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Blog:Corporate Mentoring Benefits Employee Development

In this podcast Claire covers the three most common types of relationships in workplace mentoring and goes on to discuss the benefits to the mentor, mentee, and organization. She cites two major...

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Blog:Use Social Media To Drive More Learning

My colleagues and I talk often about social collaboration and its tepid adoption. The fact is that it’s hard to get employees to use a tool unless they see a real use for it. This is certainly...

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Blog:Market Moves Toward Integrated Performance And Learning

I attended the Taleo customer conference last week in Chicago where CEO Michael Gregoire in his opening session speech boasted about Taleo’s recent acquisition of Learn.com, a $26...

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Report:Understanding Business Change Management Challenges

Persistent Questions Business Process Pros Ask

The pace of continuous improvement and transformational change in business processes continues to accelerate, often outpacing employees' ability to keep up. In general, businesspeople don't embrace...

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Blog:Lessons From A Photo Book

For Christmas, my daughter Sarah gave me a book of photos of last summer’s family trip to Cape Cod. Each page was beautifully designed with descriptions of the events captured in the photos:...

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Tool:Rockwell Collins Mentoring Metrics Show Program Growth

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Blog:Taleo Makes Strategic Jobpartners Acquisition To Boost Its European Presence

Today Taleo announced the acquisition of privately-held, Europe-based Jobpartners for $38 million (€25 million) in cash. With this acquisition, Taleo strengthens its European presence in...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Drive Continuous Improvement With Strong Change Management And Employee Training

Continuous Improvement: The Human Resource Management Playbook

This report, the continuous improvement component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, will help application development and delivery professionals (AD&D pros), CIOs, and their HR...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:HRM Solutions: Traditional Models Clash With Next-Generation Processes And Technology

Human resource management (HRM) applications — consisting of six categories of solutions ranging from core transactions to strategic talent management — represent a market in transition....

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Blog:An Active Year In Strategic Talent Management And More To Come In 2011

At Forrester, we think of strategic talent management as made up of four pillars: Recruiting, Performance (including succession and career development), Learning, and Compensation, which sit on top...

For Business Process Professionals

Client Inquiry:Training Modality Standards For Design And Delivery

I was wondering if you could recommend any articles or sources for the following: training modality standards for training design (what type of content is best put into eLearning, face-to-face...

For Business Process Professionals

Client Inquiry:Should We Invest In More Than One Learning Management System?

We are looking at our learning management system (LMS) investment. Should we invest in more than one LMS for different parts of our global company or try to make one LMS work worldwide?

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:HR Wave On Talent Gets New Name

Last month, I published an update to my 2011 Forrester Wave™ on talent management because the human resource management (HRM) market has experienced tremendous consolidation and many top-rated...

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Report:Add Virtual Classroom To Online Learning

The Interactive Virtual Classroom Replaces Selected Classroom Learning

An interactive virtual classroom is not your usual Webinar, Web conference, or online event. Instead, rather than a lecture, this online instructional approach involves learners who work from...

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Tool:Mentor/Mentee Survey Summary

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Blog:New HR Analytics Research Focuses On Improving The Talent Management Processes

Boris Evelson and I have published research entitled “Use HR Analytics To Optimize Talent Processes.” The premise: HR analytics have taken on new importance as companies work to find,...

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Blog:Avoid The 70% Failure Rate Of Change Management Initiatives

You read that number right: seventy percent, a dramatically high rate of failure. It could happen to you unless you take into account that any business process change is strongly related to personal...

For Business Process Professionals

Client Inquiry:Employee Training And Skill Levels

I would like to receive research on applications that track employee training and skill levels. I would also like to know: What are the costs for these products? What's the usual implementation...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Transform Strategic Processes For Talent Management And Employee Engagement

Processes: The Human Resource Management Playbook

This report, the processes component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, enables application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals, CIOs, and their HR business partners to...

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Report:Sustain Agile With Formal And Informal Training

Change Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the change management for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you...

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Blog:IBM Announces Plans To Acquire Kenexa, A Talent Software And Services Company

I’m thrilled to see “people” talked about as a major focus of business. Company executives recognize that people are critical to sustainable organizational growth. Talent is now a...

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Blog:SAP Plans To Acquire SuccessFactors: A Major Move In The Talent Management Field

ERP vendors are showing strong interest in the HRM SaaS market. They are either attempting to build a solution (as Oracle is doing with Fusion) or looking to acquire HRM functionality (as SAP is...

For CIO Professionals

Report:Effective Business Change Management Requires More Than A Wait-And-See Attitude

Business change management is a top corporate challenge. Changing people's beliefs and behaviors is demanding and difficult work; succeeding in the face of resistance, decreased productivity,...

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Blog:Change Management: A Critical Component Of Any New Business Process

Think of how often you hear the term change management in relation to a new business process. What’s your reaction? Is it “More of that high level stuff that sounds good, but . . .”...

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Blog:Company Career Sites Engage Candidates Early In The Recruiting Process

  Today’s top career sites do more than list jobs available. The best ones give a glimpse of what it’s like to work at the company, communicate the company values, and introduce the...