Welcome back from the long holiday weekend - I hope yours was a great one! Here are five blog posts to help get your week off to a great start!
Michael McKinney, Leadership Now: Do the Leaders Within Your Organization Have the Skills They Need to be Successful in the Future - Michael reports on a recent Center for Creative Leadership survey of 2,200 leaders that identifies 7 critical leadership qualities for today and the future. Interestingly, Michael finds that there may be a dangerous gap between the skills our leaders possess today and the ones necessary for successfully leading into the future. Check it out to see where your team stands.
Jon Ingham's Strategic HCM Blog: Social Media in HR Training - Ever considered hosting a training session in your organization to increase the connectivity of your HR team? If so, Jon has an excellent post up with an outline of what such a training session might look like.
Ann Bares, Compensation Force: 2010 Salary Increase Plans Holding (Relatively) Firm - Ann shares revised survey results from Hewitt Associates on what organizations are forecasting in the way of salary increases in 2010. There may be some signs of economic encouragement as salary expectations for 2010 are largely unchanged from the beginning of the year and far fewer organizations are planning salary freezes than were a year ago.
Ryan Healy, Employee Evolution: Use Social Media to Make Every Employee a Recruiter - Did you know that you're organization is chocked full of recruiters - regardless of what their actual job descriptions or titles may say? Ryan reminds us that within the organizational ranks are hundreds and thousands of qualified recruiting connections just waiting to be made with today's social media tools.
Alison Green (AKA Ask a Manager), US News & World Report: Why Performance Reviews Deserve a Better Rap - Performance reviews have taken a lot of flak in recent years. Some pundits and bloggers have even cried for the death of the performance evaluation as a talent management tool. The truth is that these reviews are still valuable tools, but are seldomly used correctly. Alison shares her views on why performance appraisals deserve a better rap.
