How successful have your talent management initiatives been?  Can you see an improvement in your retention rates and your readiness rates for advancement?  Has your exterior hire rate for key positions decreased?  Can you even measure these things?  A fixed ‘current rate’ isn’t near as impactful as the ability to see the trends over time, overlaid with other business drivers and sliced by the critical demographics.  If you can’t measure the impact of your talent management investments, then you need to make some changes fast.  Otherwise, you are destined to miss opportunities, not get funding for future initiatives, miss interpret the numbers and not adapt your programs for the future.

Measurement needs to happen in talent management from many perspectives. Two of them are very obvious. read more »

The movie Glengarry Glen Ross introduced the sales catchphrase “ABC: Always Be Closing” to pop culture. Here’s one for HR: “ABP: Always Be Planning.” It’s an especially good philosophy to follow when it comes to talent management.

Think about it – if we are thinking ahead in terms of talent development and management, then we’ll be prepared for change with resources at the ready (to a degree, of course). Take the 9 box, for example. If your company consistently rates and reviews top talent, you benefit in a couple of ways. First, you can easily see read more »

Job hunting is rarely a fun experience, but it is even less so in a trying economy where unemployment is hovering near 10%.   If you read the papers and watch the news you hear that jobs are out there, but those out of work often do not have the skill sets that these open positions require.  So, the question for a job seeker is how do you gain, and more importantly portray, that you have these skills to a potential employer? read more »

We are thrilled to unveil our new video promotion of the 2010 HR Top Product award winner, Aquire’s InSight for Workforce Analytics. Our marketing team has been working diligently to give you a peek of how InSight will turn piles of raw data into actionable analytics for leaders.

Our tool allows professionals to…

• Analyze trends at every level of the organization
• Know where your talent is headed and the reason why
• Slice and dice analytics to get to the heart of any workforce problem
• And, create workforce reports you need when you need them

So, take a look and let us know what you think. And afterwards, grab the free white paper below.

I am reviewing the nominations and candidates for Aquire’s employee awards.  This process always makes me so proud of our team. It also makes me reflect over the year’s achievements and the history of our awards.

We have the “Top Gun” award, which goes to the top salesperson.  The “Wingman” award which is a vote of the sales team for who has helped them the most in getting their deals done.

We have a number of innovation awards to recognize the continuous innovation within the company.   read more »