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Monday, 25 March 2013

#E20S Social Talent Management

Screen Shot 2013-03-22 at 16.46.49.png My own session at the Enterprise 2.0 Summit was on Social Talent Management. Unfortunately attendance wasn’t great so I’m going to post here covering the key points of my presentation.

I was asked to talk about the evolution of talent management and I wanted to start by pushing back against the common tendency, which seems particularly strong in Enterprise 2.0 circles, to present roadmaps and journeys that all organisations are or should be on. I don't believe this is true in general and it's certainly not the case for talent management. There are many different approaches in talent management, and many different directions of travel going on at once as well.

To the extent that there are common trends, the use of social media is certainly one. But I still don't think this means talent management has become particularly social. I took people through Gary Hame's thoughts on management 2.0, which should really apply to the whole of Enterprise 2.0 too, but I think they have, or should have, particular resonance for talent management 2.0 as well.

But there's not much going on in talent management that demonstrates Hamel's principles:

Everyone has a voice
Capability counts for more than credentials and titles
Commitment is voluntary
Power is granted from below
Authority is fluid and contingent on value-added
The only hierarchies are ‘natural’ hierarchies
Communities are self-defining
Individuals are richly empowered with information
Just about everything is decentralised
Ideas compete on an equal footing
It's easy for buyers and sellers to find each other
Resources are free to follow opportunities
Decisions are peer-based.

So the good news is that there are things happening in just about every sub-process of talent management, except for, in the main, reward. We'll be discussing all of these over the next year at the Google Plus Social HR community, so if you're interested in finding out more, join us there too.