Decide which strategies will grow you, your organization, people, relationships... and your community.

The Kolbe A, B and C Indexes® provide a holistic understanding of the natural instincts and unique talents of each employee. Understanding these instincts enables you to form synergistic teams and empowers managers to develop effective approaches for successful leadership. Any size company can benefit from the Kolbe Wisdom® system.

Achieving a goal should yield growth, so make sure that each goal you set is attainable, but isn’t such a breeze to accomplish that it requires little to no effort. That means that a goal must be specific, too, so that the employee and the manager have a metric and can clearly see whether it’s been met.

Before the economic downturn, SHRM reported in 2006 that 40% of workers were likely to change jobs when the economy turns. Has it happened? At Insight, we have used this statistic for years.

Think about why and how you use (or would use) a talent management system. Just to keep track of employee performance and compensation data?

When thinking about your organization’s future, it’s important to think not only about goals, objectives, and initiatives, but obviously how to achieve them. A major contributor is obviously your employees.

Talent pooling enables you to establish a clear profile and clear expectations so that you can explore possible candidates for key positions, future positions, and positions that are often replicated in the organization.

Making the switch to “performance planning” is more than semantics. It’s a shift in mindset that signals a commitment to developing your employees and supporting their career goals.

True change takes a lot of effort by a lot of people. If you don’t have buy-in and support from at least 25% of your workforce then road is going to be even more perilous.

In their book Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide, Peter Rea, Ph.D. and Harold Kernzer, Ph.D. note that no strategic approach fits all situations, and as a result “contingency theory rules the day” (2). What is equally true, the authors say, is that all strategies require good sense and judgment.

Each of the implementation steps builds on the previous phases so that you will have all the right pieces in place when you introduce BLOOM® to your employees:

Looking at the ability of employees’ efforts to align with the expectations of the business needs for growth should be a daily occurrence. However, managers themselves are caught up in tactics and focus primarily on their own individual performance so much that they cannot step back and see the big picture.