According to SHRM, “succession planning is an important talent management strategy to help identify and foster the development of high-potential employees. Succession plans focus on positions that are the most critical to the future needs of the organization” whereby “the goal is to ‘keep talent in the pipeline’ and have people in place for future…
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Retaining and Hiring Top Talent Amidst a Talent Shortage Globally, countries are reporting an average talent shortage of 77%. In other words, there are only 0.77 job seekers for every job opening. Based on Manpower’s Talent Shortage Annual Report, this is the highest reported global talent shortage in the last 16 years and this shortage…
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Most of us would agree that organizations that aspire to be successful need a strong, healthy, and engaged culture. Unfortunately, in the current business climate, organizations are struggling with rapid change, finding competitive advantage in a globalized economy, as well as finding, keeping, and motivating a changing workforce. An unhealthy organization culture is the single…
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While an excellent assessment for understanding personality types and team building, Four Quadrant Social Style Assessments (aka DISC type assessments) should never be used for pre-employment (hiring/selection) purposes for the following reasons – they: Are not validated (meant) for pre-employment purposes, Are not (reliable) predictive of a person’s future behavior, Are fake-able, and Present…
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No one enjoys dealing with the fallout of a wrong hiring decision, not the organization, not Human Resources, not the employee’s manager, and certainly not the employee. Research has shown that unconscious bias (i.e., making automatic associations based on characteristics that may have nothing to do with hiring factors such as race, age, gender, disability,…
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