Talent Management Principles

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Talent Management Overview

This document provides an overview of talent management looking at why the acquisition and retention of talent is such a major issue at the turn of the century, and what the best practice strategies are in the 'war for talent'.

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Is Talent a Main Priority?

This questionnaire is designed to help you assess how effective your organisation is at finding, developing and retaining talented people. Allow around 45 minutes completion.

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McKinsey and Co: the War for Talent

Written by renowned US consultants McKinsey and Co in 1998, 'The War for Talent' article sparked the modern interest in talent management. This article provides a detailed overview of their ideas.

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B Players’ Brand of Talent

B players have considerable influence on your organisation’s long-term performance. DeLong and Vijayaraghavan describe B players’ strengths, the four B player types and offer ways leaders can foster their brand of talent. Their views are summarised here.

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Goffee and Jones’ Cultural Model

Goffee and Jones presented a model that described how to keep an organisation together, and hence keep existing talent, by manipulating the organisational culture. The following is a summary of this model.

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The Three Cs Of Talent Management

Best known for his work on business partnering, David Ulrich is one of HR’s best known names. However, Ulrich also has ideas about how to manage and develop talent. Here we profile Ulrich’s Talent Trifecta, a new and simple model designed to help organisations assess and protect their most important talent resources.

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Talent Management Myths

People buy into many myths about workplace performance without giving them a second thought. Leadership expert Ken Nowack explodes some of them.

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Talent Management Skillbook

Learn how to promote a "talent mindset" in your organization, and find out how to develop and retain talented people in this one-hour Skillbook.

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Experts in Leadership Roles

What happens when an expert moves into a leadership role, and their specialist skills are no longer enough? In this video, Matt Bungay reveals the lessons he's learned about how experts become confident, capable leaders.