Recommended Resource – Talent Management Magazine

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Talent Management Magazine
www.talentmgt.com

About the Reference

StrategyDriven contributors find Talent Management Magazine to be an invaluable source of information on effective talent management practices. Each month, Talent Management Magazine provides readers with the talent acquisition, management, and retention insights of successful executives and managers.

Talent Management Magazine is supported by an accompanying website (www.talentmgt.com). This website contains numerous articles and resources covering topics such as:

  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Compensation and Benefits
  • Performance Management
  • Learning and Development
  • Succession Planning

Benefits of Using this Reference

Effective acquisition, management, and retention of talent is a critical success factor shared by all organizations. In today’s rapidly changing, hyper competitive marketplace, the loss or churn of key personnel resources can instantly cripple any business attempting to remain competitive.

Talent management is no longer the sole responsibility of the Human Resources Department. The expanding war for talent, brought on by increasing demand for knowledgeable, skilled personnel and a contracting labor pool, demands that executives and managers throughout the organization work together to create a work environment that attracts, retains, and motivates talented individuals.

The practical methods and actions presented in Talent Management Magazine can be implemented immediately to improve an organization’s talent management effectiveness. Additionally, Talent Management Magazine’s recommendations embody StrategyDriven ‘s organizational accountability and alignment philosophies; making it a StrategyDriven recommended read.

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Recommended Resource – The Welch Way

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The Welch Way
a weekly BusinessWeek column and podcast
by Jack and Suzy Welch

About the Reference

The Welch Way is a weekly BusinessWeek column and podcast authored by former GE CEO Jack Welch and his wife, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review, Suzy Welch. These articles cover a wide range of business and career topics offering readers the insights of one of America’s most respected Chief Executives.

Benefits of Using this Reference

Mr. and Mrs. Welch have both achieved unparalleled personal and business success and share their life’s lessons in an actionable way each week within their column. StrategyDriven contributors find great value in The Welch Way not only because it contains step-by-step methods to deal with today’s business and career challenges but because the topics addressed often focus on those areas important to organization’s aspiring to become more strategy driven.

Many of the best practice recommendations found on the StrategyDriven website compliment the actions prescribed in The Welch Way, making this column a StrategyDriven recommended read.

Recommended Resource – One Foot Out The Door

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One Foot Out the Door: How to Combat the Psychological Recession That’s Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business
by Judith M. Bardwick, Ph.D.

About the Reference

One Foot Out the Door: How to Combat the Psychological Recession That’s Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business by Dr. Judith M. Bardwick examines the changing employment relationship between American businesses and their workforces and the impact these changes have had on employee engagement and retention. Dr. Bardwick illustrates with hard numbers how employees, once accustomed to high job security, have entered into “a psychological recession” because of the employment uncertainty associated with today’s frequent layoffs, downsizing, rightsizing, and outsourcing. She concludes her work with practical strategies for enhancing employee engagement; thereby increasing job performance and retention.

Benefits of Using this Reference

Success in today’s rapidly evolving business environment requires the full engagement of employees’ knowledge, skills, and experiences focused on the achievement of mission goals. As highlighted by Dr. Bardwick, the continuous reengineering of today’s businesses places a strain on this engagement; one that must be overcome by executives and managers.

StrategyDriven contributors believe accountable, diverse, and inclusive organizations can overcome the “psychological recession” illustrated in One Foot Out the Door and that executives and managers implementing Dr. Bardwick’s recommendations will be better able to fully engage their employees by making them feel that they and their work are valued and significantly contribute to the organization’s success.

Many of the best practice recommendations found on the StrategyDriven website compliment the actions prescribed by Dr. Bardwick in One Foot Out the Door, making this book a StrategyDriven recommended read.

Additional Resources

Interviews with Dr. Bardwick regarding One Foot Out the Door can be enjoyed from the following two websites:

Recommended Resource – University of Houston’s Diversity Management Certificate Course

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Diversity Management Certificate Course
Craig B. Clayton, Sr. PhD
Director and Diversity Strategist
Bauer College of Business
University of Houston

Website Address: www.bauer.uh.edu/degrees-programs/certificates/diversity-management.asp

About the Reference

The Diversity Management Certificate Course provides participants with the tools they need to identify and communicate the business value of a diverse and inclusive work environment. Topical areas covered by the Diversity Management Certificate Course include:

  • Strategic Planning: presents methods for developing the business case for diversity and inclusion relating the impacts of having/not having an inclusive environment to the ‘bottom line.’ Includes training for communicating the business case to executives and board members
  • Human Resources: examines organizational behaviors and biases and how these impact the selection, promotion, and rating processes. Ties these behaviors and the resulting outcomes to the ability of an organization to attract, retain, and motivate diverse talent
  • Training: describes the various diversity and inclusion training types, such as awareness and skills training, and the benefits and challenges of each
  • Marketing and Sales: illustrates the impact of diversity and inclusion on an organization’s ability to market and sell its products and services to an increasingly diverse marketplace. Highlights methods by which affinity groups have and can help significantly improve an organization’s public image and open up markets; all of which increase sales and enhance the ‘bottom line’
  • Procurement: discusses diversity and inclusion of suppliers/vendors and the impact on the organization’s culture and its ability to market products and services to other organizations
  • Production (operations and maintenance): explores the impacts of engaging versus disenfranchising members of the workforce on production. Translates this impact, along with the impacts of undesired attrition, into ‘bottom line’ results

Benefits of Using this Reference

Significant, irreversible forces are flattening our world; bringing all people closer together in ways previously unimaginable. Today’s business environment offers unparalleled opportunities to richly combine the talents of the increasingly diverse workforce for the benefit of increasingly diverse clients if leaders can motivate and inspire each member of our team to contribute the fullest measure of his/her knowledge, skill, and experience to the achievement of mission goals. This level of engagement, however, only exists in accountable, diverse, and inclusive organizations.

While many individuals believe diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do, the Diversity Management Certificate Course helps these leaders express both their convictions and the business value of a diverse and inclusive work environment. By communicating the business value, these leaders earn the support of previously undecided executives and managers who now recognize the untapped value potential diversity and inclusion offers. Having garnered the critical mass of support, the organization can move toward increased accountability, diversity, and inclusion to the benefit of all.

By definition, strategy driven organizations are accountable, acting consequentially to promote the timely accomplishment of the organization’s mission, which subsequently enhances value creation. StrategyDriven Contributors believe accountable organizations will naturally be diverse and inclusive or becoming more so. The tools and techniques taught in the Diversity Management Certificate Course quantitatively illustrate this value relationship making this course a StrategyDriven recommended resource.

Recommended Resource – The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

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The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman

About the Reference

The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman examines the social, political, and technological forces that are bringing the peoples of our world closer together. Within its pages, Mr. Friedman illustrates how the flattening of the world is creating an increasingly interconnected business environment where businesses large and small as well as knowledge workers from the United States to India will compete in the global marketplace.

Benefits of Using this Reference

Globalization of the marketplace presents new opportunities and new challenges to businesses of all sizes and people of all countries. As the speed of communication and transportation increases, so does the ability of a company or a person to deliver products and services anywhere in the world. With billions of highly educated and motivated people entering the marketplace from India and China, competition is increasing exponentially.

While many of us sensed the flattening of the world, The World Is Flat expertly illustrates what and how these forces are shaping our environment. StrategyDriven contributors believe executives and managers armed with this insight will be better able to take advantage of existing flat world opportunities and envision and leverage future changes; enabling their organizations to remain competitive in the ever flattening world.