Articles in the category of Talent Management

People and Risk - global terrorism

25/08/2009

In the second of the series on people and risk I have explored some ideas around loss of talent in additiion to sensible contingency planning. The focus continues to be applying the learning and thinking from contingency planning to everyday business. Read More >>

People and Risk - Retention

25/07/2009

This third commentary on people and risk focuses on retention.

The loss of talent is one of the main risks an organisation can face. Effective retention strategies need not cost additional money - indeed they can save money since they allow Read More >>

Recruiting via social networking sites

26/04/2009

Discussion on the benefits and ethics of using information published on social networking sites is rife. It seems to me, however, that the focus should be more on how best to use the information (and thus equip our recruiters) than to castigate the use a Read More >>

Spotting Talent

01/01/2009

How often do we spot real talent in unlikely places? And if we do spot it what do we do about this? Indeed, what can we do about this? My thoughts in this blog were stimulated by imagining the current chaos facing the BA traveller and from this meandered Read More >>