Common Sense Talent Management

A comprehensive guide to using strategic HR methods to increase company performance. This book explains what strategic human resources means, how it differs from other HR activities, and why it is critical to business performance. It walks through key questions for designing, deploying and integrating different strategic HR processes including staffing, performance management, compensation, succession management, and development. The book also addresses the role of technology in strategic HR, and discusses how to get companies to support, adopt, and maintain effective strategic HR processes. The book includes dozens of illustrative examples of effective and ineffective strategic HR using stories drawn from a range of companies and industries.

So my story in brief - I got caught with my pants downI am a lot like a lot of you - it will never happen to me "I Thought" errrrrrr "Wrong"The fact is it could happen to you as it did me and remember I am in the industry and teach this stuff to my clients.I have had a toxic staff member that I had to terminate - I ended up in a consultation with Fair Work Australia - I followed the process or so I thought - I left out one little piece "Procedural Fairness" and paid the priceI had a complaint from a casual staff member that went before the Fair Work Commission under the "General Protections and adverse action" sections of the act - I did not know what these pieces of legislation were all about, but I do now - I paid the priceI had one of my casual staff sustain a serious injury on a site and under the work health and safety act was responsible for his rehabilitation and retraining - 3 years in the making and several hundred THOUSAND dollars later. Believe me - I paid the priceI have been audited by the state payroll tax commissionI Have been audited by the statutory bodies for workers compensationWe have been accused by a certain union of certain untruths and had to defend ourselvesWe have had employees steal and do the wrong thing and had to performance manage them out of the businessWe have had at one stage of our business life a toxic culture to which we had to completely turn around and now we have one of the best - I paid the price by losing great talent in the processWe have had four clients go bankrupt collectively owing us over one hundred thousand dollars and yet we worked through the challenge - I paid the priceYou name it - we have had more that our fair share of battles and we for the most part were covered with our internal systems & processes but we took some heavy financial hits along the way - But we learnt and built a framework to teach our clients.I thought I was safe - Nobody isThis book will give you the blueprint for building a solid foundation around the common HR Principles that every business owner is challenged with on a day to day basis. This book may just save you from a fraction of the battles I went through - Enjoy

The Information Age is OVER -- In business today, it is all about TALENT! "Smart Is Not Enough" explains the core issue of 21st century business. Forget technology - Forget outsourcing TALENT is the #1 challenge in your organization. Whether you're a CEO or an entry level college grad; whether you manage a staff or not, this book is for you. It can help in career planning, in developing your management strategy, or just help you understand the playing field in business today. Author Alan Guarino explains the full gamut of cutting-edge talent management, from how to find it, develop it, deploy it and lead it, to his South Pole Theory of "hidden talent" talent as a solution for the shortage of critical talent in the business world of the 21st Century. The South Pole Theory explains that traditionally, corporations biased their talent searches towards those who performed at the top of their academic classes. Yet, some of the most successful executives and business leaders weren't good students themselves. Grades aren't the only predictor of success in the real business world. This book shares techniques for finding those determined, dedicated go-getters who fall through the cracks when we judge them solely on academics. To compete in business today, top companies need to cultivate every available source of talent. This book shows business leaders how to find and capitalize on this special pool of talent-- the future versions of people like Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinkos, Wayne Huizenga of Blockbuster Video, and many others. Alan Guarino (Marlboro, NY) is CEO and co-founder of the executive search firm Cornell International. His firm is now owned by Adecco, the largest recruiting company in the world.

The Talent Management Handbook explains how organizations can identify and get the most out of “high-potential people” by developing and promoting them to key positions. The book explains: 1. A system for integrating three human resources “building blocks”: organizational competencies, performance appraisal, and forecasting employee/manager potential 2. Six human resources conditions necessary for organization excellence 3. How to link your employee assessment process to career planning and development The Talent Management Handbook will help you design career plans that boost employee morale, as well as create and sustain excellence in your organization. It is full of simple, efficient, easy-to-follow methods for assessing, planning, and developing high-value people to meet your organization’s current and future needs. And it will help you combine your organization’s diverse human resources activities into a single, cogent system. Featuring best practices from leading companies as well as contributions from field experts who hold top positions in such leading HR consultancies as AON Consulting, The Hay Group, Hewitt Associates, Right Management Consulting. Sibson Consulting, and Towers Perrin, The Talent Management Handbook is an authoritative resource for creating and maintaining excellence in your organization through people management.

High-value talent management must be relevant to today's workplace Misplaced Talent takes a hard look at the cluttered field of Talent Management, and offers a clear guide to making better people decisions in any organization. Deliberately challenging practitioners to do more, this insightful discussion sorts through the tools and techniques developed over the last century to examine their true relevance to the modern workplace. You'll learn which activities show the greatest potential to improve the lives of employees and the organizations they work for, and identify which of your existing practices don't really add enough value to be worth the expenditure of time, money, and potentially lost talent. The author asks you to make up your own mind about which approaches work best for your own specific talent decisions, but provides the best theory and practice available today as a foundation upon which to formulate a more relevant strategy. In a world of big data, the potential to understand employees and react appropriately has never been greater. So why is Talent Management as an industry relying on outdated theory and practices? This book is a guide to bringing HR up to date, giving you the tools, techniques, and perspective you need to demonstrate more value to your organization. Adopt the tools and techniques most effective in today's workplace Identify and discard methods that don't add value to the organization Implement critical changes that can transform the HR function Make better people decisions based on psychology and research Fundamentally, not much has changed in what constitutes good people practice. Practitioners must demonstrate the value of Talent Management, but the solutions implemented often fall short of the rigor and discipline they deserve. Misplaced Talent provides the insight you need to refocus attention and engage your organization about the value of better people decisions.

The (Un)Common Sense of Management looks at learning and practicing management from a â€~holistic' perspective; attempting to combine the â€~hands-on' with the â€~minds-on'. Formal management training teaches us about tools, techniques, and models, but relegates skills, ingenuity, and wisdom to the background. Sanjay Tiwari's framework equips managers to combine the â€~intuitive' with the â€~structured' and helps them acquire the needed skills rather than just getting bogged down by knowledge acquisition. He makes management an individual art, a world of insights and intuition, a â€~sixth sense'. Key Features Redefines the learning of management as a set of basic human skills rather than as a complicated organizational process Takes a real world view of management rather than a purely academic one Provides common sense terms and concepts, graphical representations, and analogies and anecdotes to simplify and explain complex management terms This book provides the â€~big picture' and key rules of thumb for effective management.

Common sense is like great music, mesmerizing art or funny jokes: difficult to pinpoint but we all recognize it when we see it. In this book, Hans M Hirschi explores the concept of common sense, through philosophy, reflection, and practice. Using his thorough experience from business and management from all corners of the world, Hans demonstrates that “common sense” is not as common as you might think. What is regarded as common sense in Sweden isn’t necessarily true in China, Tunisia or Brazil. He uses clear examples to provide insight into cultural differences that affect the world of business as well as everyday life. This second edition, completely re-edited and with a new chapter on Talent Management, will help you use your common sense all over the world – in business and in life.