report are listed below:
KEY FINDING 1:
Top Talent Management Priorities for 2009
External Recruiting/Hiring and Performance Management are top priorities for companies around the world in 2009. Internal Promotion/Placement is third in priority for U.S. companies, and Career Development is third in priority for companies outside the U.S.
KEY FINDING 2:
Top Talent Management Increases in Priorities from 2008 to 2009
Areas with the highest projected increase in priority for U.S. companies include Competency Modeling, Career Development, and Bench Strength Analysis; whereas outside the U.S., Succession Planning and External Recruiting/Hiring showed the greatest increase.
KEY FINDING 3:
Organizations agree that Assessments are Valuable
Approximately 95% of all companies believe testing is a valuable part of their hiring process. Nearly 50% of clients collect metrics to show the value of such HR investments.
KEY FINDING 4:
Preference for Simulated, Real-world Assessments
Most organizations indicated their preference to use realistic assessments. While many are not using job simulations yet today, more clients plan to expand usage of simulations in the next year as compared to other assessment types.
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Quote of the Day
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
- Fernando Flores
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Leadership, Leadership
(February 25, 2009) The Society for Human Resource Management reports Leading Now, Leading the Future: What Senior HR Leaders Need to Know identifies eight leadership skills essential for senior Human Resources leaders. Senior HR professionals employed in global organizations, SHRM found that they need to possess both a global mindset and the ability to be flexible in order to adapt to changing global business needs.
Skills include:
* Knowledge of business, HR and organizational operations,
* Knowledge of business, HR and organizational operations,
* Strategic thinking and critical/analytical thinking,
* Leading change,
* Effective communication,
* Credibility,
* Results orientation and drive for performance,
* Ethical behavior, and
*Persuasiveness and the ability to influence others.
Now, if this list of skills is too daunting, plastic surgery could be an possibility.
According to CC Holland a nose job may lift your Leadership Skills?
The newest trend in cosmetic surgery, apparently, is nipping and tucking for your job. Not content to Botox their brows into submission merely for personal primping, workplace go-getters (men as well as women) are turning to appearance enhancement for career advancement.
No lesser an authority than His Hairness, Donald Trump, argues that attractive people inspire more teamwork. He cites a study that found, in part, that people expect beautiful people to be more cooperative, and thus behave more cooperatively toward them when they are in the same group. A U.S. News and World Report article notes that employees tend to be willing to do more for better-looking bosses and attractive supervisors are perceived as more credible and more persuasive. Author Gordon Patzer ("Looks: Why They Matter More Than You Ever Imagined") suggests that turning to cosmetic enhancements such as eyelid surgery (increasingly popular among men), hair transplants, injectables such as Botox and Restylane and even teeth whitening may delay the decline of your workplace effectiveness as you age. (read more)
CC Holland
CC Holland is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a number of national magazines. Online, she was a columnist for AnchorDesk.com and writes regularly for Law.com and BNET. On the other side of the journalism desk, she's been a managing editor for ZDNet, CNet, and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where she earned an APTRA Best News Web Site award. About SHRMSociety for Human Resource Management is the worlds largest professional association devoted to HR management. Colleen Gildeacolleen@interbiznet.com Permalink . -. Todays Bugler . -. Send To a Friend . -. Readership Feedback
Four Steps In Strategic Planning
(February 24, 2009) In yesterdays article on planning we referenced the article, Water Cooler Talk Keeps Organizational Culture Real by Blake Ashforth of the W. P. Carey School of Business.
In the article, Ashforth equates workgroups to small tribal units that function as teams. Close teams functions better and get better results. Group members have a sense of belonging, know where assisitance is needed and have better communication even with fluid work locations.
"...an organization's chances of achieving its big goals and initiatives depends on how these goals are perceived through the lens of the tribe, and how that tribe interprets and acts on them." (read the entire article)
And the point here is that as you plan, always keep in mind that the tribe must execute the plan. You need buy in.
OK. You are ready to develop your strategic plan.
Strategic planning requires the examination of four areas:
Wow! Great work.
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In the article, Ashforth equates workgroups to small tribal units that function as teams. Close teams functions better and get better results. Group members have a sense of belonging, know where assisitance is needed and have better communication even with fluid work locations.
"...an organization's chances of achieving its big goals and initiatives depends on how these goals are perceived through the lens of the tribe, and how that tribe interprets and acts on them." (read the entire article)
And the point here is that as you plan, always keep in mind that the tribe must execute the plan. You need buy in.
OK. You are ready to develop your strategic plan.
1. Find a quiet place (alone or with a carefully picked core group). Usually away from the office.
2. Bring beverages and snacks, pads, pens, markers and paper, all reports on the status of the business, laptops and anything you require for uninterrupted, sustained thought.
3. Begin
Strategic planning requires the examination of four areas:
1. Where are you now?
2. What resources do you have to work with currently?
3. Where do you want to be?
4. How do you get from here to there?
1. Where are you now?
Current financials
Sales numbers
Sales costs
Sales cycle
Sales People
Products
Services
Web presence and stats
Morale
Public Persona
2. What resources do you have to work with currently?
Budget
War Chest
Buildings
Offices
Workspaces
Computers
Website
People
Employees
Contractors
Management
Sales
Support
Products
current inventory
3. Where do you want to be?
Take your list from number one.
What should no longer be on the list?
(ie. service that drains the organization of time and talent)
What should be addded?
(ie. new product, additional sales person, more advertising)
Define the new goals and targets (be specific)
4. How do you get from here to there?
Take a really deep breathe at this point.
Now let all the information you have been working with flow and brainstorm.
Write down all thoughts and possibilities.
Once this is completed;
Return to the list of where you want to be (3)
Look at how you will reallocate your resources to accomplish the new goals.
Where can you cut costs?
Where do you need to spend more?
Then, create a timeline (using software, a white board or a big sheet of paper.)
Map out the "How to" of how you get there over the timeline.
Wow! Great work.
Colleen Gildea
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Quotes In Review
Quote of the Day Journal:
Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
- Bill Clinton
Before beginning, plan carefully.
- Marcus T. Cicero
#1 of Top Ten Career Inspirational QuotesTo be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
- Sister Mary Lauretta (Read All Ten)
"A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!'" - Billie Joe Armstrong
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"
- Aristotle
"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Work is love made visible."
- Kahlil Gibran
FunCareerLabs offers Inspiration: "The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words."
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
Alfred Hitchcock
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"You must do the thing you think you can not do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."
- Mark Twain
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
- Jeff Bezos
"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!" - Peter de Jager
"Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary."
- Joseph O'Connor
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin
"A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable."
- Jim Collins
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."
- Mencius
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
- Denis Waitley
"Be bold, daring; go outside of the familiar territory that you know. Realize you can handle it, know that you can, be more, do more and have more confidence."
- Anonymous
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber
"It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation that give you happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The quality of an organization is only as good as the quality of its relationships."
- Sherene McHenry, Ph.D, McHenry International
"Our purpose in life is to find our gift, perfect it and give it back to others"
- Marcia Brixey, MoneyWiseWomen
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
- Greg Anderson
Read the Recruiting News at interbiznet.com
Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
- Bill Clinton
Before beginning, plan carefully.
- Marcus T. Cicero
#1 of Top Ten Career Inspirational QuotesTo be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
- Sister Mary Lauretta (Read All Ten)
"A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!'" - Billie Joe Armstrong
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"
- Aristotle
"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
"Work is love made visible."
- Kahlil Gibran
FunCareerLabs offers Inspiration: "The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words."
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
Alfred Hitchcock
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"You must do the thing you think you can not do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."
- Mark Twain
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
- Jeff Bezos
"Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!" - Peter de Jager
"Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary."
- Joseph O'Connor
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin
"A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable."
- Jim Collins
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."
- Mencius
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
- Denis Waitley
"Be bold, daring; go outside of the familiar territory that you know. Realize you can handle it, know that you can, be more, do more and have more confidence."
- Anonymous
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber
"It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation that give you happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The quality of an organization is only as good as the quality of its relationships."
- Sherene McHenry, Ph.D, McHenry International
"Our purpose in life is to find our gift, perfect it and give it back to others"
- Marcia Brixey, MoneyWiseWomen
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."
- Greg Anderson
Read the Recruiting News at interbiznet.com
Monday, February 23, 2009
Hard Economic Times
(February 23, 2009) The only news story last night that did not start with "In these hard economic times" was the Oscars. (Here is a quick review of the Oscar nominations and winners to keep you up on the office water cooler talk.) Focusing on the best way to plan and execute our jobs and move our company forward should be part of our work in all economic times. A review of the interbiznet archives will reveal volumes of material on how to execute strategic planning, workforce planning, retirement planning, media planning and just plain old planning.The HCI has a wide range of interesting training programs and a new study on Integrated Resource Management and workforce planning.
According to a joint study conducted by the Human Capital Institute (HCI) and TAPFIN Process Solutions, there is an emerging trend of companies utilizing Integrated Resource Management as a way to utilize their workforce in a more strategic fashion. Integrated Resource Management is an approach that manages talent across the entirety of the workforce - including regular, part-time and contract employees - and is in synergy with an organization's business strategy. The Human Capital Institute, a global professional association and think tank, and TAPFIN, a leading business process outsourcing provider of end-to-end human capital management solutions, co-sponsored the study to better understand how organizations can better direct their talent management strategies. (read more)
For many great articles on planning search the interbiznet archives.
Colleen Gildea
colleen@interbiznet.com
Permalink . -. Todays Bugler . -. Send To a Friend . -. Readership Feedback Quote of the DayBefore beginning, plan carefully.- Marcus T. Cicero(Quote Archive)
According to a joint study conducted by the Human Capital Institute (HCI) and TAPFIN Process Solutions, there is an emerging trend of companies utilizing Integrated Resource Management as a way to utilize their workforce in a more strategic fashion. Integrated Resource Management is an approach that manages talent across the entirety of the workforce - including regular, part-time and contract employees - and is in synergy with an organization's business strategy. The Human Capital Institute, a global professional association and think tank, and TAPFIN, a leading business process outsourcing provider of end-to-end human capital management solutions, co-sponsored the study to better understand how organizations can better direct their talent management strategies. (read more)
For many great articles on planning search the interbiznet archives.
Colleen Gildea
colleen@interbiznet.com
Permalink . -. Todays Bugler . -. Send To a Friend . -. Readership Feedback Quote of the DayBefore beginning, plan carefully.- Marcus T. Cicero(Quote Archive)
Quote of the Day
Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
- Bill Clinton
Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
- Bill Clinton
Friday, February 20, 2009
Comings & Goings (February 20, 2009) The Center for Talent Solutions announced today that CEO and Chief Talent Leader Derrick Barton will join the RecruitingTrends.com advisory board.
Amy Jones joins the Houston, Texas, office of executive search and contract consulting firm HR Search Firm.
Fisher Vista, LLC announced that Kevin Grossman has been named president of its HRmarketer.com division.
Talent management software company Authoria Inc. has named Joseph Kaddis, Jr. as vice president sales. He was most recently vice president of North American sales and business development for Panorama Software.
The Training Associates, a Westborough, MA-based trainer staffing and consulting service, has hired two new employees, Richard G. Shulman as manager of strategic partnerships and Stephanie M. Orsi as an associate client representative.
Robertson Lowstuter, specializing in coaching, developing, and transitioning executives, is pleased to announce that Stephen Axel, Pat Mater, and Barbara Hancock Annin have been added to its executive coaching team.
Marketing executive Shira Goodman was appointed executive vice president of human resources at Framingham,MA-based office supply company Staples Inc.. Patrick Blangy was named director of sales and marketing at Taj Boston.
CarterBaldwin executive search, a leading provider of retained executive search services, places Jim Smith as President/Chief Operating Officer and Richard E. Leigh, Jr. as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Bellevue, WA-based Motricity.
Monica Stellato joins Buck Consultants as a Director in the firm's Secaucus, NJ office.
LPK, the Cincinnati-based international brand design agency, has named Nathan Hendricks chief creative officer, succeeding. EVP Howard McIlvain, who will focus on Fortune 500 clients.
RTI International Metals Inc. hired Jeffery J. Smith as chief talent officer; promoted Lisa White to vice president, human resource-operations; and promoted Raymond Knapik to director of engineering services-titanium group.
Visit http://www.interbiznet.com/bugler/bugler_09.02.20.html
for current recruiting industry events.
Colleen Gildeacolleen@interbiznet.com
Amy Jones joins the Houston, Texas, office of executive search and contract consulting firm HR Search Firm.
Fisher Vista, LLC announced that Kevin Grossman has been named president of its HRmarketer.com division.
Talent management software company Authoria Inc. has named Joseph Kaddis, Jr. as vice president sales. He was most recently vice president of North American sales and business development for Panorama Software.
The Training Associates, a Westborough, MA-based trainer staffing and consulting service, has hired two new employees, Richard G. Shulman as manager of strategic partnerships and Stephanie M. Orsi as an associate client representative.
Robertson Lowstuter, specializing in coaching, developing, and transitioning executives, is pleased to announce that Stephen Axel, Pat Mater, and Barbara Hancock Annin have been added to its executive coaching team.
Marketing executive Shira Goodman was appointed executive vice president of human resources at Framingham,MA-based office supply company Staples Inc.. Patrick Blangy was named director of sales and marketing at Taj Boston.
CarterBaldwin executive search, a leading provider of retained executive search services, places Jim Smith as President/Chief Operating Officer and Richard E. Leigh, Jr. as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Bellevue, WA-based Motricity.
Monica Stellato joins Buck Consultants as a Director in the firm's Secaucus, NJ office.
LPK, the Cincinnati-based international brand design agency, has named Nathan Hendricks chief creative officer, succeeding. EVP Howard McIlvain, who will focus on Fortune 500 clients.
RTI International Metals Inc. hired Jeffery J. Smith as chief talent officer; promoted Lisa White to vice president, human resource-operations; and promoted Raymond Knapik to director of engineering services-titanium group.
Visit http://www.interbiznet.com/bugler/bugler_09.02.20.html
for current recruiting industry events.
Colleen Gildeacolleen@interbiznet.com
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Global Assessment Trends Report 2009
(February 17, 2009) PreVisor, the global leader in employment assessments and talent measurement solutions that connect employment decisions to business results, released its 1st annual Global Assessment Trends report summarizing findings from over 170 companies representing nearly two dozen industries located around the world. This first of its kind comprehensive survey will help human resources practitioners and consultants evaluate their own practices related to assessing current and future employees. (read more)
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Monday, February 16, 2009
SHRM Economic Stimulus Prize
(February 16, 2009) The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) honored 15 of its members for creating HR solutions that are successfully helping their companies survive the current economic crisis by avoiding layoffs, saving money and maintaining morale.Called the SHRM Economic Stimulus Prize, prizes were awarded to individual HR professionals, whose HR strategies produced a measurable and positive impact on business operations.The winning case studies highlight best HR practices (read more)
Quote of the Day
"And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement."
- Willard Libby
- Willard Libby
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