Talent management is back

Towards the end of last year, I noticed talent management returning to the chat rooms, and journals, and wow! – come January it is back with a vengeance, as the top priority for businesses.   My first talent management sighting came on 9 January, from the...

There is such a thing as too much feedback

Welcome to our first newsletter of 2018. I hope the year has got off to a good start for you. I signed off in December with the cryptic comment that there is ‘such a thing as too much feedback.” This comment was prompted by a number of articles extolling...

The big NO NOs of the annual review

Last week, I discussed the hole that is left by abandoning the annual performance review. This week, let’s look at the parts of the review process that do indeed need to be dropped: in my view these are, forced-ranking, annual goals, review of competencies and...

Janice Caplan at the University of Tartu

I have just returned from a fantastic experience presenting my talent management methodology and ideas at a conference at the University of Tartu in Estonia. I was so inspired by how a university in a country of just 1.3 million inhabitants transformed itself...