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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Listen to People Performance Radio Episode 51:

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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, 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.

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Jim Irvine, Manager of Talent Management for Nissan North America describes how Nissan is increasing workforce productivity during what is probably the largest downturn in the history of the automotive industry. Operating under extreme financial pressure, Nissan has developed highly innovative methods to build talent through engaging employees at both a rational and emotional level. By rethinking what performance management should be, Nissan has increased productivity without increasing talent management costs. Highlights include moving from a once a year performance management event to an integrated series of 6 separate performance dialogues, providing managers with feedback on the quality of their feedback, and engaging managers to view performance management as an enabling process and not an administrative constraint.

Want to shift your talent management methods into overdrive? Listen to Jim Irvine from Nissan North America this week on People Performance Radio.

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Tess Reinhard, Director of Organizational Capability for CDW discusses methods to maximize the productivity and engagement of technology employees. CDW is a multibillion dollar technology company with a workforce largely comprised of recent college graduates with strong technical skills. Tess shares techniques CDW uses to develop mentoring relationships between these relatively new employees and more tenured company experts. She also discusses some of the benefits, challenges, and realities associated with managing a workforce filled with “generation Y” workers.

If you want to maximize the performance of ambitious, technology savvy, but relatively inexperienced employees then get some ideas from someone who has done it. Listen to Tess Reinhard this week on People Performance Radio.

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Dr. Kirk Hallowell, principal at Matchpoint Coaching, is a talent management expert with extensive experience in leadership development, succession planning, and workforce analytics. Kirk and Steve discuss the challenge of engaging executives and line managers in meaningful dialogue around complex talent management issues. Kirk draws on his experiences working with senior, line level leaders to explain the power of using illustrative stories to capture executives’ attention around important talent management issues.

If you want to matter to the people that matter, listen to what Kirk Hallowell has to say this week on People Performance Radio.

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Dr. Mike Hudy is a principal at Shaker Consulting, a company specializing in web-enabled employee recruitment and selection methods. Mike describes the Virtual Job Tryout (VJT), a staffing tool that has been called one of the most innovative selection systems on the market. Currently used by several well known national companies, the VJT allows candidates to experience a job before they are ever interviewed. It integrates job simulations with psychometric assessments to create a staffing process that candidates and recruiters have described as efficient, entertaining, and accurate.

If you are looking for a selection tool that goes beyond traditional personality measures, ability tests or screening questionnaires, then listen to Mike Hudy describe a new staffing method designed to simultaneously educate, entice and evaluate candidates all at the same time – this week on People Performance Radio.

Listen to People Performance Radio Episode 44:

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Nicholas Garbis, Senior Consultant at Infohrm, shares insights and tips for diagnosing, forecasting and planning to address current and future workforce trending. He explains what workforce analytics is and how it helps companies make more intelligent decisions around managing their most expensive asset, their employees. Nick also discusses “data heroics” and some of the other challenges to developing effective workforce plans that will stand up over time.

Learn data driven techniques to ensure you have the talent you need when you need it – this week on People Performance Radio.