Navigating the Talent Shift: How to Build On-Demand Teams that Drive Innovation, Control Costs, and Get Results - Hardcover

Hufford, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137548037 ISBN 13: 9781137548030

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

By 2020, 40 percent of the workforce won’t want to be your employee. That means managers and executives have to forget the old recruit-and-search for-months methods to acquire talent and revise their perception that “talent” is only full-time employees. The good news is that this talent allows you to achieve the biggest impact on your projects in the fastest time possible. 

In Navigating the Talent Shift, author Lisa Hufford  introduces you to SPEED: a fast, and flexible talent strategy that shows companies how to access the 65 million people that make up the on-demand, specialized talent pool. This strategy shows you how to:

• Stop spending months searching for talent

• Have a team of on-demand talent at your fingertips

• Exponentially expand your talent pool 

• Test ideas and change direction fast to stay competitive and drive innovation

• Reduce severance and layoffs

• Bring afresh perspective with strategic doers on your team

• Do more with less

Navigating the Talent Shift will show you and your team how to tap into an on-demand workforce while providing you with the talent you need to be nimble and successful.

 

About this title

About the Author

Lisa Hufford is the founder and CEO of Simplicity Consulting, which has been named to the Inc. 5000 list for five years running as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Inc. also named Lisa one of the top 10 female entrepreneurs, and she has been chosen as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Woman. 

Simplicity is a talent solutions company with expertise in sales and marketing delivering results for companies including Microsoft, Amazon, T-Mobile and more. Prior to founding Simplicity Consulting, Lisa managed strategic high-value partners for Microsoft and RR Donnelley, including Sun Microsystems, IBM, Gateway, and Apple.

From the Back Cover

By 2020, 40 percent of the workforce won’t want to be your employee. That means managers and executives have to forget the old recruit-and-search for-months methods to acquire talent and revise their perception that “talent” is only full-time employees. The good news is that this talent allows you to achieve the biggest impact on your projects in the fastest time possible.

In Navigating the Talent Shift, author Lisa Hufford introduces you to SPEED: a fast, and flexible talent strategy that shows companies how to access the 65 million people that make up the on-demand, specialized talent pool. This strategy shows you how to:

• Stop spending months searching for talent

• Have a team of on-demand talent at your fingertips

• Exponentially expand your talent pool

• Test ideas and change direction fast to stay competitive and drive innovation

• Reduce severance and layoffs

• Bring a fresh perspective with strategic doers on your team

• Do more with less

Navigating the Talent Shift will show you and your team how to tap into an on-demand workforce while providing you with the talent you need to be nimble and successful.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137548037
• ISBN 13: 9781137548030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166