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Interview: Teresa Fearis from SHL

In a follow up to last week’s show on competencies with Lominger, Dr. Steve and Jim chat with Teresa Fearis from SHL about assessments and how they help a company gauge behavioral competencies. SHL helps companies maximize talent and improve recruiting. Predicting future behavior, especially across the many cultures of a global company can be tricky. You can maximize productivity of your workforce by conducting behavioral assessments. You just need to make sure the assessments have enough statistics behind it to mathematically predict the actual future performance.

Don’t forget to stick around after the interview as Dr. Steve gives us some additional food for thought!

About SHL Group Limited

SHL is a world-leading provider of objective employment assessment and development solutions. The company supports organizations in the selection, recruitment, promotion, succession planning and development of talented people at all levels and across all sectors. Operating in 40 countries and more than 30 languages, the SHL Group devises innovative approaches to help organizations increase productivity and gain competitive advantage through the more effective use of their human capital. SHL has over 15,500 organizations as clients, including many of the Global and Times Top 1000, and is recognized as the foremost provider of objective assessment products in the world. For more information, please visit www.shl.com.

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Interview: Zoe Hruby from Lominger

This week’s topic is competency development. Dr. Steve sat down with Zoe Hruby from Lominger and discuss how performance challenges are often around behavioral competencies as well as the need to identify and develop future leaders based upon competency assessment.

Founded in 1991, Lominger Limited, Inc., developers of the internationally recognized LEADERSHIP ARCHITECT Suite, equips executives, managers, and human resource professionals in the world’s leading organizations with the tools, research and expertise they need to transform their organizations into best practice centers of leadership. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lominger markets its suite of research-based products in 56 countries using internal experts, an international network of associates, a professional consulting division, Lominger Consulting, Inc., and a comprehensive network of strategic alliance and technology partners.

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No big news stories this week, but Dr. Steve finally learns the the phone number to our feedback line 206-203-4521. They discussed on social networking continues to creep into the future of Talent Management including a new commercial around the future of work (video version).

Interview: Marylin Hendrics from PDI

PDI is best known for work in assessment, but they also have a strong leadership development practice, which was the focus of our discussion today.

Marylin reminds us that making decisions in talent is a combination of art and science. It is really important to focus on reducing the risk of failure, especially in the C level.

In today’s day and age there many high level execs and managers retiring, subsequently there is a big push to focus on the development of future leaders. Are those following in the footsteps ready for the challenge?

When it comes to identifying and developing future leaders you really need to have a technology system like SuccessFactors to gain visibility into the talent pool and who these individuals will be.

Don’t forget, the metrics that matters most is performance. For example in retail, the business results that you can achieve between an A player and a C player can be astronomical. Always keep in mind how much your talent strategy plays a part in your business success.

PDI is a one of SuccessFactors Consulting Partners
About PDI
Personnel Decisions International (PDI) is a global human resources consulting firm with distinctive expertise in building leadership talent that provides real competitive advantage. With over 700 team members in 28 offices around the globe, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, enabling them to make consistently effective decisions about leaders.

Listen to People Performance Radio Episode 10:

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With the Independence Day holiday here in the US, Dr. Steve and the Mad Dog kept this week’s episode short and sweet.

Interview: Troy Heinritz from CDW

In his first interview (it shows), Jim caught up with Troy Heinritz, Senior HRIS Analyst at CDW Corporation to talk about their implementation of SuccessFactors. Initially CDW focused on Succession (press release), but have subsequently expanded into the rest of the product suite.

If you are looking to implement a Talent Management System there are a few key points to look for in this interview.

1) CDW started out with a focus on automation, but over time they saw so many more benefits to having an integrated SaaS Talent Management Solution.

2) You need to have realistic expectations around ROI. It is achievable (read study, listen to Episode 6), but it will take a bit of time.

3) Getting high adoption rates is a key factor to success.

4) You can learn from new clients too! - With SuccessFactors on-demand technology, you can upgrade when you
are ready. New clients can teach you the ropes through the SuccessFactors Customer Community.