When you want to improve your ability to select the right people for the job, or manage them more effectively, or develop them optimally, you need to realize that decision support tools have drastically improved in the last few years.    Choosing the right employees and managing them effectively involves ongoing decisions that need to be supported with critical information.  The validated information that is now available inexpensively is a really a game changer  (in the game of management).

With advances in behavioral science combined with digital technology, great improvements have recently been made in our ability to predict performance in specific jobs and with the underlying predictive data, to assist in better onboarding and managing employees.  When it comes time to acquire talent, develop talent, plan talent or build effective teams, if you're not understanding the natural tendencies, motivations, work preferences, task preferences and attitudes of your people, you are paying a big price whether you know it or not. 

Many organizations have failed to see the full promise of talent management systems and the two most common reasons are partial implementations and failing to integrate predictive behavioral information on each employee with their talent management processes and systems.