Jennifer Pierce & Sandra Murray-Leduc - Hudson’s Bay Company: Building retail talent in one of the world’s oldest, continually operating companies
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Jennifer Pierce, Vice President of Talent Management and Sandra Murray-Leduc, National Success and Performance Manager for Hudson’s Bay Company discuss talent management challenges and successes they have experienced working in one of the oldest continually operating companies in the world. Jennifer and Sandra discuss how Hudson’s Bay Company leverages its frontline workforce as a source of future leadership talent. They explain how the necessity to save costs led to decentralizing succession management in a way that actually led to larger and better quality pools of high potential leadership candidates.
Learn state of the art succession management ideas from a company with over 300 years of talent management experience by listening to Jennifer Pierce and Sandra Murray-Leduc – this week on People Performance Radio.
Scott Powers - Alvarez & Marsal: Managing talent in a corporate turn-around environment
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Scott Powers, Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal discusses the role of talent management in corporate turn-arounds. Specializing in stabilizing and improving company performance, Alvarez & Marsal helps firms manage promising but underperforming organizations. Scott often acts as interim CEO for newly acquired company and has been instrumental in several major corporate turn-arounds. Scott discusses the role of talent management in his work, with an emphasis on the importance of goal management in ensuring companies stay focused when they are fighting for their very survival.
Find out what it takes to recapture momentum and rebuild the “winning attitude” that is often lost when companies run into financial crises. If you work with companies facing financial strain then you will definitely want to listen to Scott Powers – this week on People Performance Radio.
John Ambrose - Skillsoft: Using social media to support knowledge management
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John Ambrose, Senior Vice President of Strategy for Skillsoft discusses how technology is facilitating knowledge sharing among employees both within and across organizations. John discusses the difference between effective knowledge management search engines versus more common “Google” type internet search tools. He also provides insights into leveraging social networking tools such as “Twitter” to rapidly locate the information you need when you need it.
Whether you are a “twitter master” or don’t know a tweet from a twerp, learn from John Ambrose about how to more effectively manage your knowledge – this week on People Performance Radio.
Thomas Britt - Clemson University: High engagement and high maintenance
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Thomas Britt, psychology professor at Clemson University shares insights from research studying potential limitations and downsides of employee engagement. Thomas explains that highly engaged employees tend to have much more demanding expectations from employers in terms of the resources they expect from employers. The more employees care about performance the less they tolerate work conditions that do not allow them to perform at an optimal level. Highly engaged employees even become physically more stressed when companies set them up for what they perceive to be failure.
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Learn about the caring, nurturing and feeding of highly engaged employees: this week on People Performance Radio.
Susan Burns – Talent Synchronicity: Candidate relationship management
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Susan Burns, Chief Talent Strategist at Talent Synchronicity explains how staffing and recruiting functions are changing to create more adaptive and sustainable workforce strategies. The rate of change in business is rendering more static, position based workforce planning and staffing models obsolete. Susan discusses how this is changing the nature of recruiting from “filling positions” to “maintaining candidate relationships”. This includes relationships with both external candidates and existing employees who are looking to advance their careers.
Learn what someone who has long been on the forefront of employment branding and staffing is forecasting for the coming years. Start building your relationship with the future of talent management: this week on People Performance Radio.
Nigel Bristow - Targeted Learning: Managing knowledge workers
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Nigel Bristow, President and Founder of Targeted Learning shares insights gained from his 20+ year career helping companies maximize the performance of knowledge workers. Nigel shares five key stages of knowledge work: acquiring, applying, creating, sharing, and leveraging knowledge. He discusses the role each stage plays in workforce productivity and the challenges and unique issues associated with moving from one stage to another.
Whether you are a knowledge worker, manage knowledge workers, or just wish you had more knowledge, you will benefit from Nigel’s insights on knowledge work: this week on People Performance Radio.
Tom Mahan - Engaging with employees to gain high impact workforce intelligence
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Tom Mahan, President and CEO of The Work Institute discusses the concept of “workforce intelligence” and what it takes to truly understand the issues impacting employee retention and performance. Tom discusses what it means to move from making investments in talent management based on HR budgets to investing based on financial operating returns. He then share examples of highly involved talent management practices that go well beyond the typical employee survey to actively engage with employees at personal level to determine exactly what it is they need to be more productive.
Do you truly know what factors are limiting the performance and retention of your employees and how to resolve them? Find out one creative method for doing this by listening to Tom Mahan, this week on People Performance Radio.
Jeff Hunter - Maximizing performance of a highly creative workforce
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Jeff Hunter, Senior Director of EA University discusses the unique challenges of performing talent management in the interactive entertainment industry. Emphasizing the need to “monetize creativity”, Jeff discusses methods to maintain the productive levels of creative tension that are required to build highly innovative, engaging, and fun electronic games and applications. Recognizing the limitations of past talent management practices for this fast changing industry and employee population, EA is pushing the boundaries of what it means to build and maintain a steady supply of high performing talent.
Wonder what talent management may look like in 10 years. Get a sneak peak of how one company is seeking to redefine talent management practices by listening to Jeff Hunter: this week on People Performance Radio.
Steve Hunt - 52 weeks of People Performance Radio!
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This episode marks one year of People Performance Radio.
During this episode I encourage you to look in our archives and listen to some past shows. We avoid reruns here at People Performance Radio, but we do have a lot of interviews that are worth hearing more than once! Reflections on one year of talent management knowledge and insight: this week on People Performance Radio.
EasyReviews.com: free performance review software
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Jim Matheson, Director of Web Operations for SuccessFactors discusses EasyReviews, a new and FREE online tool to help managers conduct performance evaluations. Available at EasyReviews.com, this tool contains some of SuccessFactors most popular performance management features including the competency library, performance rating tool, and online writing and coaching assistant.
Jim explains why SuccessFactors decided to give this tool away for free. He discusses why SuccessFactors believes there is value in helping managers maximize the performance of their teams without requiring there organization to purchase the SuccessFactors system. Its free, its cool, and its all about talent management – Jim Matheson this week on People Performance Radio.
