This document discusses how innovative HR technology solutions can help address challenges related to personnel and technology. It highlights how advances in areas like talent management, performance management, and paperless document management have transformed HR processes. The document then introduces TalentGuard as one of 20 companies selected for their promising HR technology solutions. TalentGuard provides talent management software to help companies attract, retain, and engage employees by empowering them to explore careers and develop skills.

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T
he key components to an effective Human
Resource (HR) team consist of finding
solutions that address their biggest challenges
with respect to personnel and technology. The good
news is: innovative HR practices, from talent and
performance management to HR and paperless
documentmanagement,havereengineeredthelegacy
process. Organizations have overcome a myriad
of human capital challenges from geographical
limitations to mobilization. Ascendancy in HR
technology such as open door policies and proactive
measures to maintain employee relations have
transformed various processes from recruit to
retire functions and drastically changed the way
employees and managers get access to the human
resource data.
Technology has made it easier and faster
to gather, collate, and deliver information to
communicate with the employees. More importantly,
it has the potential to reduce the HR department’s
administrative burden so as to better equip the team
to focus on more meaningful HR activities, such as
providing managers with the expertise they need to
make effective HR related decisions. Companies
are fast learning the significance of incorporating
technology to serve a primary role in the human
capital ecosystem.
In order to simplify and assist CIOs identify the
right HR technology solutions, CIOReview presents
“20 Most Promising HR Technology Solution
Providers 2015.”
A distinguished panel comprising CEOs, CIOs,
VCs, analysts, and the CIOReview editorial board
has selected the top HR Technology Solution
Providers. In our selection process, we looked at
the vendor’s capability to fulfill the need for cost-
effective and flexible solutions that add value to the
HR technology landscape.
CIOREVIEW.COMOCTOBER 28 - 2015HR TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL
T h e N a v i g a t o r f o r E n t e r p r i s e S o l u t i o n s
20 Most Promising HR Technology Solution Providers 2015
Company:
TalentGuard
Description:
TalentGuard solves the employee engagement
and retention problem with easy-to-use
performance, 360 feedback, career pathing,
succession, development, compensation, and
certification tracking software for mid-sized
to large enterprises
Key Person:
Linda Ginac,
CEO
Website:
www.talentguard.com
TalentGuard
recognized by magazine as
Pradeep Shankar
An annual listing of 20 companies that are in the forefront of tackling
HR Technology challenges and impacting the marketplace
Editor-in-Chief

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TalentGuard
Engage and Retain Employees Simply with
TalentGuard’s Talent Management System
W
ith turnover at a record
high, companies are
struggling to attract,
retain, and engage top
talent. The problem is particularly acute
with Millennials who now make up
more than half of the workforce,” begins
Linda Ginac, CEO, TalentGuard. This
Austin, TX, based company addresses
the challenge of attracting, retaining, and
engaging talent with its innovative talent
management solutions.
When asked the question, “Why did
you leave?”, a majority of employees will
answer, “My boss (or the company) didn’t
care about my career” or “I saw no (or
limited) career growth opportunities.” An
employee who sees no future with their
current employer will be less engaged and
productive and will eventually leave. This
by itself can create critical skill gaps in the
organization that can negatively impact
a company’s top and bottom-line perfor-
mance. Retention is a key goal of engage-
ment.
TalentGuard’s innovative cloud-based
Talent Management Suite improves em-
ployee engagement by empowering em-
ployees with career self-management.
With Career Path by TalentGuard, em-
ployees can freely explore job roles within
their company and build aspirational ca-
reer paths. Career Path automatically iden-
tifies gaps in skills, capabilities, and expe-
rience and recommends learning options
such as on-line courses, links to training
material, and coaching and mentoring op-
portunities. Employees can create and col-
laborate on individual development plans
based on their career interest and skill
gaps and are empowered to assess skills
and levels of expertise to understand talent
gaps and needs as their company grows.
Additionally, “Our solution helps em-
ployees gain insight into job role expec-
tations thereby eliminating performance
review and career development surprises,”
says Ginac, “By improving engagement in
this way, employee productivity is maxi-
mized,” continues Ginac. “Building per-
formance management around employee
development is the holy grail of talent
management and is exactly the kind of so-
lution we deliver at TalentGuard.”
The company's innovation centers on
being the leading predictive people devel-
opment company. For instance, the firm is
innovating in the areas of predictive flight
risk, high potential, optimized personal
learning, employee development paths
and career path exploration.
With access to an employee’s career
history, interests, performance scores,
assessments, and feedback, HR and the
leadership team can be agile in succes-
sion planning with the identification of
high-potential employees. To power a
company’s talent management initiative,
TalentGuard devised the Career Core
Competency Framework, a structured and
standardized competency-based taxono-
my. “Our framework includes soft compe-
tencies, technical skills, experience stand-
ards, and qualifications as the foundation
for creating job role profiles. We also offer
the pre-built job role library. This enables
companies to use an integrated and cohe-
sive global approach to managing, devel-
oping, and deploying talent,” comments
Ginac. With this approach, companies
have a comprehensive view of their work-
force skills, experiences and aspirations at
an organizational level that truly enables
employees to have a preference in their
career development.
Having powerful and easy-to-use soft-
ware and a comprehensive framework
enables organizations to gain valuable
insights about their company for decision-
making. Companies like Starz Entertain-
ment and Heartland Dental use Talent-
Guard’s software solutions to develop and
engage talent, creating a high performance
global workforce.
Ginac's deep domain expertise, lead-
ership qualities and a passion to bring
out the best in people is what makes the
company highly innovative. TalentGuard
partners with companies as value crea-
tors to bring about changes that impact
the heart of organizations and the bottom
line. Through integration and partnership
with other best-of-class technologies, the
firm serves a primary role in the Human
Capital ecosystem.
Companies struggling with
retention and engagement
need a comprehensive and fully
integrated software suite that
connects employees to their
company and career in a deeply
personal and meaningful way
Linda Ginac