HR Carnival: End of April Edition

The folks at Talent Junction hosted the latest version of the HR Carnival. There is some great reading in this one! Here are some samples:

• For The Survival of HR: Drucker Lesson of the Day.
• How To Fix The HR Profession
• 6 Reasons Why Talent Management is a Strategic Imperative
• Six Signs You Have An HR Pirate
• Can Common Sense be Learned?
• Be fluid in your thinking, but concrete in your communication
• Getting the Performance Appraisal Right
• 5 ways to Exit When Your Boss is Abusive
• How To Fix The HR Profession
• 5 benefits of taking a vacation

And much more. So buy your TICKET TO THE CARNIVAL HERE and head to the midway of great reading.

And stay tuned. The next HR Carnival on May 12th will be hosted right here at HR Observations!

HR Carnival: Some of the Best in HR Reading

Crapola (click on the link for a def.)... I missed it again! I just need to get better organized. Ben Eubanks was the host this time around over at Upstart HR. He published 25 Pieces of HR Awesomeness. That is this months HR Carnival, which now has its own logo. --------->

I promise to have a post in the next one which will appear just after Thanksgiving. In the meantime, as a carny might say... " right here, right here. Get yer' HR edumacation right here. 25 great posts for only a dollar. In fact they are free!"

Top 25 Talent Management Blogs: We Made It A Second Time

The list of the Top 25 Talent Managment Blogs has been posted at Fistful Of Talent. If you are looking for some of the best blogs in HR this is were you will find them.

AND, I am very proud to say that HR Observations was on the list tied at 15th! Thanks!

I hope you keep reading, commenting and connecting us to other readers.

Talent Management: Just What Does It Mean?

The other day I posed this question to a group of HR people: "Is there a consistent definition of the term TALENT MANAGEMENT?" The responses I got pretty much matched my thought. There is not a consistent definition. And I think this is confusing to HR folks and upper management. And thus things don't get done. "Talent" (whatever that means) does not get managed. Upper management gets frustrated with HR, HR gets frustrated with HR, and confusion reigns. As I was searching for a definition Cathy Martin, author of Find Your Metrics That Matter, sent me a link to the following article.

Mary Ann Downey, of IC4P, wrote an article entitled Talent Management by any Other Name... I don't think I could be anymore articulate than she was in this post. So I refer her to you and maybe she can clear it up.

Also along those lines, here is another article called Kill the 'HR Speak' by John Sullivan in Workforce. Click on the title to read that article. Talent Management is part of HR speak.