Course Description

INTRODUCTION

Identifying, developing and retaining your talent has never been more important for the industry with the ever changing economic market. An organisations best and most valuable asset is undoubtedly the people; as it’s the people who operate the systems, the equipment and who can really make the difference between growth or failure. Losing or not being able to recruit the best talent can have a disastrous impact on an organization’s growth and sustainability. This highly-interactive Strategic Talent Management training course will teach you the key talent management processes, systems and procedures in order to apply these in the multi-complex industries.

Objectives

In this Strategic Talent Management training course, you will learn to:

Understand the mechanisms to define talent, as well as manage your talent and high potential

Develop key strategies to optimize your talent and high potential employees

Engage and employ robust talent strategies within the complex multi-discipline industries

Produce develop effective and functional succession planning strategies

The benefit of this course

Have the ability to understand and relate to people in the organization

Provide the mechanism for sustainable growth of the business

Possess the skills and development aptitude to ensure the growth of individuals to achieve their maximum potential

Identify, develop and retain high potential and talented people

Understand and formulate higher level strategy to drive their organisation’s growth

Analyse complex personal data, models and theories using subjective and objective processes

Improve their ability to communicate, influence and work with others

Course Outline

DAY 1

Defining and Attracting Talent

Talent management – Overview and background

Talent / high potential - Defining the criteria

Talent options - Recruit external or grow internal

Aligning talent management with organisational development (OD) and business strategy

Utilising workforce planning and other sources of data

Attraction strategies – Use of media and other channels

DAY 2

Creating Your High Potential Talent Pool

Talent management models, grading and structures

Assessment methods and systems - Use of Psychometric / Behavioral / Competency Frameworks

Conducting an effective talent gap analysis

ABC model of potential – Getting the criteria right

Using the 9 Box Grid, and other methods to create your talent and high potential matrix

DAY 3

Developing Your Talent and High Potentials

Defining high caliber development options

Conducting an effective performance discussion

Creating individual development plans

Powerful feedback techniques: Motivating individuals to achieve higher potential

Coaching for success

DAY 4

Retaining and Sustaining Your Talent and High Potentials

Career paths – Guidance for growth

Using mentoring programmes to develop and retain your talent

Reward strategies - Intrinsic and extrinsic incentives to motive your talent

Managing expectations and delivering workable outcomes

Growth rotation development (assignments, experience strategies)

Creating a sustainable talent pipeline

DAY 5

Strategic Succession Planning and Organisational Capability Review

Defining your bench strength

Succession planning and the OCR process

Conducting effective calibration meetings

Formulating a strategic talent plan for the organization in-line with the business strategy

Communicating the strategy to the board and the company

Conclusion and review