Talent Management's 3Rs: Don't miss the relationship piece

We all know about Reading, Writing and Arithmetic from our childhoods – the 3 Rs.In the HR and talent management world, there are another 3 Rs that are critical to the success of an HR organization – Recruitment, Retention and Relationships. As much focus that is placed on the first 2, it seems the relationship piece of the puzzle is often missing. And that’s a shame, because it is vital to the success of the organization, including the recruitment and retention pieces.

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Do You Need A Retention Refresher?: Benefits of retaining employees

At the end of 2014, CareerBuilder conducted a survey of more than 3,000 employers from multiple industries to figure out what will affect employee retention the most in 2015. According to the results, 30 percent of employees regularly search for jobs and 23 percent of employees in the 18-34 range expect to have a new job by the end of the year. You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again – employee retention is the key to company success. Just in case you need a little refresher, here are some benefits of retaining employees:

Enhance Your Company’s Corporate Training: 5 ways to do it

Hiring managers are often tasked with making sure employees have the skills they need to succeed at work. Naturally, they try to bring individuals on board who already have the experience necessary to be successful. But with jobs and roles constantly changing and employees being asked to do more outside their role, hiring managers are struggling to make sure their employees are equipped to do their jobs.

Predicting Job Performance: Reduce risk and increase quality of hire

Although hiring may not seem like predicting – or not as much like predicting as, say,picking election winners or forecasting the weather – when we hire people we predict. We predict that they will perform.

How To Attract Top Talent?: It’s not what you think

What’s the number one thing you can do to make sure your company succeeds? Some say sales or market fit or even a great product, but all of these are simply a market shift away from making your company irrelevant. In today’s knowledge and creative-based economy the absolute single most important thing you need to make sure your company will be successful, is talent!

Watch Your Language!: Words can help build a strong bench of talent

Words matter. The conversations we have with employees can inspire professional growth and ignite positive change. The adjectives we select when discussing an employee’s performance can make an impact on a person’s ability to embrace feedback and grow. Words are the way we help our teams improve and thrive. Words are the foundation of effective strategic talent management, from selecting individuals to join an organization, to developing them, and pushing their performance as valuable members of the bench.

3 Types Of Learning Content: The need for learning speed

Writing training materials used to be so easy. It was the job of one department, and that department wrote almost every source that we learned from. Course, book or job aid, the Training Department produced them all to keep employees skilled and knowledgeable for their work.

Training vs. Learning: Do you want to train? Or have someone learn?

Training successfully educates only those who are predisposed to the new material. Others may endeavor to learn during class but may not permanently adopt it. The problem isn’t the value of information or the eagerness of the learner: It’s a problem with both the training model itself and the way learners learn. It’s a systems/change problem.

Leading Millennials And Beyond!: Business leaders must adapt to the “new normal.”

I admit it, I am a Baby Boomer. Part of the cohort of people born post- World War II. Subsequent to the Boomers came Generation X, Y, and then the Millennials. Depending on the source, Generation Y are sometimes referred to as Millennials as well. According to The White House, Millennials are the cohort of Americans born between 1980 and the mid-2000s. Also, according to The White House, in 2013, Millennials represented one-third of the total U.S. population. The cohort after Millennials is usually referred to as Generation Z.