The document discusses managing on-demand talent or "agile talent". It finds that over half of executives are increasing their use of outside expertise sourced globally. While cost is a factor, flexibility, speed and innovation are the primary benefits. Organizations take one of three approaches to agile talent: as an exception, strategic augmentation, or a total workforce strategy. The strategic augmentation approach, where agile talent extends strategic capabilities, is most common among top organizations. Managing agile talent effectively requires building talent networks, onboarding talent quickly, managing politics, treating talent as partners, developing talent, getting feedback, and nudging systems to reduce friction.
On October 21, 2015, Tom Haak of the HR Trend Institute gave a keynote at the Excellence in Talent Management seminar organised by Teneo in Brussels. These are the slides he used.
Building a game changing talent strategy zia ul mustafaZia Mustafa
This document discusses the talent strategies of three game-changing companies - BlackRock, Envision Energy, and Tata Group. It finds that they all have talent strategies that are purpose-driven, performance-oriented, and principles-led. Their strategies support and drive their business strategies. Commitment from top leadership and a focus on developing a high-performance culture of collective purpose and respect for individuals are key aspects of their talent strategies.
A description of the 2015 business environment and the need for value creation through people.
Perceptions on HR and its priorities
Emerging models of HR
A HR strategy approach.
www.mantle.co.nz
The document discusses the "War for Talent" and retaining top talent in organizations. It notes that globalization, new workforce expectations, and outdated HR systems have made retaining talent more challenging. Research shows high turnover rates for top performers and a need to better engage employees through opportunities aligned with their strengths. To deal with exceptional talent, organizations need more imaginative hiring practices, better talent retention strategies, and leaders who can develop social and technical skills across networks rather than just focusing on individuals. Seeing talent development from a network perspective that builds social capital will be important for innovation in increasingly connected work environments.
The document discusses McKinsey & Company's research on "the war for talent" - the phenomenon of increased competition among companies for highly skilled workers. It finds that having strong talent is now critical for business success given the knowledge-based economy. However, attracting and retaining talent is also becoming more difficult. The war for talent will persist for decades due to demographic trends reducing the future supply of managerial talent. While most companies recognize winning this war is important, few feel prepared to strengthen their talent pools. The document outlines five imperatives that top performing companies follow: instilling a talent mindset, creating an attractive employee value proposition, continuously recruiting talent, growing great leaders, and differentiating and affirming employees. It urges
This white paper discusses talent management strategies and succession planning. It defines talent management as attracting, developing, and retaining skilled employees. However, most organizations do not have effective talent management strategies in place. The paper recommends that organizations define talent based on their unique needs and align talent management with business objectives. It also suggests that traditional "pipeline" approaches to succession planning may not work in today's changing workplace, and that organizations should focus on developing all employees, not just high potentials, to build a talented workforce.
On October 21, 2015, Tom Haak of the HR Trend Institute gave a keynote at the Excellence in Talent Management seminar organised by Teneo in Brussels. These are the slides he used.
Building a game changing talent strategy zia ul mustafaZia Mustafa
This document discusses the talent strategies of three game-changing companies - BlackRock, Envision Energy, and Tata Group. It finds that they all have talent strategies that are purpose-driven, performance-oriented, and principles-led. Their strategies support and drive their business strategies. Commitment from top leadership and a focus on developing a high-performance culture of collective purpose and respect for individuals are key aspects of their talent strategies.
A description of the 2015 business environment and the need for value creation through people.
Perceptions on HR and its priorities
Emerging models of HR
A HR strategy approach.
www.mantle.co.nz
The document discusses the "War for Talent" and retaining top talent in organizations. It notes that globalization, new workforce expectations, and outdated HR systems have made retaining talent more challenging. Research shows high turnover rates for top performers and a need to better engage employees through opportunities aligned with their strengths. To deal with exceptional talent, organizations need more imaginative hiring practices, better talent retention strategies, and leaders who can develop social and technical skills across networks rather than just focusing on individuals. Seeing talent development from a network perspective that builds social capital will be important for innovation in increasingly connected work environments.
The document discusses McKinsey & Company's research on "the war for talent" - the phenomenon of increased competition among companies for highly skilled workers. It finds that having strong talent is now critical for business success given the knowledge-based economy. However, attracting and retaining talent is also becoming more difficult. The war for talent will persist for decades due to demographic trends reducing the future supply of managerial talent. While most companies recognize winning this war is important, few feel prepared to strengthen their talent pools. The document outlines five imperatives that top performing companies follow: instilling a talent mindset, creating an attractive employee value proposition, continuously recruiting talent, growing great leaders, and differentiating and affirming employees. It urges
This white paper discusses talent management strategies and succession planning. It defines talent management as attracting, developing, and retaining skilled employees. However, most organizations do not have effective talent management strategies in place. The paper recommends that organizations define talent based on their unique needs and align talent management with business objectives. It also suggests that traditional "pipeline" approaches to succession planning may not work in today's changing workplace, and that organizations should focus on developing all employees, not just high potentials, to build a talented workforce.
Hr 8 mistakes made in succession planning and how to fix themMarcus Vannini
The document discusses 8 common mistakes made in succession planning and how to fix them. It provides case studies of companies that made these mistakes, such as assuming succession planning is only an HR program, trying to do too much too fast, and failing to sustain succession planning efforts over time. The key mistakes are not having senior leadership buy-in, lack of flexibility, taking on too much at once, lack of individual development plans, and not maintaining succession planning as an ongoing process.
Agility & Talent Mobility how to enable business strategy with modern perform...Human Capital Media
Dimension Data shifted its business strategy from a focus on hardware and infrastructure to digital services and solutions. To enable this new strategy and increase agility, Dimension Data took several steps:
1) It mapped existing jobs and established core competencies for technical employees.
2) It developed a competency framework to provide clarity on skills and careers.
3) It linked the competency framework to an online careers portal for employees to self-populate profiles and explore development opportunities.
This allowed Dimension Data to better understand and develop its workforce's skills to support the new business strategy.
Due to skill-shortages the world is in a war for talent. Companies and countries alike want to attract, develop and keep the most talented individuals. This is a trend OPRA first commented on back in 2007. While the situation has only gotten worse since then, the messages in this presentation are as poignant as ever.
The document discusses the importance of developing a talent management strategy. It provides an overview of Knowledge Infusion, a consulting firm, and their services in talent management. The presentation covers key elements of an effective talent management strategy, including having a business or employee focus, defining talent demand and supply, the talent planning process, promoting talent mobility, and using metrics to measure strategy outcomes. Executing the strategy requires integrating people, processes, and technology to transform talent management from an HR function into a business-driven capability.
Foster Wheeler, a global engineering and construction company, recognized the need for a consistent approach to developing leadership talent worldwide. They partnered with DDI to design customized assessments for senior leaders and launched Learning to Lead, a frontline leadership program using DDI's Interaction Management courses. Delivered globally by internal facilitators, Learning to Lead improved leadership skills and behaviors for over 1,500 leaders, as shown in surveys. Senior leader support helped reinforce the new skills and make leadership development a business priority. The flexible, locally-implemented approach ensured relevance across business units.
McKinsey on Organization CHROs and talent managementPeter Allen
This document discusses the future of performance management in organizations. It begins by noting that traditional annual performance evaluations are widely disliked but still commonly used. It then outlines some emerging trends in how top companies are rethinking performance management, such as focusing only on top and low performers rather than trying to differentiate average ones, providing continuous feedback instead of annual reviews, and basing compensation more on team performance and skills development than individual ratings. The document suggests the changes signal performance management practices are overdue for an update to better suit modern job roles and business needs.
Commentators are currently polarised around the future of the HR function. Some suggest that the function is about to enter a boom period as after several years of cajoling, organisations are placing far greater emphasis on talent management and putting strategic HR activities at the heart of the business. On the other hand, others believe that HR is still struggling to rise to the challenge and is destined to remain a transaction based cost centre for the foreseeable future. As with most things, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. This article explores the evidence for both perspectives and suggests that solving apparently intangible human capital problems is the best way for HR to profit given current circumstances.
The survey of over 4,200 executives from more than 100 countries identified managing talent, improving leadership development, and strategic workforce planning as the most critical people management topics. Managing talent topped the list due to growing concerns over talent shortages. Improving leadership development was also considered very important given the need to develop future leaders. Strategic workforce planning remained a priority as companies struggle to forecast long-term workforce supply and demand in volatile market conditions.
Interviewed by Kennedy Consulting Research and Advisory ServicesUzma S. Burki
Uzma Burki, Senior Vice President at Amtrak and founder of Altvia Consulting, believes that the challenge with talent management is often a lack of will from executives to actively sponsor and be involved in the talent agenda. She transformed talent management at Amtrak by developing a human capital strategic plan directly aligned with Amtrak's business strategy to address issues like losing talent, aging leadership, and lack of performance alignment. This included initiatives to improve hiring, development, culture, rewards, and workforce planning. While technology can help measure talent outcomes, organizations must first ensure aligned business processes and have talent roadmaps to give data purpose.
By 2020, global talent mobility will significantly increase due to growing emerging markets and global connectivity. Demand for international assignments will rise 50% by 2020 as companies seek to deploy talent worldwide. Mobility patterns will shift as emerging markets become talent sources and destinations within their own regions. Changing demographics like retiring baby boomers and rising millennials will require new global talent strategies that make greater use of short-term assignments, virtual tools, and accommodate different generations' needs. Regulations and technologies will also need to evolve to support increased cross-border movement of people for business.
This document outlines nine best practices for effective talent management. It discusses how talent management has become a critical organizational function and competitive advantage. Organizations must identify talent gaps, develop a talent management plan integrated with business strategies, and ensure accurate hiring, promotion, performance management, and development. Effective talent management leads to higher business performance, earnings, and financial outcomes. It is driven by factors such as changing employee and demographic trends, increasing complexity, and expectations from boards and investors for leadership to create value through talent.
The document describes the SHRM India Knowledge Center, which brings together expertise across all aspects of HR. It provides resources to support and advance the HR profession, including a bank of over 50 subject matter experts, HR advisors, tools/templates, virtual events, and research papers. The goal is to equip HR professionals with knowledge and best practices to address current and future workplace challenges.
This document discusses research on talent management and the war for talent. It finds that talent matters greatly for company performance, yet most companies are ill-prepared for this war for talent. While past approaches to talent management worked in the past, new strategies are needed for the future. The best companies view talent management as a top priority, instill a talent mindset throughout the organization, develop talent through diverse jobs and feedback, and work to retain their top performers.
The Home Team Advantage: Achieving Results With Talent MobilityHuman Capital Media
Organizations that embrace a systematic talent mobility strategy significantly outperform their peers. Bersin by Deloitte defines talent mobility as “a dynamic internal process for moving talent from role to role — at the leadership, professional and operational levels,” and a Bersin report states that “the ability to move talent to where it is needed and by when it is needed will be essential for building an adaptable and enduring organization.”
Join Bobby Morris, talent solutions strategist at SumTotal Systems, as he discusses how several large global organizations achieved the benefits of talent mobility, including:
The key elements of successful talent mobility programs.
Key process requirements your business should embrace to have an effective talent mobility solution.
How integrated talent technology can help your business create a successful talent mobility solution.
How to get started today, and the results your organization can expect.
Total talent management is key for HR leadershipsaraseeni
This document discusses total talent management as key for HR leadership. It covers the following main points:
1. Key elements of talent management include strategic workforce planning, total talent acquisition, employee development, performance management, and succession planning.
2. Global workforce trends like globalization, changing demographics, and new technologies are impacting how companies manage their talent. This is changing the role of HR to focus more on total talent management.
3. Contingent workers can provide value to companies through expertise, control, and compliance. Partnering with contingent workforce providers allows for improved management of this talent pool.
4. Companies progress through different levels of maturity in managing their contingent workforce, from decentralized to having
Transformational HR Leadership Thinking : Creating a High Performing Organisa...Jayesh Menon
The 5th Annual HR Agenda 2016: Looking Ahead Singapore, 22-24th August. Organizers: Marcus Evans.
Good range of speakers and participants from across the world. since my slides dont have much content , please contact in case you need any particular info.
Throughout the book, the authors provide practical insights into the following three pillars of digital transformations that successfully scale:
• Reinventing the business model
• Building out a business architecture from the customer back into the organization
• Establishing an 'amoeba' IT and organizational foundation that learns and evolves
The learnings from this book are:
• How to build a 3-stage structure to help prioritize strategic and operational challenges that will digitize the organization.
• To understand the roles and importance of new technological positions, such as the Information Technology function and CDO.
• To set digital milestones to track the progress on the transformation of the organization – towards digital transformation & Digital culture.
• To rethink traditional business architecture while redesigning the agile organization.
The book is a useful guide for all leaders who recognize the power and promise of a digital transformation - who want to avoid being steered by 3rd parties - and chart their own course in the digital economy
How to Build and Maintain a Premier OrganizationLucas Group
An important trend facing organizations across all industries is bridging the knowledge gap between outgoing employees and those who remain or are hired to fulfill their work. Despite a stubbornly persistent unemployment rate in the U.S., attracting and retaining people who can positively impact your company remains a considerable challenge to building and maintaining a premier organization. Triggered by Baby Boomer retirements, companies must develop systematic ways to attract the best, retain the best, and hold on to the knowledge that the best contribute to their organizations.
1) Getting talent on the right track requires a long term talent strategy rather than quick fixes, which can perpetuate a cycle of catching one's own tail.
2) Building a robust talent bench through a 5+ year strategy that identifies critical capabilities and allows flexibility is key to absorbing short term issues.
3) Developing a talent culture through leadership commitment, measurement, and forums for discussing talent can help ensure the right people are identified and developed for key roles.
Hr 8 mistakes made in succession planning and how to fix themMarcus Vannini
The document discusses 8 common mistakes made in succession planning and how to fix them. It provides case studies of companies that made these mistakes, such as assuming succession planning is only an HR program, trying to do too much too fast, and failing to sustain succession planning efforts over time. The key mistakes are not having senior leadership buy-in, lack of flexibility, taking on too much at once, lack of individual development plans, and not maintaining succession planning as an ongoing process.
Agility & Talent Mobility how to enable business strategy with modern perform...Human Capital Media
Dimension Data shifted its business strategy from a focus on hardware and infrastructure to digital services and solutions. To enable this new strategy and increase agility, Dimension Data took several steps:
1) It mapped existing jobs and established core competencies for technical employees.
2) It developed a competency framework to provide clarity on skills and careers.
3) It linked the competency framework to an online careers portal for employees to self-populate profiles and explore development opportunities.
This allowed Dimension Data to better understand and develop its workforce's skills to support the new business strategy.
Due to skill-shortages the world is in a war for talent. Companies and countries alike want to attract, develop and keep the most talented individuals. This is a trend OPRA first commented on back in 2007. While the situation has only gotten worse since then, the messages in this presentation are as poignant as ever.
The document discusses the importance of developing a talent management strategy. It provides an overview of Knowledge Infusion, a consulting firm, and their services in talent management. The presentation covers key elements of an effective talent management strategy, including having a business or employee focus, defining talent demand and supply, the talent planning process, promoting talent mobility, and using metrics to measure strategy outcomes. Executing the strategy requires integrating people, processes, and technology to transform talent management from an HR function into a business-driven capability.
Foster Wheeler, a global engineering and construction company, recognized the need for a consistent approach to developing leadership talent worldwide. They partnered with DDI to design customized assessments for senior leaders and launched Learning to Lead, a frontline leadership program using DDI's Interaction Management courses. Delivered globally by internal facilitators, Learning to Lead improved leadership skills and behaviors for over 1,500 leaders, as shown in surveys. Senior leader support helped reinforce the new skills and make leadership development a business priority. The flexible, locally-implemented approach ensured relevance across business units.
McKinsey on Organization CHROs and talent managementPeter Allen
This document discusses the future of performance management in organizations. It begins by noting that traditional annual performance evaluations are widely disliked but still commonly used. It then outlines some emerging trends in how top companies are rethinking performance management, such as focusing only on top and low performers rather than trying to differentiate average ones, providing continuous feedback instead of annual reviews, and basing compensation more on team performance and skills development than individual ratings. The document suggests the changes signal performance management practices are overdue for an update to better suit modern job roles and business needs.
Commentators are currently polarised around the future of the HR function. Some suggest that the function is about to enter a boom period as after several years of cajoling, organisations are placing far greater emphasis on talent management and putting strategic HR activities at the heart of the business. On the other hand, others believe that HR is still struggling to rise to the challenge and is destined to remain a transaction based cost centre for the foreseeable future. As with most things, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. This article explores the evidence for both perspectives and suggests that solving apparently intangible human capital problems is the best way for HR to profit given current circumstances.
The survey of over 4,200 executives from more than 100 countries identified managing talent, improving leadership development, and strategic workforce planning as the most critical people management topics. Managing talent topped the list due to growing concerns over talent shortages. Improving leadership development was also considered very important given the need to develop future leaders. Strategic workforce planning remained a priority as companies struggle to forecast long-term workforce supply and demand in volatile market conditions.
Interviewed by Kennedy Consulting Research and Advisory ServicesUzma S. Burki
Uzma Burki, Senior Vice President at Amtrak and founder of Altvia Consulting, believes that the challenge with talent management is often a lack of will from executives to actively sponsor and be involved in the talent agenda. She transformed talent management at Amtrak by developing a human capital strategic plan directly aligned with Amtrak's business strategy to address issues like losing talent, aging leadership, and lack of performance alignment. This included initiatives to improve hiring, development, culture, rewards, and workforce planning. While technology can help measure talent outcomes, organizations must first ensure aligned business processes and have talent roadmaps to give data purpose.
By 2020, global talent mobility will significantly increase due to growing emerging markets and global connectivity. Demand for international assignments will rise 50% by 2020 as companies seek to deploy talent worldwide. Mobility patterns will shift as emerging markets become talent sources and destinations within their own regions. Changing demographics like retiring baby boomers and rising millennials will require new global talent strategies that make greater use of short-term assignments, virtual tools, and accommodate different generations' needs. Regulations and technologies will also need to evolve to support increased cross-border movement of people for business.
This document outlines nine best practices for effective talent management. It discusses how talent management has become a critical organizational function and competitive advantage. Organizations must identify talent gaps, develop a talent management plan integrated with business strategies, and ensure accurate hiring, promotion, performance management, and development. Effective talent management leads to higher business performance, earnings, and financial outcomes. It is driven by factors such as changing employee and demographic trends, increasing complexity, and expectations from boards and investors for leadership to create value through talent.
The document describes the SHRM India Knowledge Center, which brings together expertise across all aspects of HR. It provides resources to support and advance the HR profession, including a bank of over 50 subject matter experts, HR advisors, tools/templates, virtual events, and research papers. The goal is to equip HR professionals with knowledge and best practices to address current and future workplace challenges.
This document discusses research on talent management and the war for talent. It finds that talent matters greatly for company performance, yet most companies are ill-prepared for this war for talent. While past approaches to talent management worked in the past, new strategies are needed for the future. The best companies view talent management as a top priority, instill a talent mindset throughout the organization, develop talent through diverse jobs and feedback, and work to retain their top performers.
The Home Team Advantage: Achieving Results With Talent MobilityHuman Capital Media
Organizations that embrace a systematic talent mobility strategy significantly outperform their peers. Bersin by Deloitte defines talent mobility as “a dynamic internal process for moving talent from role to role — at the leadership, professional and operational levels,” and a Bersin report states that “the ability to move talent to where it is needed and by when it is needed will be essential for building an adaptable and enduring organization.”
Join Bobby Morris, talent solutions strategist at SumTotal Systems, as he discusses how several large global organizations achieved the benefits of talent mobility, including:
The key elements of successful talent mobility programs.
Key process requirements your business should embrace to have an effective talent mobility solution.
How integrated talent technology can help your business create a successful talent mobility solution.
How to get started today, and the results your organization can expect.
Total talent management is key for HR leadershipsaraseeni
This document discusses total talent management as key for HR leadership. It covers the following main points:
1. Key elements of talent management include strategic workforce planning, total talent acquisition, employee development, performance management, and succession planning.
2. Global workforce trends like globalization, changing demographics, and new technologies are impacting how companies manage their talent. This is changing the role of HR to focus more on total talent management.
3. Contingent workers can provide value to companies through expertise, control, and compliance. Partnering with contingent workforce providers allows for improved management of this talent pool.
4. Companies progress through different levels of maturity in managing their contingent workforce, from decentralized to having
Transformational HR Leadership Thinking : Creating a High Performing Organisa...Jayesh Menon
The 5th Annual HR Agenda 2016: Looking Ahead Singapore, 22-24th August. Organizers: Marcus Evans.
Good range of speakers and participants from across the world. since my slides dont have much content , please contact in case you need any particular info.
Throughout the book, the authors provide practical insights into the following three pillars of digital transformations that successfully scale:
• Reinventing the business model
• Building out a business architecture from the customer back into the organization
• Establishing an 'amoeba' IT and organizational foundation that learns and evolves
The learnings from this book are:
• How to build a 3-stage structure to help prioritize strategic and operational challenges that will digitize the organization.
• To understand the roles and importance of new technological positions, such as the Information Technology function and CDO.
• To set digital milestones to track the progress on the transformation of the organization – towards digital transformation & Digital culture.
• To rethink traditional business architecture while redesigning the agile organization.
The book is a useful guide for all leaders who recognize the power and promise of a digital transformation - who want to avoid being steered by 3rd parties - and chart their own course in the digital economy
How to Build and Maintain a Premier OrganizationLucas Group
An important trend facing organizations across all industries is bridging the knowledge gap between outgoing employees and those who remain or are hired to fulfill their work. Despite a stubbornly persistent unemployment rate in the U.S., attracting and retaining people who can positively impact your company remains a considerable challenge to building and maintaining a premier organization. Triggered by Baby Boomer retirements, companies must develop systematic ways to attract the best, retain the best, and hold on to the knowledge that the best contribute to their organizations.
1) Getting talent on the right track requires a long term talent strategy rather than quick fixes, which can perpetuate a cycle of catching one's own tail.
2) Building a robust talent bench through a 5+ year strategy that identifies critical capabilities and allows flexibility is key to absorbing short term issues.
3) Developing a talent culture through leadership commitment, measurement, and forums for discussing talent can help ensure the right people are identified and developed for key roles.
Reinventing your leadership team involves assessing and updating the composition, structure, and practices of your organization's top leaders to drive growth, innovation, and success. This can involve a variety of changes, such as reorganizing departments, adding new leaders with diverse skill sets, or updating the company's leadership philosophy. Here are some steps to help you reinvent your leadership team:
Assess Current Performance: Take an objective look at your current leadership team and identify areas for improvement. Consider factors such as communication, collaboration, and decision-making processes.
Define Your Goals: Clearly define what you want to achieve through the reinvention process. Consider your company's mission, goals, and values, and align your leadership team accordingly.
Evaluate Skillsets: Evaluate the skillsets of your current leaders and identify any gaps that need to be filled. Consider bringing in new leaders with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to help drive innovation and growth.
Foster Collaboration: Encourage collaboration and teamwork among your leadership team. Foster open communication, encourage idea sharing, and provide opportunities for cross-functional problem-solving.
Foster a Culture of Learning: Encourage continuous learning and development for your leadership team. Provide opportunities for professional development, coaching, and mentorship to help leaders stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices.
By taking these steps, you can successfully reinvent your leadership team and drive long-term success for your organization.
This document outlines emerging roles in recruiting that provide opportunities for career growth beyond traditional recruiting roles. It describes several new roles including Director of Recruiting Strategy who ensures recruiting maintains a competitive advantage; Director of Recruiting Programs and Program Managers who strategize and oversee recruiting initiatives; and Talent Acquisition/Marketing Manager who shapes employer brand perceptions. These roles demonstrate recruiting is becoming more strategic, technology-centric, and brand-focused.
This document discusses talent management strategies for organizations. It defines talent management as the process of recruiting, developing, and retaining an organization's most important asset - its people. The document outlines five rules for effective talent management: 1) Invest differently in talent segments to optimize results 2) Measure programs' business impact 3) Let numbers drive talent decisions 4) Build adaptable skills 5) Simplify performance management. It emphasizes aligning talent strategies with business goals and using data-driven approaches. Effective talent management is important for organizational success, especially during economic changes.
The document discusses 10 HR trends that are changing business, including:
1) The changing role of HR professionals to focus more on strategic contributions and measurable impacts rather than administrative tasks.
2) The "war for talent" as skilled workers become more scarce, requiring innovative talent strategies, employer branding, and focusing on attracting and retaining top performers.
3) The increasing outsourcing of HR functions to reduce costs and allow HR to focus on strategic priorities rather than transactional work.
This document provides a summary of key concepts from a CTO/CIO handbook for leading organizations and working with millennials. It discusses creating three pillars (OCM, PMO, SGO) to support the CTO vision. It emphasizes harvesting talent through competency tracking, talent rotation, and insourcing/outsourcing decisions. It also discusses mitigating fear of failure through risk mitigation, failing safely and iteratively in agile models, and reducing manual errors through automation.
Right Quarterly 2nd quarter 2013: Career DevelopmentChris Jones
This document summarizes a client success story where Right Management helped a large Australian financial institution implement a career development initiative for employees. The financial institution was working towards its 2017 workforce plan, which would change the working environment for one of its divisions.
Right Management created and implemented a career development program to help employees adapt to this change. The program aimed to build coaching capabilities in people leaders and equip employees with skills to make their own career decisions. It also sought to align employee development with future corporate needs while developing career agility. The initiative included creating an online career portal and conducting career conversations between managers and employees.
This document summarizes a research paper on the most critical HR capabilities and competencies needed for the future. It identifies four key areas: business acumen, organizational leadership and navigation, change management, and HR technology and analytics. For each area, it discusses importance, how companies can develop best practices, and organizational case studies. It concludes that today's business environment demands HR professionals who can lead at all levels through knowledge of business and providing integrated HR solutions to key issues.
Right Quarterly 2nd edition 2014: Succession PlanningChris Jones
This document provides an overview of ManpowerGroup, a global staffing firm. Some key details include:
- ManpowerGroup has nearly 3,100 offices in 80 countries and places over 30,000 employees in permanent roles annually.
- In 2013, it interviewed 12 million people, connected 3.4 million to work, and had over 600,000 associates on assignment daily.
- It generates over 85% of its $20.3 billion in annual revenue from outside the United States.
- ManpowerGroup aims to be a global leader in recruitment, outsourcing, workforce solutions, and talent development.
The document outlines a new High-Impact HR Operating Model that aims to position HR to play a more strategic role in driving business performance. The model moves HR away from just service delivery and toward advising business leaders, driving culture and talent strategies. It emphasizes coordination within HR and between HR and the business. Key components of the model include business HR resources embedded in business units, communities of expertise providing guidance, and operational services handling transactions. The roles and interactions between these components are designed to make HR more nimble and connected to business priorities and the external environment. Implementing this new model requires changes to HR roles, competencies, technology, and mindsets within both HR and the business.
Essential Guide to Employee Onboarding SuccessAndrewCrebar
The Essential Guide to Employee Onboarding Success is for HR, People leaders and anyone looking to take their employee success to the next level.
It is a quick but detailed read on how you can use Employee Onboarding to Amplify your Employee Experience.
You'll learn:
1. What is 'EX' Management?
2. Why invest in 'EX'?
3. Why Onboarding is foundation of 'EX'?
4. What to consider in buying vs building a solution?
5. How to evaluate onboarding solutions?
Humans can often be complicated, thorny and messy - but those qualities make the magic happen.
By creating the right process and frameworks for getting your people confident, happy and productive - you can help build and support long-term employee success.
The document discusses the skills needed for project managers to thrive in disruptive times of technological change. It finds that the top six digital skills identified by HR professionals at innovative organizations are: data science, an innovative mindset, security and privacy knowledge, legal/regulatory compliance knowledge, ability to make data-driven decisions, and collaborative leadership. While these skills were ranked highly, the document notes that customer focus and change management skills could also be important for digital transformation. Overall, the document examines how organizations can best develop their project talent to manage disruptive technologies through skills training, tools/approaches, and culture.
Right Quarterly By Right Management ( Succession planning for talent management)Right Management India
In this edition we explore the subject of Succession planning for talent management. Succession Planning encompasses identifying the right successors to take over critical roles, building leadership capability in the successors to succeed and also empowering them to take the organization forward.
What keeps CEOs up at night?
“Leadership”, answered the President of one of India’s largest business conglomerates recently. “Do we have the right skills and capabilities to pull our strategy off,” reported a Global 500 CEO. “I worry that the current management team will not be able to take us where we need to go to next,” answered a third corporate leader.
Most CEO’s are satisfied with their strategies. Many are less satisfied with their performance. This Executive Insight Thought Leader centers on the imperative of leadership capability development as a business priority.
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This document discusses strategic human resource management and effective recruitment practices. It begins by explaining that human resource management involves planning, attracting, developing and retaining an effective workforce, as people are an organization's most important asset. It then discusses how companies like Google attract top talent through competitive benefits and a focus on employee happiness. Finally, it covers the importance of strategic human resource planning, which involves understanding current employee needs through job analysis and descriptions, and predicting future needs based on an organization's strategic plan and available labor pools. The goal is to recruit and select the right people to help achieve organizational goals.
CHAPTER 2
BUILDING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE THROUGH
INTEGRATED TALENT MANAGEMENT
Marcia J. Avedon, Gillian Scholes
The business world is more dynamic today than ever before with an
accelerating pace of new technologies, increasing globalization of markets
and competition, changing regulatory requirements, and increasingly
commonplace mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. In this tumultuous
environment, organizations must continually renew their organizational
capability to achieve competitive advantage. However, it is increasingly
challenging to find the talent needed to compete in this dynamic business
environment.
The availability of educated, working-age talent is shrinking in many of
the world’s labor markets (Zolli, 2007). Multinational companies are
moving work to developing lower-cost countries, only to find the talent
wars and wages subsequently escalating in those countries (Qihan &
Denmat, 2006). Skilled leaders and other professionals, with the
capabilities to enter new markets, create new business models, and
innovate new technologies, are highly sought after (Michaels, Handfield-
Jones, & Axelrod, 2001). Consequently, the demand for talent is
outstripping the supply. As a result, top performers in key talent pools
typically have multiple employment opportunities at any point in time. In
addition, senior leaders, including CEOs, are in their jobs for shorter
periods of time (Lucier, Kocourek, & Habbel, 2006), and employees
generally no longer expect lifetime employment with one company.
Leadership and employee development, through experience and
education, still takes considerable time and effort and will never be a
quick fix. This set of complex, changing business and talent realities
creates the imperative for companies to focus on talent in a strategic,
systemic, and customized manner.
The ability for a firm to create an integrated system that yields a continual
flow of talent ready to address specific strategic and operational
opportunities may be the single-most enduring competitive advantage.
While organizations often find that their strategies, products, services, or
markets require change, the need to have relevant, differentiated talent to
achieve these business goals remains constant. However, the specific
talent strategies need to adapt accordingly. Several recent surveys of both
chief executive officers and chief human resource officers confirm that
attracting, developing, and retaining talent is a top concern (Donlon,
2007; HR Policy Association, 2007). One CEO identified the point well
(Donlon, 2007): “We are the most highly regulated industry in the world,
and we have the most compliance issues in the world. So, those are risks,
but our single biggest issue is human capital. We are losing it really fast
and that is really scary.”
This chapter provides definitions, models, and examples for creating a
dynamic, customized, and integrated talent management system. We do
not .
This document discusses innovative HR practices. It begins by explaining how innovative practices build competencies, capabilities, and foster innovation. It then discusses the need for HR practices to change with trends like increased competition and technological change. It also covers topics like employee motivation, individual innovativeness, organizational citizenship behavior, and the role of the HR leader in bringing innovative ideas and practices to help develop employees and lead the organization successfully.
1. TALENT MANAGEMENT
Managing On-Demand Talent
by Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood
JANUARY 28, 2016
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To stay nimble and competitive, many organizations today rely on expert talent sourced from anywhere in the world, in a variety of ways that fall outside the
traditional employment model. The globalization of talent and technology frees up companies to experiment with new ways of filling critical skill gaps while
staying lean. We call this phenomenon agile talent.
Our research, which is the basis for our new book Agile Talent, found that over half executives report increasing their use of outside expertise and sourcing
talent from “the cloud.” While cost is clearly a consideration, managers describe the primary benefits of agile talent as increasing flexibility, speed, and
innovation. In short: it’s better, not cheaper.
While agile talent can be a game changer for organizations, it’s not a panacea. Nor is there a single common model for managing it. In our work, we’ve found
that organizations seem to take one of three paths: agile talent as the exception (a mostly traditional workforce of full-time employees with limited use of
“cloud resourcing”); as strategic augmentation (an increased use of agile talent, particularly to fulfill fast-changing strategic capabilities); and as a total
workforce strategy (a transformational approach characterized by employing a mostly agile workforce).
The middle path, the model emphasizing strategic augmentation, is the one that particularly interests us and that we increasingly see used in top
organizations. Few companies are shifting in the direction of agile talent as a total workforce strategy, at least currently. But in a recent series of workshops
with line managers and HR executives, over half the people described their organizations as moving slowly but inexorably toward employing agile talent to
extend their capabilities in fast-moving strategic areas — for example, Apple in design, Rolls-Royce Aerospace in engineering, and Workday in system
implementation.
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The decision to venture away from traditional staffing models and invest in
greater dependence on agile talent is, of course, made by senior management.
But effective implementation falls, not surprisingly, to middle managers. In
our work with organizations, we have found seven things managers do that set
up their external experts for success:
Build a talent network. The actor Rob Lowe once said it straight: “Ninety percent of moviemaking is casting.” Mid-level managers depending on Procurement
or Human Resources to find agile talent are behind the curve; smart middle managers tend to their network as a means of ensuring the right agile talent —
with the right technical skill and way of working — is hired. These managers are relationship builders who understand the importance of thinking ahead
about the skills required by their organization. They are attentive to their talent network and invest time and effort in expanding it and keeping it up to date.
Kickstart the work and relationships. Good managers know that external hires need an onboarding experience that lets the work start fast and strong: clear
goals, well-defined schedules and milestones, agreement on performance expectations, and early investment in agile working relationships with internal
colleagues. While thinking about onboarding talent that you don’t even “own” is counterintuitive, the likelihood of project success falls significantly when
agile talent operates without a clear understanding of the work and their role. In our research, only a third of executives describe their organization as
effective on this dimension.
Manage the politics. For traditional organizations, bringing on agile talent creates internal politics. Agile talent is a concern for many employees who wonder
whether their jobs are now at risk, and a worry for executives who wonder whether their role and influence will be diminished. Competent middle managers
know this and anticipate it, and are successful in finding ways to avoid creating winners and losers. For example, being clear that agile talent is a supplement,
not a replacement, for internal staff is critical, as is explaining to others in the organization the strategic benefits of agile talent — such as access to new
technology, speed, market discipline, and flexibility — rather than emphasizing any cost savings.
Think of talent as partners, not clients. Top expertise has never been more in demand. Good managers understand that outstanding external experts often
have their pick of opportunities. And recruiting/talent agency firms like 10X and TOPTAL offer the stronger technical experts a wide range of opportunity.
Middle managers need to establish a win/win partnership relationship with agile talent, one where both parties feel a stake in one another’s success. A recent
article, “Why an Ex-Google Coder Makes Twice as Much Freelancing,” makes clear that mission is just as important as money. Says one top coder, “We get
called to do mission-critical things that will make or lose the company a lot of money. It’s like you get a seat at the New York Philharmonic. Now every
performer is performing at their top level…”
Be a talent developer. Yes, managers of agile talent need to coach and invest in the development of their external experts. Good managers coach their
external talent to work effectively within the organization and provide ongoing feedback and respond to calls and emails in a timely manner. And managers
develop their own internal people by ensuring that top agile talent leaves behind some of their expertise through formal and informal training.
Ask for feedback from everyone affected by your agile talent decisions. It’s not enough for your team to hit its marks; it has to be committed to the success of
the teams it depends on and those that depend on it. That, in turn, means you have to be attentive and connected to those other teams and invest in building
those individual relationships. Closely related to this is the importance of after-action review: getting agile talent right depends on continuous improvement
in selecting the right talent, building the partnership, and figuring out how the work is planned, communicated, and executed.
Nudge the system toward better alignment. We say “nudge” rather than “steer” or “lead” because middle managers don’t have the license or authority to
drive big system changes. But they can nudge around the edges of the work system and drive helpful changes that reduce friction. A good manager in this
model of agile talent remembers Casey Stengel’s explanation of good baseball club management: “I try not to trip my players on their way out of the dugout.”
While the transformation of today’s workforce to a mostly agile one will take time, many more organizations are ramping up their use of “expertise on tap” in
order to acquire and master the capabilities they need to perform and grow. Managers who focus on the practices above will thrive and build teams that
outperform in the digital, connected world of talent.
Jon Youngeris Managing Partner of the Agile Talent Collaborative and the author of several books in HR and talent management, including Agile Talent (HBR Press, 2016).
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3. Norm Smallwoodis co-founder of The RBL Group, a strategic HR and leadership systems advisory firm, and the coauthor of several books including Agile Talent (HBR Press, 2016). He
is a partner in the Agile Talent Collaborative.
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Arnab Chatterjee 15 minutes ago
By implementing ‘agile talent’ does a company expose its lack of motivation in developing local talent? Before we begin to discuss whether this is a sustainable process, it is worth
looking at how this policy is structured. Typically the concept has two sides, exporting low cost tech expertise from emerging countries to developed countries (often displacing local
jobs, case in point - read Walt Disney’s case on NYT) and exporting high priced management expertise from developed countries to emerging countries (and ignoring to nurture local
management expertise?). Neither aspect is sustainable but yes they both have clear short-medium term benefits from a company’s perspective. It is exciting to create jargon around this
practice and prognosticate about its benefits but that does not change its futility in the longer term.
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