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Cafe Classic: Want a Promotion? Start Reading Your Annual Report

Compensation Cafe

Can't get your leaders to think about talent management or even HR strategy? If the company's heading in X direction, managers need to be equipped to support that strategy. Margaret O'Hanlon brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café.

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Cafe Classic: Rethinking Compensation Training

Compensation Cafe

In our world of performance management and compensation, each department or division has different employee performance and talent management demands. After all, you don't talk with research scientists about compensation the same way that you talk with business operations managers.

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CEOs Still Cool to HR as Strategic Partner

Compensation Cafe

Apparently we are neither available enough nor able to clearly and crisply deliver the talent management value that the CEO is expecting. Since this ability is not common in HR staffers, anyone who shows promise should be encouraged, trained and optimally staffed to assignments where their ability to provide insight can be developed.

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Cafe Classic: Want a Promotion? Start Reading Your Annual Report

Compensation Cafe

Can't get your leaders to think about talent management or even HR strategy? If the company's heading in X direction, managers need to be equipped to support that strategy. On the other hand, if you're conversant with the annual report, odds are you're earning management trust and attention for your insights.

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How to Improve Your Compensation Communications

Compensation Cafe

To illustrate, here's one of the message statements for a new Career Development program that's being introduced, in part, to put the culture of the company into action: 'We are embedding Talent Management practices more fully at all levels of the company so we share a clarity of purpose worldwide that supports our "Smart Growth" initiative.'

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Here's How HR Can Influence Your Company's Bottom Line

Compensation Cafe

Just last month, McKinsey & Company, worldwide consulting firm and business strategy guru of record for executives, published the results of a study that point out how to support measurably better business performance through specific talent management practices. Employees understand their organization's overall strategy.

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Performance Management 2017: Companies Must Become Agile

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad , the world’s leader in Talent Activation, which transforms traditional talent management and employee engagement technology into a continuum of experiences for activating employees along their journeys—from start to finish. Training at every level.