Editor’s Note

The pandemic has changed the way we work. However, even in this challenging times, the right skillsets to meet companies’ current needs will help employees survive and thrive. Although reskilling and upskilling are the need of the hour, employees are also expected to learn quickly, adapt and commit to lifelong learning to push themselves and organizations ahead in this dynamic, digital and data-driven new world. And the best leaders and teams understand their role is to help navigate their people through the fog.
 

In this highly uncertain world of work, how can organizations fuel innovation, growth, and the bottom line? How can leaders help employees be driven and not drained? This issue of Talent Management Excellence helps address all these queries and more.

Prioritizing innovation today is crucial to unlocking post crisis growth. However, the focus on innovation has decreased in general, as organizations are focusing more on other short-term issues. With the shutdown or curtailment of new product development activities and many of those staff roles curtailed as well, what lies ahead for companies that have had to freeze their innovation and talent?  Check out our cover article, Mass Migration Of Innovation Talent Open To New Opportunities by John Hodge that talks about the importance of supporting and retaining innovation talent.

No matter your industry, the skills you need today are likely very different than what you were hiring for five years ago. With this being the norm and not the exception, why are so many HR departments still so fixated on time over mastery of skills? Jeremy Eskenazi’s article, Don’t Lose Great Talent By Focusing On Years Of Experience! puts forth four interviewing best practices to avoid ruling out the best talent for your organization.

Before you give up on an unmotivated employee, challenge yourself to search for clues about how to motivate them. Liz Uram’s article, Motivating The Un-motivated, helps you understand six common motivational factors and the clues to look for.

The view of the road ahead has been quite vague for many teams. With differing modes of communication, the expansion of remote workers, a global pandemic, issues of racism, social injustice and equity, political and economic uncertainty, all while continuing the pursuit to maximize the experience, product or service that you are delivering to the marketplace, things have become too complicated. Jason V. Barger’s article, Navigating Your Team Through The Fog, talks about how the best cultures proactively help their people navigate their way through the fog, together.

In brief, this edition of Talent Management Excellence includes informative articles that can help your employees, teams, and organizations be driven, motivated, engaged, and sustainably high-performing in 2021 and beyond. 

We hope you enjoy reading all the articles and get back to us with your valuable feedback.

Cheers!
 

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