Successful Organizations Must - Focus on Talent
Organizations can optimize their success by selecting, developing, and retaining the very best talent
Successful businesses everywhere are beginning to compete for top talent by implementing solid strategies to select, develop and retain the most talented employees. Leading business authors and researchers highlight the need for effective talent management:
"...if you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away." |
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Good to Great - Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don’t
(Collins 2001) |
"Talent - and only talent - should be a significant basis for hiring, selecting, and deploying employees, rather than just factual information or expertise... Many organizations believe that talent is scarce, a rare, precious resource that comes along all too infrequently. Great organizations know that talent is an abundant resource waiting to be tapped." |
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Follow This Path - How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential
(Coffman and Gonzalez-Molina – The Gallup Organization 2002). |
When we talk about talent in the workplace, what do we mean? We mean a person's recurring pattern of personal skills, behaviors and motivators that can be productively applied to achieve business goals. Talent is found in PEOPLE and is demonstrated at work through superior job performance.
Do you know which specific talents are essential for your KEY JOBS?
Do you know and consistently apply RELIABLE METHODOLOGIES and DIAGNOSTICS for hiring top talent?
Most businesses have been operating in survival mode over the last several years and have placed little focus on talent management. Under pressure from an unpredictable marketplace, they have faced customer demands for MORE results in exchange for LESS payback. In turn, they have demanded MORE from their employees in return for LESS. Downsizing, layoffs, mergers, and job obsolescence have depleted and demoralized human talent at work. These are the harsh realities we live with as the global economy continues to evolve.
The focus in business today must turn to talent. Why? Because the key resource in producing Knowledge Economy goods and services is the talent within your employees. The good news is there is NO SHORTAGE of human talent! In fact, much of the talent your organization needs to succeed may already be working for you... but it may be underutilized, under motivated, and perhaps mismatched to the wrong jobs.
NOT selecting the right talent for the job can result in a huge penalty for the entire business. Research from McKinsey's "War for Talent 2000" survey showed that: Top performers achieve 40-67% MORE value (measured in productivity, profits and revenue) than average performers. Investing in methodologies and tools that quantify talent makes bottom-line sense for businesses.
Talent is the unlimited resource that fuels performance power in the Knowledge Economy. Through the application of proven methodologies and validated diagnostic tools, organizations can identify the talents needed to optimize business success.
In today's business environment, talent reigns supreme at work! Does your company have a solid, integrated strategy for talent management?
We can assist you in defining your organization's
unique needs for talent.
Find out how we can help your organization enhance talent management! |
