Talent Management - It's About the People

Talent management is, at it's simplest, anticipating the needs for talent (hard to fill positions or those crucial to the organization) and setting out a plan to meet those needs. Managing talent is crucial to maintain innovation and productivity.Talent management is one of the toughest challenges leaders face - and it's made even tougher in today's uncertain environment.

Corporations, large and small, have eliminated thousands of positions. Each of us has either more than likely been in an organization that eliminated positions, know someone how has lost a position or thinks this may still happen to them, a friend, or a family member.

Talent management - it's all about people. It's all about THE people and having people in your organization that feel valued, amongst all else, is the heart of retention strategies.

I am moderating a panel on "Setting the Organizational Pace through Employee Engagement" at the 12th Annual Talent Management Summit today. I have a wonderful panel and we are going to offer the audience a glimpse inside their organizations. We'll discuss the business issues they are facing, what they are doing to inspire confidence in their organization's leadership, and how they are inspiring employees in this down economy. Because these are businesses after all, we'll also talk about the tools they are developing or using to drive productivity.

You have to know, my biggest fear is running out of questions. I opened the floor for talent management questions here and on Twitter. I'd like to thanks Steve Boese and Chris Ponder for their questions. 

I am psyched! Not just about my panel but get this, after my panel, I get to sit on a panel moderated by the HR Bartender herself and watch Jason Seiden in action the next day!

So, turn your cell phones off, keep the back channel positive and wish me luck!

Comments

[Trish]

Lisa, I SO wish I could be there with you today. Not only would it be fantastic to be with you personally, I think your topic sounds very interesting. I hope you write about how it turns out because employee engagement is something that is important but will be challenging for us to maintain during these economic times. Any lessons learned at the Talent Mgt. Summit would be welcomed by all of us.

And, as if things could not be better, you get to hang with HR Bartender AND Seiden???? My friend, your week will rock! Sharlyn is always someone to learn from and Seiden, well, to me he is just brilliant!
Trish

[Young HR Manager]

Hello Lisa,
I have been following postings in your blog for a while. I am particularly interested in topics like Talent Management that you have been dealing with. I would have liked to participate in the 12th Annual Talent Management Summit. Could you please share here some more ideas from that summit? I have been writing on Talent Management here:
http://www.younghrmanager.com/talent-management.
That panel on "Setting the Organizational Pace through Employee Engagement" must have been interesting. Is there anything you could post here related to what was discussed?
Thank you for all the info you share.

[Lisa Rosendahl]

Unfortunately, the video link is not longer available but the session focused on what companies were doing to build employee committment and engagement through community activity, keeping leadership visible and accessible to all levels of the organization and using technology to better manage and communication performance expectations. The 2010 summit has passed but stay in contact with the summit to get in on the 14th Annual http://www.talentmanagementevent.com/Event.aspx?id=318006

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