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Making it Work

Marc Effron's column in Talent Management magazine

A More Effective 360: Most 360s don't deliver the expected results because they're not designed to. Learn the few key elements that create a truly powerful 360 process.
Start with the Science: Many of the popular talent management concepts have little if any science to back their claims. What's proven to be true.
Making Competencies Work: Competency models get the theory correct (behaviors are important) but their complexity confuses managers and sub-optimizes their potential impact. Learn how to create a behavioral model that really works.
Performance Management that Drives Results: The most reviled process in talent management, performance management can drive significant revenue and profit increases if simply designed and executed.
Gaining CEO Support: Here’s how to convince the reluctant CEO to make the appropriate investment in talent management
Predicting Success in Talent Reviews:An effective talent review process should predict how far and how fast a leader can move.

HR Examiner

Observations on current HR challenges

Enough Excuses: Build the Right Capabilities: A challenge to theHR and talent profession to increase their skills to meet their company's changing needs.
The Unimportance of Being Earnest: Why HR needs to focus on execution, not winning the hearts of every manager.
Occupy HR Technology: The protest movement turns its attention to the 1% in talent management technology.

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