TM - January 2008 - (Page 4)

[from the editor] by Mike Prokopeak S S New Year, New Beginnings ince at least ancient Roman times, the month of January has represented the start of the new year — a time to wipe the slate clean and begin anew. Long before the Romans, people tracked and recorded the passage of time using the rising and setting of the sun, the waxing and waning of the moon, and the sun’s seasonal movements across the sky. But it was the ancient Egyptians who first incorporated these cycles doorways and, most interestingly, beginnings. Janus is commonly pictured with two faces — one looking back to the past and the other facing toward the future. While many of the Latin meanings of the original calendar no longer apply, the idea that January marks an opportunity to reflect on the past and look forward to the future remains. In January, many of us resolve to improve ourselves in the coming year, commit to losing weight, get more organized or quit a bad habit. techniques and processes for creating and maintaining an effective talent management function; and methods for achieving sustained business impact through an integrated talent strategy. In addition to a full lineup of interactive discussion panels, informational forums and interactive workshops, the event will feature a slate of exciting keynote addresses by industry leaders, including Dr. Jac Fitz-enz, the father of human capital analytics; human performance expert and Talent Management columnist Harold Stolovitch; HR innovators Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, the revolutionaries behind the resultsfocused workplace culture at Best Buy; and Chris Majer, CEO of the Human Potential Project, who will discuss the innovations that HR leaders must make to truly impact their organization. Strategies 2008 will also feature Analysts Day, a special event that brings together respected analysts to share their insights on the talent management industry. As part of the day, our editorial staff will unveil the results of our groundbreaking industry study, the Talent Management State of the Industry Report 2008. This proprietary report is chock-full of valuable business data and industry intelligence you can use to benchmark your talent management efforts against the world’s leading companies. To find out more about the event, visit www.talentmgt.com/events. It marks another new beginning for Talent Management magazine, and much like Janus, we’re keeping one eye focused on the past and its successes, and the other looking forward to an exciting future. In 2008, we’re marking another new beginning. We’re bringing the leading strategies, innovations and techniques from the pages of the magazine directly to our audience. In business, we begin a new budget year and begin our mission to meet ambitious fiscal goals. Here at Talent Management magazine, we embarked on a new beginning in January 2007. We rebranded and relaunched the magazine, dedicating ourselves to covering the critical business role that talent managers play in the success of an organization. In 2008, we’re marking another new beginning. We’re bringing the leading strategies, innovations and techniques from the pages of the magazine directly to our audience. From May 5–7, we’ll host Talent Management Magazine’s Strategies 2008 at the Camelback Inn by Marriott in Scottsdale, Ariz. The three-day event will bring together HR executives and industry leaders from around the world to discuss innovative strategies and practices for developing and implementing an integrated talent management strategy that drives results. At the event, built around the theme “Perspectives on Managing People,” talent management leaders will discuss cutting-edge initiatives and innovations for managing talent; into one comprehensive calendar. The Romans, in typical fashion, refined the calendar to more efficiently administer their sprawling empire. The word calendar actually comes from the Latin word kalendarium, meaning the ledger book used to track and collect debts on each month’s first day, the kalends. We still use the names the Romans gave to the months today, although the Latin meanings no longer match the modern reality. The original Roman calendar began in March and consisted of 10 months, many of them named sequentially. For example, the seventh month was named September after the Latin word for seven, septem. October (octo), November (novem) and December (decem) followed suit. With the addition of January and February and further changes under Julius Caesar, the calendar took on the shape that we recognize today. That calendar, further refined in later years into the Gregorian calendar, is still widely used and has become the primary calendar for commerce across the globe. The first month, January, is named after Janus, the Roman god of gates, January 2008 Mike Prokopeak Editorial Director mikep@TalentMgt.com 4 talent management magazine www.TalentMgt.com http://www.talentmgt.com/events http://www.TalentMgt.com

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TM - January 2008 Editor's Letter Contents Learning Connections: Working With Those People Leading Edge: Hub Caps for a Buggy Human Performance: Hawthorne Effect Revisited Beyond Affirmative Action: The Changing Face of Recruitment Assessment Centers in Talent Management: Strategies, Use and Value Nontraditional Benefits- How to Hook the Best Talent Intersection of Web 2.0 and Talent Management Cross-Training for Workforce Agility Mapping Talent Among Younger Workers Dashboard: Using Personality Data to Identify and Develop High-Potential Leaders Application: Shaffer Title Uses Myers-Briggs to Develop Common Corporate Language, Jump-Start Growth Insight: Dreier, Stein & Kahan LLP: Using Strategy to Bring Back the Law Profession Advertisers' Index Editorial Resources Full Potential: Stop in the Name of Leadership

TM - January 2008

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