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Should you include freelancers in your talent development program?

Fast Company The Future of Work

The “2018 Future Workforce” report from freelancing website Upwork, released in February, found that 59% of hiring managers are using flexible talent–freelancers, temporary, and agency workers–which is more than double the 2017 percentage (24%). Winning the Freelance Talent Wars.

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Here's How HR Leaders Are Addressing Talent Development During a Federal Hiring Freeze

Cornerstone On Demand

With fewer opportunities to bring in new talent, departments are paying special attention to retaining high performers and developing current employees to ensure their organizations continue to succeed and thrive. Big data can illuminate trends and provide insight that HR leaders may be missing in their own observations.

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Growing Talent Development Firms: Industry Disruption, Interruption, and Corruption

ATD Human Capital

In the talent development industry, I see three major drivers that have the potential to be disrupted: the content presented, the delivery by which it is presented, and the instruction used to deliver it. They end up providing inadequate solutions that fail to achieve needed results in skill development and performance improvement.

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Growing Talent Development Firms: Grow or Die?

ATD Human Capital

As ATD prepares to publish my new book, The Complete Guide to Building and Growing a Talent Development Firm , I thought a good final blog post, at least for now, should focus on the alternative to growth. But to progress, keep pace, and jump over any resource barriers, something has to break.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Blue Equity Announces The Acquisition Of Napoli Management Group to expand its Platform in the Representation, Talent and Entertainment Businesses. Happy Friday.

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How to be a Good Internal Consultant

Workplace Psychology

project management, quality management, human resources, information technology, training & development, finance, supply chain management, process improvement, etc.). “Interpersonal savvy helps you read and address relationships appropriately and at the right time” (Scisco, Biech, & Hallenbeck, 2017, p.

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7 Human Resources Trends to Watch for in 2017

Effortless HR

How will the role of human resources change or evolve in 2017? Every year, the role of human resources departments around the globe changes slightly. With 2017 upon us at last, let’s take a look at a few of the predicted human resources trends for the New Year. Employee reviews will become more instantaneous.