Ready, Willing, but not Able: Succession Planning in Ireland & the U.K.
July 21, 2008
Companies embrace the idea of Succession Planning and Talent Management with great enthusiasm, but rarely put the mechanisms and tools in place to effectively follow through on their initiatives. SuccessFactors Research recently conducted a survey of Succession and Talent Management…
Do you shop at TalentMart?
October 26, 2006
A good little tidbit from McKinsey on creating talent marketplaces that allow employees to find the best opportunities for them within their existing companies.
I’ve seen huge reductions in recruiting costs and higher employee engagement come from better succession planning -which…
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…
Leadership development is not (only) HR’s job
March 3, 2006
Or so says this HBS article (via Be Excellent).
Instead, they argue it’s the job of every operating manager and senior management up to and including the board should play a part:
In this worldview, it is part of the line manager’s…
Divining vendor intentions
February 9, 2006
In business, but especially in the technology world, you can sometimes figure out what a company is planning by looking through their job descriptions. As an example, here’s an old post from one of my favorite gadget blogs, engadget, about…
Preparing for Brain Drain
February 3, 2006
Are you prepared for the boomer brain drain? The oldest baby boomers are now only a few years away from retirement. What happens to the knowledge they’ve accumulated over the years when they leave? CIO magazine has a new article…
Succession planning the new recruiting?
January 3, 2006
Here’s a little ditty at CLO magazine about the shift from recruiting to succession planning. As the talent pool decreases and boomers retire, companies are finding they simply don’t have enough good people to fill senior roles. According to the Right…
Succession planning beef, anyone?
December 14, 2005
Sometimes all the high-level talk about performance management can leave you - how should I put this? - wanting more. Today I sat through a 45 minute webinar that left me thinking - "alright, I know you CAN do it,…
The Next Y2K - Talent Management?
November 15, 2005
Got a tip on this interview with a Deloitte HR consultant named Andy Peck on Talent Management / Succession Planning.
His Take:
The biggest long-term issue is the lack of talent-management strategies and the relationship with changing demographics. By 2008 many baby…
Poor Succession Planning Hurts
October 27, 2005
This article at Management Issues brings home the fact that poor succession planning can really hurt a company. According to the article, when a top executive leaves a public company, stock prices tend to fall. But when the company has no…
