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Talent Management Challenges in 2011

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In a recent poll of 1,400 workers Right Management found that 84% plan to look for a new job in 2011. Moreover, specialized training may be needed for many new virtual employees. Matthews cited four critical trends that will affect talent management: Talent will look elsewhere for opportunities.

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Is Your Unemployed Skill Obsolete?

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Take some self-assessments to determine whether you need training in the new field. Source: The New York Times, June 19, 2011. Join user or industry groups in that field and connect with professionals there and on LinkedIn. Please, please, please don't just go ahead and send out your resume!

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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

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Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., By 2002, when I began advertising with Google, the company had become very profitable, thanks to a novel program called AdWords, in which advertisers bid to display their ads whenever the user searches for keywords. Google Inc.

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Google's Project Oxygen

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The final step was to code and synthesize all those results — more than 400 pages of interview notes — and then they spent much of last year rolling out the results to employees and incorporating them into various training programs. Source: The New York Times, March 13, 2011.

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Retention and Development of Great Talent

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They provide training that specifically addresses how to manage and function effectively in their matrix. They bring together training with organization design, and apply an awareness of how the two interact.” . Kates says. Most leaders agree that great talent can overcome poor organization.

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Mars Incorporated: A Sweet Place to Work

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According to a regulatory filing for 2011 in the State of Delaware, where Mars is incorporated, there are six members, all grandchildren or great-grandchildren of Frank Mars. Employees have autonomy to experiment with ideas and management has the patience to train. It doesn't work that way elsewhere.

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Self-Knowledge Through Self-Assessments

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The Myers-Briggs was developed in the 1940s by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katherine Cook Briggs, who despite little advanced training in psychology, immersed themselves in the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung and designed the questionnaire based on Jung's personality types. Source: The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2011.