Sirona Says

If you try to do it through HR it will be a disaster!

Following on from my last post on Talent Management  it seems that there is further confusion regarding this human capital subject. Does the responsibility for talent management sit with HR or line managers?

The CIPD VP Tim Miller has his opinion, and that it is that the responsibility lies with line managers. His reasoning? - "If you try to do it through HR it will be a disaster!" Do you think he has had some bad experiences by any chance? 

He does qualify this further though by adding, "One thing we find is that if you have not got great managers, you are not going to develop talent properly. If you get your management sorted out everything else will follow. If managers are not doing what they are paid to do - get rid of them"  But how many companies will be that brave when they are finding good people hard to come by?

He really hits the nail on the head with his summation, which I think is a very astute comment, "Talented people don't want to work for donkeys. They want to work for people who want to develop them."  Too true!

Can you define Talent Management? - these HR specialists had trouble!

Talent Management - also now being called Human Capital Management -  is now a well used phrase within both HR and business, but can you define what it is? The actions of talent management are easy to define - sourcing, attracting, selecting, training, developing, retaining, promoting. But trying to get a defined statement can be difficult when it means many different things to many people.

To highlight how difficult this can be, Personnel Today put this question to six HR specialists, who you would expect to know how to define talent management........maybe the lack of defined answers won't surprise you!

Seth Godin speaks.......listen HR

The fantastic author and 'thought guru', Seth Godin, is as usual being thought provoking, but this time with regards to the world of HR. His message is simple, forget calling it the Human Resources Department all together and just call it the Talent Department! 

Sell it, market it or promote it, but make sure you do something to change people's perceptions of what human resources has become. This post on marketing your HR better is well worth reading, as is his excellent blog.