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29 September 2016

The Next Chapter in our Story

When Generator Talent started in 2007, we did a range of talent-related work; search, leadership development and consulting. When you start up a consulting business, you feel the need to... Read more...

11 February 2016

Bridging the Talent – Management Gap

My last post, The Real Talent – Management Gap described the ever widening space between what HR and talent professionals are thinking, saying and doing about developing people, and the... Read more...

3 February 2016

The Real Talent – Management Gap

The world of the talent specialist is continually evolving with increasingly sophisticated insights and technologies on the science, practice and process of leading and developing people.  When I was an... Read more...

29 October 2015

The Jetson’s View on How to Identify you Most Valuable Employees

So I woke up pretty early this morning, and as I’m sure you all do, I started thinking about a better way of finding and assessing your high performers. Not... Read more...

9 October 2015

Generator Talent Group launches Indium4

Today we announce the launch of our new business which supports start-ups, SMEs and other emerging clients in Australian and New Zealand called Indium4. Developed and led by our younger consultants,... Read more...

24 September 2015

I was busy doin’ something close to nothin’

Yes, it’s a line from the classic Prince song Raspberry Beret . . . and apologies upfront if you don’t get the song out of your head for a while,... Read more...

11 September 2015

The Four Elements of Performance Management

In recent posts I pointed out that Douglas Macgregor identified issues with the practice of performance appraisal in an HBR article nearly sixty years ago, issues scarily similar to the... Read more...

4 September 2015

A Further Uneasy Look at Performance Appraisal

Recently I published a post highlighting that while there has been a lot written about the failings of performance management practices and, the fact some high profile organisations have announced... Read more...

14 August 2015

An Uneasy Look at Performance Management

Ok wait. That’s not the title of my post! That’s the title of an article by Douglas Macgregor in the May-June 1957 issue of Harvard Business Review. Yep, that’s right,... Read more...

26 July 2015

My Memories of Craig Norgate

It’s been a sad week with Craig Norgate’s funeral in Taranaki, and along with many others, the tragedy of losing a colleague and friend too soon has really sunk in.... Read more...

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