Jodi Glickman wrote a book called Great on the Job focused on helping college students make a successful step into the workplace, but the advice goes beyond just students. Talent management start with great conversations, and this book provides loads of great advice as to what that looks like. A great addition to any talent management library.
Talent management is not all about learning and striving. Sometimes it is about resetting. Here is a cute video that is perfect for a friday chuckle. It can also be a great activity for a team meeting.
Jodi Glickman’s book Great on The Job is focused on new or soon to be new graduates and what they can do to ensure their career starts with some positive first steps. Talent management is about great conversations, and this book is full of tips for individuals to make great conversations happen that will help move them towards professional success. This is the first in a series of posts that will end in a full review of the book and an interview with the author – Jodi Glickman.
Time management and talent management go hand in hand. How do you spend your time? How should you spend your time? Whether you are an entrepreneur or a seasoned leader immersed in an efficiency or growth challenge, this is worthwhile exercise for you and your team.
Happiness research tells us it is not the big things, but the cumulative effect of little moments that matters. If we impact each other in positive ways, then lots of good things happen in our teams and our business. Fridays are not the only day to smile, but a good day to try some purposeful things to impact the lives of others. This is talent management, and it is fun.
Talent management is about getting people to feel good about what they are doing, focused on some clear outcomes, and getting things done that they can point at with pride. This is engagement. Recognition programs gone the wrong way end up with a powerpoint slideshow or a physcial ‘recognition toolkit’ that become symbols of checking the box, not engaging the heart.
Talent management is about having conversations. It is also about people bringing self awareness to the conversation and using that information to have a more effective conversation. This post uses a TED talk about introversion to explore what we (leaders and followers) need to do to make this a rich conversation. Great talent management is enabled by self awareness.
Talent management is not about training, it is about awareness, individual ownership, and an ongoing partnership between leaders and followers to get better. I joined an HBR study on happiness and here is some reflections on what I have learned.
Talent management is about great conversations. In order for it to work, an individual needs to bring an awareness of who they are so decisions made can reflect the needs of the team, the individual, and the organization. Assessments are helpful in giving the talent (people) in your organization a baseline of information to build that self awareness. Here is my opinion of how those assessments stack up.
Three question process for the selection piece of talent management? Not likely, but it highlights a good way to have a final discussion about the fit of a candidate to a role/organization and for a candidate to asess their own alignment with the role. Good talent management and leadership development topic.
Assessments in talent management – whether it is selection, high potential development, career development, leadership development, or any of the other pieces – is important. Here are 4 traps and a truth around using asssessments so you can make a good buy instead of being sold something that will not work.
Career development planning is about choices. It is about thinking about what we want to be doing in the future, and preparing ourselves to meet a goal for prepare ourselves for a different path. At the heart of talent management is preparing the individual to bring an awareness of self to this conversation and helping the leader listen, guide, direct, challenge, and ultimately partner. Talent management is about great conversations, and at the heart of those conversations is ultimately a choice.