This was an interesting training and development article that I felt worthy of sharing with other HR Professionals. I felt the following information to be vital and critical to the future success of organizations and the talent development challenges seeing that more companies are going global, outsourcing, and growing more increasingly than ever diverse. I hope that you find this article to be interesting and worthy enough to discuss and address the issues. I look forward to your opinions and comments and don' t forget to access the article in it's entirety by copying and pasting the link at the end of this page into your browser and let the community know what your thoughts are.

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Dominique

Excerpt from the article:

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The Talent Development Challenge

During a recent conference, four learning executives at major companies discussed the challenge of tailoring training and development to meet the needs of fast-changing, hard-charging global companies. All are striving to integrate learning into their talent management processes.

By Garry Kranz

The effective development of talent, beginning with consistent onboarding processes and extending to leadership development and succession, is the key ingredient that companies need to endure the vicissitudes of an uncertain economy.

http://www.workforce.com/section/11/feature/25/57/54/

Thanks for the reference.