Talent Management 2 by Colin Coulson-Thomas is a new report published by Policy Publications. The 184-page document, available at www.policypublications.com, describes how employers can take a quicker, less expensive and more sustainable route to becoming a high-performing business by working with existing key and front-line workers.
44 (0) 7718 921 950 | www.policypublications.com | info@policypublications.com
Ipsos InnoQuest has developed an innovation performance framework that identifies nine drivers for achieving innovation. Using the framework as a guide, business leaders can focus on key factors that drive innovation among their staffs.
(212) 265-3200 | www.ipsos-na.com | info@ipsos-na.com
Avalon Consulting has launched ADEPTCentral, a service that provides learning and performance management expertise to academic, corporate and government organizations. This service is designed to help employees react quickly and adapt effectively to changing business environments.
(972) 378-6781 | www.ADEPTCentral.com | info@adepcentral.com
Infor has released the latest version of its software Infor Workforce Management 6.0. The version features a reorganized interface designed to deliver workforce data to users in an intuitive and easy-to use manner.
(800) 260-2640 | www.infor.com | info@infor.com
Bersin & Associates has introduced BersinInsights, an integrated platform that uses research, management models, information and proven people strategies to help businesses benchmark with high-performing organizations. BersinInsights combines a variety of resources and then cross-references to pertinent data that can help employers find answers quickly and develop training and development programs that align with core business strategies.
(510) 251-4400 | www.bersin.com | info@bersin.com
Visier Inc. has developed and released a comprehensive analytics application for business leaders and HR professionals. Visier Workforce Analytics is designed to help employers get a better perspective and more accurate picture of their organization’s performance. The tool can reduce costs by improving productivity and reducing turnover of top talent.
(888) 277-9331 | www.visier.com | info@visier.com
Halogen Software has released an enhancement called Halogen Feedback. The module works with the Halogen Talent Management Suite and is designed to help leaders use feedback to improve the job performance of employees and supervisors.
(866) 566-7778 | www.halogensoftware.com | info@halogensoftware.com
Activate Networks Inc. has developed and released the Personal Network Assessment. This assessment tool is designed to help HR executives streamline decision-making processes, promote innovation, remove bottlenecks and increase workforce efficiencies.
(617) 558-0210 | www.activatenetworks.net | info@activatenetworks.net
Evolv has upgraded and expanded its web-based performance analytics software to help business leaders measure, understand and improve hourly employee performance. The new and improved Foresight software is designed to help quantify workforce quality plus identify and predict improvements for workforce performance.
(866) 971-4473 | www.evolvondemand.com | dhui@evolvondemand.com
Visier Inc. has launched Visier Workforce Analytics, an analytic software tool designed to help HR professionals measure, predict and share critical workforce data. Visier Workforce Analytics can help HR professionals better align their HR functions with business strategies and objectives. It provides HR professionals a way to gather workforce data and then use the information to assess talent and predict employee behaviors. With this information, HR managers can find solutions to critical workforce challenges and help make talent management decisions.
(888) 277-9331 | www.visier.com | info@visier.com
An updated Social Goals 2.0 module has been integrated into the web-based social performance management platform Rypple. Social Goals 2.0 is based on an objectives and key results model developed by Intel and now used by companies such as Google, Zynga and Spotify. Users can track projects colleagues are working on and adapt objectives to business conditions.
(888) 479-7753 | www.rypple.com | support@rypple.com
PI Worldwide has introduced the Influence Skills Assessment Tool, which is designed to provide an in-depth look at the core skills required for influencing others. In today’s growth-driven economy, employees in all functions rely on the ability to articulate ideas, present clear and compelling plans, and get buy-in on projects and business strategies. The tool offers a way for leaders and managers in business functions such as information technology, human resources, quality assurance and risk management to build consensus, motivate change and improve organizational effectiveness.
(800) 832-8884 | www.piworldwide.com | info@piworldwide.com
MetLife has announced upgrades and enhancements to its popular workplace productivity tool, MetLife Total Absence Management. MetLife Total Absence Management is available to employers with 1,000 or more employees. Enhancements include additional real-time, online resources for HR managers; expanded online leave submission for employers and employees; the ability for managers to subscribe to automatic e-mail notifications; and improved tracking and reporting functions. For example, employers have access to a wider range of custom reporting features that help identify patterns in employee absences, including reports on business operations, productivity and workforce analyses.
(877) 638-2862 | www.metlife.com | info@metlife.com
StepStone Solutions has introduced a version of its popular talent management tool StepStone Solutions ETWeb. The updated version of the web-based tool features new capabilities such as an absence management function and an upgraded learning management module. The absence management function provides users a way to plan for workforce availability and staffing levels by accurately and efficiently tracking vacation time and sick days.
(866) 708-4760 | www.stepstonesolutions.com | info@stepstonesolutions.com
Influence to Action Inc. has developed and released the Beyond Morale program, a tool designed to help employers engage their workers. The Beyond Morale program is an online resource that offers a system of measures, activities and processes for engaging workers and improving productivity. The program is designed to support employers’ existing performance management, leadership development and team-building processes and align HR processes with business strategies.
(917) 740-0068 | www.beyondmorale.com | sales@beyondmorale.com
Saba has released the Saba Collaboration Suite, a business networking solution designed to combine social learning for employees with collaborative performance management. Saba Collaboration allows businesses to mobilize and engage employees to develop business strategies and connect workers with each other through social learning. The strategies and employee connections can help businesses accelerate growth while cultivating an innovative culture.
(877) 722-2101 | www.saba.com | info@saba.com
Mercer has announced the global launch of Human Capital Connect, a rewards and talent management consulting and technology solution designed to help employers address human capital and performance issues. With Human Capital Connect, employers can connect their rewards and talent strategies, programs and processes with technology. Organizations that use Human Capital Connect will receive a three-phase human capital life-cycle solution: Phase one involves comprehensive analyses of current programs and processes; phase two involves deploying performance management, succession planning, compensation and incentives technology throughout an organization; and phase three helps optimize the first two phases with adoption of change management and training programs.
(212) 345-7000 | www.mercer.com/humancapitalconnect | info@mercer.com
Microsoft Inc. has released the software tool Microsoft Project Server 2010. The software is built on Microsoft’s popular SharePoint Server 2010 and is designed to combine collaboration services and structured operations functions to create flexible work management solutions. Project Server 2010 combines project and portfolio management to help organizations align resources and investments with business strategies and allow users to manage performance.
(800) 642-7676 | www.microsoft.com/project/en/us/project-server-2010.aspx | microsoft@microsoft.com
PeriscopeIQ has released performance and employee feedback management tools. The employee feedback solutions are designed to help employers maximize their workforce’s talents by accurately measuring organizational culture. By getting a clear picture of workforce engagement and employee values and beliefs, executives can develop strategies to improve performance. The feedback tool provides employers with accurate ways to assess and rate workers’ performance through individual feedback and to create guides that map and track employees’ competencies.
(610) 866-6001 | www.periscopeiq.com | info@periscopeiq.com
To help employers reduce stress and increase employee satisfaction, Prophit Marketing Inc. has launched the About Me Card program, an employee engagement system that combines communication approaches with supporting software. This engagement and performance management tool creates practical personal assessments of individuals. They examine and reveal fundamental motivation drivers. The assessment offers insight into personal motivation that can help HR professionals, business owners and managers create career development paths and show an employee how to perform his or her job in meaningful and productive ways.
(920) 435-4878 | www.aboutmecard.com | info@aboutmecard.com
PivotLink has released a performance and business intelligence analysis tool called ReadiMetrix. The online software tool includes three applications that can combine performance indicators, business reports and other data into a single analysis tool designed to help businesses streamline their performance management systems. ReadiMetrix offers sales, marketing and human resource professionals ways to measure the results of best practices, monitor progress and align the analyses with business goals.
(866) 625-9884 | www.pivotlink.com | sales@pivotlink.com
Workscape Inc. has released a new version of its Performance Manager software. The version is designed to help employers improve workforce productivity by providing an effective manager-employee communications platform. The software is designed to tie goals to development plans of individual employees and not to annual performance evaluations. The model allows managers to move away from a rigid culture of annual evaluations to a culture that focuses on communications and offers continual workforce interaction and planning. By using the updated software, employees can view a simple snapshot of their goals, competencies and development plans on one screen so they know what is expected of them at all times.
(888) 605-9620 | www.workscape.com | info@workscape.com
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