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Uli Seit for The New York Times. Photo of journalist Marie Colvin in living room of her mother, Rosemarie Colvin
I’ve been very touched by the death of Marie Colvin, a journalist who died for her belief that she must keep reporting the situation in Homs “so that no one would have an excuse to say, ‘I did not know’.” A woman who believed that journalism could curtail the excesses of brutal regimes, and make the world pay attention. Read the rest of this entry »
Talent Management
Over the last few years ‘Talent Management‘ has become a buzzword on the lips of HR professionals in large organizations – but how is it relevant to the individual? And what happens if your organization doesn’t have a talent management program (some times known as a ‘Fast-Stream’), or if you can’t get into it? How can you manage your own talent to ensure your career success?
Let’s start with the what and the why.
In an article on how it feels to be talent-managed, the UK’s CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) describes talent management as follows:
‘Talent management is the systematic attraction, identification, development, engagement, retention and deployment of those individuals who are of particular value to an organization, either in view of their ‘high potential’ for the future or because they are fulfilling business/operation-critical roles.’
Many of us were shocked and saddened to hear of the suicide of the manager of the Welsh national football team, Gary Speed. He was 42, he’d seemed well, happy and enthusiastic about his family, his career success and the Welsh team, and yet something must have been very wrong for him. People drew parallels between his death and that of the German goalkeeper, Robert Enke.
But something positive seems to have come out of his death, too. It is reported that several top footballers have sought help for their depression in the days following his death. And it has put the question of mental health back on the agenda.
One of the questions people ask is, how can highly paid, successful sports stars, who have it all, become so miserable. I think one of the answers lies in the relationship between depression and stress.
Top competitors can be as stressed in their career as anyone. They put themselves through demanding training regimes, and many of them sacrifice their family life to the requirements of the sport as the pursue their career success. The satisfaction you can achieve when you are that focused on one thing and one thing only can be enormous. But that level of success is not always enough, and many sports people find it difficult to cope with the consequences of failure, or a dwindling career. Read the rest of this entry »
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