Strategic Leadership Talent Management

Numerous studies have concluded that one of the scarcest corporate resources is leadership talent. On the same line, the one thing that always stands in the way of executing, even the best business strategy, is having a sufficient number of qualified people. A common conclusion is that the search for the best and the brightest is a constant, costly battle with no final victory. Furthermore, just looking at leadership roles is a too narrow view these days. You need to include specialist roles, too, as they are often an even scarcer resource.

However, as outlined in The Leadership Pipeline book there need not be a war for talent. The key to success is simply to tap into the potential that already exists and commit to growing leaders and supporting them in making their leadership transitions. Then there is often more than enough talent to go around.

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We support you in building a sustainable pipeline of talent by implementing an integrated talent acquisition and management approach

In order to support the sustainable growth of your organization, you need to grow a net flow of talent that equals the free cash flow of your company. Otherwise, you end up with a surplus of money to invest, but a shortage of talent to execute on the investments.

Impact

Enables the organization to project talent needs and build a pool of talent in a timely manner.
Increases the hit ratio on talents selected for talent programs
Strengthens the organization's ability to identify leadership talent at lower levels of the organization, with a cost effective approach.

Building Your Talent Factory

Envision the Following

Leaders in your organization were trained to assess talent based on people’s performance in their everyday job
Leaders considered it a critical part of their job to identify and nurture talent
A continuous performance review process where you can rely on the output in terms of performance and potential

This is what you can expect from using our learning and talent development approach toward talent management.

The Key to Success

The key to success is to start viewing your organization as a talent factory. Each job in your organization represents not only a job to produce and deliver the products and services that your clients request, but also a job that can develop a person.

Turning your organization into a talent factory requires a couple of different initiatives. But overall, it is about applying an integrated approach to talent management, where all the people tools and processes support the end game.

When all this is in place, you still need to develop a culture of discipline as regards the tools and processes.

How We Work With Organizations

There are different approaches to implementing a strategic talent management approach. Also, different organizations have different sweet spots for starting the implementation. We work with your organization on your terms and we start where it is most important for you to start. The scope of our role depends on what you need and the internal resources you have in place for the project. Our contribution would most often focus on.