Introducing Talent Maps™ from Globoforce.

By Darcy Jacobsen

Yesterday, when we talked about how important data is becoming in HR, I really, REALLY wanted to leak this exciting announcement about our newest Talent Maps™ product—which is going to revolutionize how you manage your talent and your culture.  But Kevin, our Communications Director, said it was super top secret until today and I could tell you, but then he’d have to kill me.

He was kidding. (I think.)

Today, however, I get to shout about it! We all constantly hear how we need to cultivate our top talent. But the refrain that plagues so many is: “Sure… but how do I FIND my top talent?” Annual reviews seem to be inherently problematic, and so much of the input we get is squishy and subjective.

Enter Talent Maps™: hard data gleaned from your recognition program that points you directly to the top performers and influencers in your organization. Talent Maps instantly provide new, intuitive ways to identify and track top performers by using the wisdom of the crowds—gathering intelligence from the colleagues who recognize their peers on an ongoing basis.

Use visual, powerful Talent Maps to identify high-potential, high-performance individuals for performance assessment, succession planning and flight risk assessment.

You can click through to our announcement to learn more, but just to confirm why I’m excited, here is what Yvette Cameron, VP and principal analyst from Constellation Research said about Talent Maps:

“Performance management is only as good as its data. With this release, Globoforce uses recognition as the central data component for performance and potential indicators. The result is a useful, compelling data set of organizational relationships and performance assessments that are created in the context of getting work done. By further leveraging this data into performance reviews, business and HR leaders will be able to align ratings with the performance and behaviors that everyone across the organization recognizes on a daily basis.”

Read more about Globoforce’s  data reporting and analytics, or better yet, contact us for a Talent Maps demo.

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