The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

There were a lot of great blog posts this past week on the topics of leadership, talent management, and human resource management.  We'd like to point you to five posts that we consider to be the best of the best for the week of November 3rd to November 9th, 2008.

Brilliant Leadership: Why Training Isn't Working - The folks over at the Brilliant Leadership Blog report on a recent survey conducted by the World of Learning identifying seven reasons why training and development isn't being maximized within organizations.  Check out their post for a nice take on the survey's findings.

Seth Godin's Blog: The 90/10 Rule of Marketing a Job - Seth offers some great insight on hiring the best talent for the job and explains why your organization needs to be committed to marketing its positions open to hire.

Totally Consumed HR: Do Your Employees Trust HR? - Do team members in your organization suddenly get quiet when a member of HR walks into the room?  If someone in your organization heard that HR wanted to speak with them, would they become naturally suspicious of the reasons?  HR blogger extraordinaire Totally Consumed takes a look at what HR can do to build trust with others in their organizations and move from being seen as hall monitors to respected business colleagues.

Kris Dunn, The HR Capitalist: Kill the Performance Review...But Only if Every Manager you Have can Coach - Every year it seems there is a cry for the death of the performance annual review.  The reasons for this are many and varied, and some are even somewhat convincing.  Kris Dunn takes a great look at this movement for the death of the performance review and points out that such an action could only be possible if every manager in your organization can act as an effective coach.

Wally Bock, Three Star Leadership: The Workplace of the Future - Wally takes an interesting look into the workplace of the future and poses three thought provoking questions.