May 16, 2013 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about online hiring tools, talent poaching, onboarding, what to do after the talent review, and retaining top talent. From the NY Times: Online Hiring Tools Are Changing Recruiting [...]
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May 14, 2013 by Wally Bock
“You don’t know how good you’ve got it!” I almost said that. I was chatting with a young friend. I wasn’t thinking about how tough it was, walking in my bare feet through the snow to school, uphill both ways. I was thinking about coaching, or rather the lack of it in my day. My [...]
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May 9, 2013 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on redesigning your leadership development program, recruiting, why human-capital-smart manufacturers outperform their peers, and big data in hiring. From Charlotte Hughes: Do You Need To Redesign Your Leadership [...]
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May 7, 2013 by Wally Bock
For me, it was all about pinball. Video games were far in the future. There weren’t computers for the masses, so there wasn’t even pong. But there was pinball. I spent an awful lot of time standing in front of a pinball machine, feeding it nickels, flipping the flippers, watching the ball, and listening to [...]
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May 2, 2013 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on agile learning, how big data is influencing recruiting, rethinking the workplace, creating your own succession plan, and three cutting edge talent management practices from Silicon Valley. From [...]
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April 30, 2013 by Wally Bock
Evidence-based decisions are good. We all seem to agree on that. But once you do, you run up against a warning from economist Richard Thaler. “You can’t make evidence-based decisions without evidence.” So, where do you find evidence to use for your talent development decision making? Look for knowledgeable interpretations of research studies. Interpretation is [...]
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April 25, 2013 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about reviewing your talent assessment practices, the future of employee learning, trying a different part of the talent pool, and John Sullivan’s suggests for top recruiting topics. From [...]
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April 23, 2013 by Wally Bock
Back when tech stocks were booming and long before the bubble burst, someone noticed that Warren Buffett didn’t have any of those hot stocks in his portfolio. Since everyone wants to have the kind of investing success that Buffett has enjoyed, someone was bound to ask about issue. Buffett’s reasoning was simple. He knew there [...]
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April 18, 2013 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about recruiting, management coaching, development goals, and high potentials. From Industry Week: Workforce: The Recruiting Challenge “In the battle for top talent, Shaw Industries continually refines its message [...]
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April 16, 2013 by Wally Bock
We’re not meant to run full speed all the time. That’s true for our daily lives where we need breaks and rest. It’s also true for effective talent development. Frederick the Great (1712 – 1786) asked: “What good is experience if you do not reflect?” The pace was slower in his day. Time for reflection [...]
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April 11, 2013 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about the most pressing concern for HR executives, the biggest trends in HR, big data and recruiting, modeling Google’s HR, and what to do about the ROI of [...]
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April 9, 2013 by Wally Bock
General Sir John Moore faced a challenge in the early 1800s. He had served in the British Army during the American Revolution where he experienced the effects of American marksmen. He was aware of what the French were doing with “light infantry” and he wanted to create light infantry units in the British Army. They [...]
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April 4, 2013 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces about onboarding, leadership development, and Walmart’s leadership academy. From HBS Working Knowledge: First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation “Employee orientation programs ought to be less about the [...]
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April 2, 2013 by Wally Bock
Leadership development is a big challenge for Walmart. They employ more than 2 million people, about three times the population of Charlotte, NC, where I live. Those people are in 27 different countries. You need lots of leaders for all levels of a company that big. And you want the quality to be high enough [...]
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March 28, 2013 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover talent development to find the very best talent development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to pieces on questions about leadership development, causes of the leadership shortage, more companies using outside recruiters, big data in recruiting and HR, and developing female leaders. From Dan McCarthy: [...]
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