Top Talent Blog

Five Tell-tale Signs of Ineffective Managers/Team Leaders

from the Turning Good People Into Top Talent blog series By Bob Moore, CMC, Managing Principal, Talent Management Institute There is a direct relationship between productivity, turnover, employee engagement and management effectiveness.  According to Jim Clifton, Chairman of the Gallup Organization, only one in ten managers has the natural skill and capability to lead a […]

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What Really is Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset?

from the Turning Good People Into Top Talent blog series By Bob Moore, CMC, Managing Principal, Talent Management Institute If you answered, “People” you are partially correct.  What?  You say.  Everybody knows or at least most executives claim that people are their company’s most valuable asset.  I think the most accurate answer is the undeveloped […]

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What Do Leading Talent Management Practices Have in Common?

from the Turning Good People Into Top Talent blog series By Bob Moore, CMC, Managing Principal, Talent Management Institute If you answered, “Technology,” you are correct.  However, an article in the August 2015 issue of Talent Management Magazine validated my concerns.  True technology requires different thinking which reminded me of a famous quote.  Albert Einstein […]

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Are You Working Too Hard at Employee Engagement?

from the Turning Good People Into Top Talent blog series By Bob Moore, CMC, Managing Principal, Talent Management Institute Many companies have elaborate programs focused on improving levels of employee engagement.  Countless surveys indicate little or no noticeable improvement in the dismal level of employee disengagement—still averaging around 70% nationally in the U.S. It has […]

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It is Time to Ditch Performance Appraisals

It is Time to Ditch Performance Appraisals from the Turning Good People Into Top Talent blog series By Bob Moore, CMC, Managing Principal, Talent Management Institute Yes, it is true that Accenture will be ditching its annual appraisal of its 330,000 staff following Deloitte and the other “big four” consultancies that have opted for more […]

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