Talent management

As the world's overall population skews older, the workforce is aging as well, with more older adults working well beyond what used to be considered the...

Leaders must leverage and develop diverse talent in 2014.

People with certain cognitive conditions may not do well in job interviews-but they may have exactly the talents you need for an open position in your...

What do the career prospects of female scientists, the general chaos of the mid-career managers’ life, the failure to adequately develop new cadres of leaders internally, and escalating CEO compensation have in common? Let me suggest that these are interrelated phenomena whose connections with one another may be poorly understood. Let’s start with female scientists. […]

Even walking to and from meetings together can build rapport.

Just one month after Hewlett Packard ousted Mark Hurd for expense report improprieties in his relationship with a female company contractor, the ex-CEO...

As you measure people, be sure to measure their context, too.

To retain high-potential employees, the conventional wisdom is deceptively simple: Identify, develop, and nurture them. By paying special attention to the very best people, they will stay with the firm and eventually emerge as key leaders. But translating this into action is much more difficult. As the former head of executive development at GE used […]

New research shows how to attract and retain the best employees in developing economies.

Start by identifying the gaps you’ll need to fill tomorrow.

How can a person who seems so qualified for a position fail miserably in it? How can someone who clearly lacks relevant skills and experience succeed?...

Despite heavy investments to acquire talented data scientists and take advantage of the analytics boom, many companies have been disappointed in the results....

If your policies don’t accommodate their needs, they’ll go elsewhere.

Every so often, writers click with their audience in ways they never expect–and learn something important in the process. I’ve had that experience in the last week, when my most recent “Game Changer” post spread across the media landscape like wildfire, generating all sorts of attention on the Internet, landing on a national radio program, […]

To recruit the best, offer more than a job.

You won't win the race until you learn to pace yourself.

Despite the high rate of churn in the labor market today, many companies pay scant attention to offboarding employees. That's a mistake, say the authors,...

Attracting and retaining top talent are perennial concerns among managers, in good times and in bad. With salaries frozen even as the scope of work expands,...

by Paul Michelman

Human resources departments develop programs and policies that contribute to organizational culture, but managers like you are the single biggest influence...