Super-charge your SME talent
Super-charge your technical subject matters experts! Expertunity’s Expert Talent Blog helps L&D, HR and OD professionals increase the capability, confidence and impact of their organizations’ technical superstars.
In HR and OD, we tend to focus on building leadership capability, but now the Age of the Experts has arrived. This blog focuses on the evolutionary nature of talent management, and how building the capability of expert talent is just as important - if not more so in the current climate - as building leadership bench-strength.
Editors of the Expert Talent Blog: Darin Fox, Dominic Johnson, and Alistair Gordon
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Why an expertise-driven world demands a differentiated talent strategy for experts
Understanding Expertship
Why experts need feedback, just like the rest of us. The use structured feedback processes – very often 360-degree or 180-degree multi-rater surveys – for leaders in our organizations, and as HR/OD we know how valuable these interactions are. But most organizations don’t use structured feedback for their technical experts. Why not?
What are enterprise skills, and why are they important for technical experts? Experts are known for their technical skills, but the very best experts have master enterprise skills as well.
Leading teams of experts: the invisible scary truth Leading teams of generalists is challenging, but leading teams of experts - some of whom are more expert than their managers - is an even greater challenge.
9 out of 10 Technical Expert quits could be avoided Every department head, leading a team of technical subject matter experts, has one thing on their mind: why are we losing our best people?
What working with HFL/Expertunity in 2021 has taught me about coaching and expertship
Can an organisation that doesn’t value its technical staff still be competitive?
Best read articles
Attracting and recruiting technical specialists: what does research and the market say?
The Geek Gap, & What to do about it
It’s annual review time: how do you turn around underperforming technical experts
Resource Centre, for Leaders of Experts: Leaders of Expert Teams Resource Centre
Case Study: Focus on expertship transforms employee development at Aon
Case Study: Case study: How Rachael Grant of GenesisCare made her technical specialists more effective
Best and the rest
Are Managers Holding Experts Back from Adding More Value?
Why experts need feedback, just like the rest of us.
Executive coaching for Subject Matter Experts (SMEs): Why it’s time has come
