Talent Management

Who will benefit: Managers, Leaders and Supervisors

Objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Define talent management
  

• Recognize talent in your team members
  

• Motivate and stretch individuals using a range of developmental opportunities
  

• Develop a planned strategy to manage and grow talent

Course Outline

What is Talent Management?

• Recognizing talent and untapped potential within your team
  

• The link with succession planning
  

• What do talented staff look like
  

• What happens to talent that is not nurtured and encouraged?
  

• Ways of Developing Talent
  

• The importance of providing 'stretch' and challenge
  

• Coaching and mentoring
  

• Delegating routine tasks and special projects
  

• Developing the star's role as a coach within the team
  

• Arranging secondments to other departments to extend their knowledge and abilities

Motivation - the Vital Ingredient

• Motivating individuals
  

• Providing opportunities for personal growth
  

• Obstacles to employee motivation

Development - A Planned Approach

• Agreeing an ultimate purpose
  

• Clarifying the knowledge, skills and experience your team member needs
  

• The importance of specific targets
  

• Setting a timescale
  

• Allowing the employee to take controlled tasks
  

• Adapting the plan to the 'real world' of moving goalposts and changing proprities

Monitoring Progress

• Checkpoints and reviews
  

• Handling questions
  

• Developing observation skills
  

• Providing reassurance when your 'star' fails in a task

Action Planning

• Participants plan and discuss what they will do on return to work