What Will Be the Biggest Talent Management Challenge of 2010?
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What’s the Biggest Talent Management Challenge In 2010?
Hey folks, Jim Jacobus here with Champion Education Resources in Houston, Texas. I was just on the TTI Value Added LinkedIn group and I was reading some of the questions there and particularly liked the question that Ashley Bowers asked about what’s going to be the biggest talent management challenge in 2010? And I thought I would respond to it by shooting a quick little video here.
There are a lot of great responses on there and I couldn’t agree more with people that retention’s going to be a big issue when everything in the job market starts loosening up. People who’ve stayed put because they had a job are going to start moving around. I also agree with the viewpoint that it’s going to be a challenge for companies to rebuild trust with employees. Training, I think, is going to be huge! Now is the time for companies to be training in order to take advantage when things do crank back up … to have their people with momentum prepared for the turnaround which I believe is coming this year.
But, I would like to flip the coin a little bit. Maybe somebody else has said it, but my personal point of view is I’m always looking at what opportunity is this going to provide for us. I think it does provide a lot of opportunity on the retention side, but here’s what I think about and here’s what our clients are talking about … that once everything does start breaking loose and everybody starts leaving, well, they’re going to go somewhere. Right? They’re going to wind up on the doorstep of my clients and your clients who are going to try to determine who to hire when all of these people start moving around.
One of my clients asked me the other day how am I going to know who the rats are? There are going to be a lot of bad employees leaving too, taking advantage of this opportunity with a lot of sour grapes! There will be a bunch of rats out there that are going to be leaving their current employer and trying to find a better place, a new place to be a bad employee.
And how do you know the difference between the rats and the eagles? So, bottom line, I think our ability to help clients predict performance, assess folks, do comparative analysis, benchmarking, I think that’s going to be needed more than anything and more than ever before right! With all the people changing seats, it’s going to be important for our clients out there to know who are the good guys and who are not.
We’re already working with clients to determine what the answers to that question. I think that’s going to be the biggest talent management challenge that we face or that our clients are going to face coming up this year! We want to position ourselves to help them be prepared for that so that they can make the right decision on all the people that are moving around and coming their way in order to hire the eagles, instead of ending up with a bunch of rats.
You guys have a great day. If you have any questions or if I can help you, don’t hesitate to contact me. You’ll see all our information down there on the blog. Hope you’re having a great day and we’ll see you at the TTI Winner’s Conference here in just a couple days. Take care, folks.
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