Career Pathways and Planning – We have an App for that...

Career planning and retention has understandably fallen off the top of the agenda of many organisations over the past few years.  As your employees return from their holidays, many will have intentions to make changes in their career.  The question is no longer 'Are we doing enough to retain them', but 'If retention and high performance are an outcome, are we actually doing the right things now?'

Organisations have become more complex, more matrixed, much flatter and vastly more fluid over the years and it's become harder for employees to see where their future is and how to work their way through the organisational maze.  Career planning resources in booklets and on intranets are almost out of date as soon as they are published.   

Career Apps (or Applications) are dynamic and data driven: based on the actual progress people make in terms of roles fulfilled and rate of progression. They engage individuals in their own career mapping process and go far beyond simple web sites that contain largely static and rapidly obsolete resources.

The career planning landscape has changed - find out how your organisation could respond here.

Enthusiasm for Talent Advance® at BPS
Coaching Conference

At the 1st International Congress of Coaching Psychology in London last month, Head Light unveiled the latest version of Talent Advance®, the on-line coaching platform within the Talent® suite.  End-users and representatives from coaching firms were impressed with the linkages made between assessment and development activities and also how it would facilitate more effective distance and telephone-based coaching.

We also introduced the coaching community to rare case studies of similar organisations making use of the Talent® platform under their own branding to provide bespoke 360-degree reviews and enhanced feedback and performance coaching sessions.  Visit our web site to discover how other coaching and HR service providers have been able to exploit their own Intellectual Property (such as leadership models, psychometrics and training programmes) using our technology here.

 If you are a coach or HR service Provider and weren't able to go to the Congress but would like to hear more about benefitting from our technology and becoming a Partner, do get in touch here.

A date for your diary – 2011 Learning and Skills

January is no doubt getting busy with appointments and meetings but remember to include the 2011 Learning and Skills conference and exhibition on 26th and 27th January at Olympia 2.

The exhibition supports the Learning Technologies conference and is billed as the "must attend event for all learning and development professionals."

We are speaking on Wednesday at 11:15 at Theatre 8 on 'More than just 360 feedback - aligning assessment, development, coaching and career planning', where you'll hear more of our thoughts and we'll share with you how to take those first steps into Talent Management.

We're also exhibiting - so do drop by and meet us: we are on stand 160 and for those interested in the development of feedback skills, we are running a special 'Beat the Expert' programme using Talent FQ, our unique on-line assessment! 

See below for more details.

Beat the Expert - What's your Feedback Quotient (FQ)™?

We all give feedback – to varying levels of detail and success – but how effective are we at doing this?

Head Light's Head of Business Psychology Debbie Hance, has developed Talent FQ – a short online Situational Judgement Test which measures how effective your managers are likely to be at delivering performance enhancing and developmental feedback. Through her research, Debbie has identified and profiled the underpinning competences of those who are very skilled at giving feedback. This enabled us to develop an assessment with solid and evidence-based foundations which was then trialled and piloted with leading experts in the coaching and career development field.

Talent FQ makes use of our Talent Spotter assessment technology and challenges users to identify the effective and ineffective strategies when faced with a range of challenging feedback situations.

At Learning & Skills 2011, we are offering iPod Nanos to three lucky winners who achieve expert beating scores!  If you can't be there, do contact us here to have a chance anyway! 
Terms & Conditions apply.

Talent Version 5.0 – the next generation of our talent management software

At Head Light we know that the best product development road maps are built when they are based on thought leadership, customer insight and a keen focus on the end-user experience. Our software is crafted with our existing and future customers firmly in mind.  We build in consultation and feedback into every element of our working with customers. 

See how our User Group reacted to the unveiling of our latest version here.

Please do get in touch to here arrange an on-line demonstration about how Talent® could be used within your organisation to support your talent management strategy.

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