Making Talent Decisions More Effectively with Paradox from Alan Hoffmanner on Vimeo.

Finding the perfect candidate is the desire when you have to hire a new employee.  How often does it happen? I think if you look at how most define perfect- it never happens.  It is like dating or picking a team for kickball or softball,  you have to try to find the optimal person, given what is available. 

What is the key?  Ideally, it's having the information so you can most accurately and objectively predict future performance. And inside this predictive information, in each of the imperfect candidates, its being able to understand the full package -the good, the bad and the ugly so you can make the best decision.

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are just beginning to have an impact on how organizations are managed, how talent decisions are made and how talent processes are designed, but the new reality will soon involve heavy doses of AR and VR…

Soft skills are critical across nearly all organizations- team behaviors,  management skills, communication capabilities, group problem solving, group decision making, personal effectiveness, emotional judgment, outlooks,  response and use of power,  conflict resolution and on and on.  With the increase in generational issues, diversity of cultures in organizations and pace of change, soft skills will increasingly get more important.

Organizations spend billions overall in training programs - some with good returns and others with little or none.  

How things are done, processes, the building blocks of business are changing.  You build successful organizations by building processes(sets of activities and decisions to achieve specific goals)  but now it's even more important that you optimize the people, technology and analytics in these processes if you want a successful result (and more literally, if you want to survive).  This is increasingly complicated by the fact that many processes, especially those involving the product or service delivery cycle, involve and flow through multiple organizations.