I am a big fan of Marc Effron’s book One Page Talent Management.  His basic premise is that Optimal or Best Practice talent management processes are USELESS if they are not used – simple premise, right?  Short, straightforward, practical tools aligned with your business environment will yield the best results for your company.  He challenges HR professionals to always ask the question – Is the additional value (of the change, improvement, addition I am making) equal to or greater than the added complexity?    Only by being experts in our HR science and our businesses can we really answer that question.

So…do you need to ask 150 questions on that employee satisfaction survey or will 15 really give you some actionable data?  Do you need 12 core competencies, or will 5 best articulate what your organization is best at?  Is a 10 page performance evaluation form something that associates can recall and take action on, or would a 1-2 page streamlined version work better?

…simplify and get talent management practices used.

Alison Miller

Titan Group LLC

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