Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent
- 5h 36m
- Louis Carter (eds), Marshall Goldsmith
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2010
Best Practices in Talent Management offers a hands-on resource, which contains the most current and important information on how to attract, retain, and motivate top talent within any organization.
Designed to meet the needs of today's organizations, this handbook is filled with practical advice on how to implement employee and customer-centered programs that emphasize consensus building; self, group, organizational, and one-on-one awareness and effective communication; clear connections to overall business objectives; and quantifiable business results.
With lessons from companies that are widely recognized as among the best in organization change and leadership development, the book is offers invaluable lessons for succeeding during challenging times. As best practice organizational champions, these companies share many similar attributes including openness to learning and collaboration, humility, innovation and creativity, integrity, a high regard for people's needs and perspectives, and a passion for change. And all these outstanding organizations have invested in human capital—the most important asset inside of organizations today.
Best Practices in Talent Management offers lessons from the world's best organizations in various industries and sizes, and shows how to identify the key elements of leading successful, results-driven talent management; access the tools, models, instruments, and strategies for leading talent management; apply practical "how-to" approaches to diagnosing, assessing, designing, implementing, coaching, following-up on, and evaluating talent management; and measure critical success factors and critical failure factors of a program.
No matter what the size or mission of your organization, Best Practices in Talent Management will be your guide for diagnosing, assessing, designing, implementing, coaching, and evaluating a winning team of talent.
About the Editors
Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D., is one of a select few advisors who have been asked to work with over 120 major CEOs and their management teams. A prolific author, his book What Got You Here Won't Get You There was ranked as the #1 best-selling business book by the The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. For ten years, he served as a member of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation.
Louis Carter is the Founder and CEO of the Best Practice Institute, and a world-renown leadership and organization change advisor. He is the author of over nine books on best practices including Change Champion's Fieldguide and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Change.
In this Book
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Avon Products, Inc.
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Bank Of America
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Corning Incorporated
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Customer an Enterprise Services (CES) Division of a Fortune 100 Organization
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Ecolab, Inc.
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Ge Money Americas
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Internal Revenue Service
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Kaiser Permanente Colorado Region
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McDonald's
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Microsoft Corporation
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Murray & Roberts Limited
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Porter Novelli
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Southern Company
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Whirlpool Corporation
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