The New York Yankees! Rafael Nadal! Tiger Woods! Lionel Messi! Itzhak Perlman! Ernest Hemingway! What does this list have in common? We’ll get back to that later. The question I have for you is simple. Are you at the top of your game in your “sport”….meaning are you the Tiger Woods of Sourcing/Supply Chain?? Can you take over a game like Messi from Barca and re-define the way the game is played? Can you play the violin like Perlman?
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Everything. With this football season coming to an end and the Super Bowl only a little over a week away, I decided to use this blog post to talk about something that stood out to me this season and how it applies to hiring. Being a diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fan I couldn’t help but be [...]
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Every year we know it is coming and every year we dread it – the Performance Evaluation. We all know that it is going to go smoothly for some and not so smoothly for others. So how do you address Performance Evaluation in your Competency Based Talent Management (CBTM) system? Anne Kohler has some insights.
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