The latest thinking on how to develop, engage and retain your talent

It’s no secret at this point that top-performing organizations have largely adopted ongoing, in-the-moment performance management in the place of infrequent appraisals. And why wouldn’t they? That ongoing communication is crucial to ensuring that people are always working towards what’s beneficial to the business, staying engaged with their work, keeping managers in-the-know and so much more.

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People spend considerably more time with peers than they do with their manager or executives, and these peers have a dramatic effect on performance. So perhaps it’s time to actively cultivate and leverage the power of peer feedback as a tool to drive learning, behavior change and results.

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You have likely over-thought learning and development, HR, or leadership solutions at work as well. The truth is many times the best solutions are the simple ones staring us directly in the eye. The solution is so close to us, we simply can’t see it. Managers think the 1-on-1 is a simple “how you doing?” with the employee. Both they couldn’t be more wrong.

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An organization like Vulcan Inc. requires a well-driven people strategy – one that involves finding and developing people for a wide variety of disciplines, projects and problems. In this Q&A post, Vulcan CHRO Tim Mulligan shares how a strong talent development strategy aligned to Vulcan’s culture and business priorities helps bolster the employee experience and drive increased performance.

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Organizations are now facing a new-world training dilemma: Should they buy their training content or build it in-house? Saba partner OpenSesame and L&D thought leader Donald H. Taylor created a new white paper addressing the new training challenges organizations face today. Discover some key insights and strategies that will help you decide the next steps in your people’s L&D journey.

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With the acquisition of Lumesse, Saba is now a talent management powerhouse with new global size and scale – and with a completely new vision for talent. In this post, Saba CEO Phil Saunders shares what this opportunity means and how the new Saba intends to transform the talent experience.

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This isn’t a blog about the semantics of Halloween slogans. This is a blog about talent development! And this … this is a cheap attempt at making a link between a holiday and what we love to talk about, as blogs are wont to do. And how are we going to do that? Well, we’re going to provide you with some tricks to up your talent development game! And what do those tricks come with? Treats!

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Tying learning directly to the goals that employees are pursuing makes is easy find connections between learning efforts and what moves the business forward, and can help your people exceed expectations and meet their full potential.

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It might be tempting to believe that employees who are in the later stages of their career are ready to take it easy. But this vision simply isn’t true for motivated and energetic managers. Late-career managers should have a full plate of activities that benefit both themselves and the organization. So the question becomes, “What are those activities?”

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