Unskilled or Incompetent
August 22, 2008
Ask anyone which is worse, an unskilled person or an incompetent person and I’d bet money most will answer incompetent. Why? The difference in meaning is subtle, but profound. An unskilled person can be trained. The word incompetent implies that…
Retention is up, that’s great! Wait, maybe not…
March 14, 2008
Though engagement levels are correlated with retention it is important that we don’t mix them up. We know that when the economy slows down people will have fewer opportunities to find great jobs elsewhere and out of necessity will decide to…
Give the Gift of Great Performance this Year
December 18, 2007
Erik’s note: We’re happy to present another guest post by Chris Lozaga a Research Analyst in SuccessFactors Global Research team
The holiday season has different implications for everyone – the sales team is busy trying to close those year-end deals,…
Where is Here?
October 25, 2007
Erik’s note: We’re happy to present this guest post by Chris Lozaga a Research Analyst in SuccessFactors Global Research team
I once taught a class designed to introduce senior citizens to computers. By far, the internet was the most difficult…
A spoonful of sugar
May 17, 2007
Dion Hinchcliffe, a well-known blogger and thought leader in the Enterprise 2.0 space wrote a post recently in which he talked about the next generation of business software – social, interactive tools easily delivered over the Web – and how they…
Findings from our Research on the Impact of Competencies in Financial Performance
January 15, 2007
A guest post by Josh Bersin - CEO, Bersin & Associates
Competencies are one of the most difficult and under-utilized part of performance management. Bersin & Associates research shows that only 36% of organizations with performance management process rate their use…
A sad, sad fable…
June 1, 2006
About an American company. As told by Jason Corsello.
It’s an entertaining tale, you should read it even if just for a laugh. But it make you take note of the fact that Performance management ain’t a cure for stupidity, –…
Nuts and Bolts of Succession
May 12, 2006
I was directed to this very good article from WPS magazine called Succession Planning: The Nuts and Bolts of the Process which is sort of a primer on succession planning. A couple of its most enlightening observations are that 1. people often…
Up, up and away
May 2, 2006
The 2006 talent management survey, conducted by IHRIM and Knowledge Infusion, found that 77% of the HR professionals think that talent management will only increase in importance over the next three years.
Some of the factors, according to Jason Averbrook of…
Catch the wave
April 6, 2006
Jason Corsello of The Yankee Group (who writes a blog in his spare time and has a nice looking dog called Larry) in his growth forecast for the talent management market says: “”As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile and global, companies that…
