At The Mpower Group we are strong proponents of Competency Based Talent Management. One of the greatest assets most organizations have is their talent, yet few companies make the investment in that asset relative to other investments. A large part of our consulting practice in…
My original title was going to be ”Just Hire Skirts” but I was told in no uncertain terms that some might find that offensive, regardless of my message 🙂 . There is the famous story of Michael Jordan never winning a championship till the 1991…
While there are a number of reasons, the biggest seems to be that not going to college is considered a failure while the same is not true in Germany. Called the TVET, Germany has had an apprenticeship program in place that encourages students to…
Just about every functional organization (e.g. IT, HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Marketing, etc.) can be measured against a maturity model. The use of a maturity model allows an organization to have its processes and practices assessed against a set of external benchmarks, best practices or…
I’m sure most of you have believed at least one of the above but according to recent research ALL of them might be false. People Analytics or applying Big Data to Talent Management may be fundamentally changing how employees are selected and managed. It is allowing companies to use predictive analysis on not just personality tests but biometrics and personal data that we all leave everywhere.
Did you know that nationwide we have over 4 million unfilled job openings but 10 million people are unemployed; this is according to U.S. Labor Department statistics. On the weekend edition of NPR last week, they ran a story “What Germans Know that Could Help…