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Linking Learning to
Talent Management
Talent management strategies and systems can only go so far in assuring the readiness of the workforce to meet ever changing market needs. A strategy for learning must be linked to talent management to truly accelerate and transform organizational performance.
The Engagement/
Performance Equation
This Aberdeen Group study looks at 438 organizations to determine which strategies, tools and processes designed to improve engagement and performance are most effective. You'll also learn how to use them to increase employee retention, leadership bench strength, customer satisfaction and profitable growth.
Support Performance Management
with e-Learning
Performance management is one of the most important elements of a talent management strategy, but many organizations struggle to do it well. When performance management focuses primarily on annual employee performance appraisals, companies miss opportunities to help those employees improve their performance all other days of the year.
When handled this way, it's no wonder performance management is a dreaded interaction for managers and staff, but pushing this part of talent management to the side as a necessary evil can put your company at a competitive disadvantage.
Recent research from Bersin & Associates found that companies with strong, positive performance management processes outperformed their peers by 3 to 1. Similarly, The Aberdeen Group research shows that helping managers develop leadership, communication and people development skills led to higher levels of productivity and engagement.
How to Improve Your Performance Management Process
SkillSoft's learning resources are ideal for supporting performance management initiatives because they're scalable, consistent and self-paced. They're also the right length for busy schedules, respond to a variety of learning styles and allow employees to practice new and developing skills online with no fear of embarrassment.
In the meantime, here are three things you can to improve your company's performance management process:
Reduce performance appraisal stress. Help managers understand the high value of performance management and include skills like goal setting, listening and feedback in their learning programs (Click here to learn more).
Link performance management with learning programs. Self-paced online learning is a great way for employees to address performance shortcomings without ever having to leave their desks to help ensure competency-specific gaps are being addressed and tracked.
Turn your managers into coaches. Managers with good coaching skills don't just tell their employees what the problem is and how to solve it; they help employees reflect on problems and develop their own ways to address them; employees take greater responsibility for their own performance and relationships improve (Click here to learn more).
