Eight-point plan to turn around failing performance management

    Talent management software specialist Head Light will offer practical advice on how HR teams can embed the processes and practices that enable real performance improvement, and not just ‘tick-box’ performance management, at Learning Technologies 2015 (28-29 January, Olympia 2). The company has researched and identified an eight-point action plan for HR teams, managers and employees, which can turn around failing performance management initiatives.…

    Head Light provides comment in FT article

    You may have seen our Head of Business Psychology, Debbie Hance, quoted in the Financial Times on Monday 5 January.…

    Management bias can hold back employees

    HR teams need to use and interpret data more effectively if they want to overcome management bias and spot who really has talent and potential in their organisation, according to talent management software specialist Head Light. “Organisations rightly want to identify which employees have the capability and potential to add real value in the future, so they can nurture, engage and retain them,” said Debbie Hance, Head of Business Psychology at Head Light. “But many HR teams find it difficult to articulate what they mean by ‘potential’, so it’s often left to the opinions of managers or the views of an interview panel whether or not someone is deemed to be ‘talent’. The whole process is vulnerable to psychological bias and this could be holding back the progression of talent in today’s organisations.”…

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