Welcome to the fifth issue of Human Insight’s Feedforward. In this issue we focus on talent. Everyone’s talking about the need to acquire or retain (or even divest) talent, at a time when cost control is critical. Human Insight approach talent as part of the solution to successfully negotiating market and economic difficulties and meeting the inevitable upturn in a stronger competitive position.

The Talent Management Summit, Monaco, June 2009

Rick Price, CEO of Human Insight draws conclusions after attending a major international Talent Management Summit in Monaco, where some of the world’s largest organisations described their approaches to leadership and talent.

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Our Approach to Talent Management

Talent management is big business: perhaps 85% of large corporates run leadership development programmes for instance. Rick Price reflects on conventional approaches to leadership development and shows how Human Insight offer something different. He stresses the importance of leaders who are ‘comfortably out of control’ in times of complex, turbulent change.

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New Developments in Psychometrics

We’ve produced a number of videos to communicate key business ecology concepts and applications. Ian Florance has worked in psychometric testing for 30 years and in this short video he explains why Human Insight’s tools mark a major break through – as he puts it ‘an A-Ha! moment’ – in the measurement of human characteristics at work.

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Achieving rapid transformation with the right people.

Read this short chapter from a book by Professor Peter Robertson, and Ruurd Dijkman of GITP, Human Insight’s Dutch partner. It is an incisive analysis of how leadership must approach business crises, illuminating issues such as leadership consistency, the true meaning of workforce diversity, critical mass and the critical contribution of innovation This is an extract from a successful book published by our partner GITP.

Practitioners' Extranet

We launched our Practitioners' Extranet at the beginning of the year as a community where you can share insights, experiences and advances in business ecology. If you have log on details, why not go in and see what’s new. If you’d like to join the network, e-mail extranet@human-insight.com with your request.