Talent

Management
Talent Management
 What is Talent Management?
• First interpretation of talent management relates to all HR
activities that help build competitiveness of an
organisation
• Talent management is the process of attracting,
developing, retaining and developing the best people
• The third interpretation is a broader approach and
includes efforts to create a ‘pipeline’ or pool of talented
people and ensuring that workforce development is
inclusive, accessible and focused on developing
organisational capabilities

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 Talent Management
 Imperatives for Talent Management
• Creating a winning employee
value proposition that will make
the company attractive to talent
• Moving beyond recruiting type
to build a long-term recruiting
strategy
• Using job experience, coaching
and mentoring to cultivate the
potential in managers
• Strengthening the talent pool by
investing in A players,
developing B players and acting
decisively on C players
• Developing a pervasive mindset
• Talent requires individual
ability and team work
• Technology facilitates talent
management processes and
connections among people
• Talent activities and their
outcomes need to be measured
• Talent will obsolesce faster
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 Talent Management

Talent Management Life Cycle

Source: Lance A. Berger and Dorothy R. Berger, Talent

Management Handbook, TMH, 2011, P. 507
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Talent Management

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 Career Development
 Career Development
Initiatives
• Career Planning
Workshops
• Career Counselling
• Mentoring
• Sabbaticals
• Secondments
• Personal Development
Plans (PDPs)
• Career workbooks

Career Development Activities

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Career Development
 Challenges of Career Development
• Laissez-faire attitude of the management
• The assumption that job rotation or an overseas
assignment is itself a developmental experience
• Making promotions or lateral moves that stretch the
person to the point of breaking
• Moving the high potential individual from one role to
another too quickly
• Some individuals are too ambitious, impatient and greedy

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Career Development
Career Management Process

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Career Development
 Models of Career Management
• Three models of career management are distinguished:
o Supported self-development
o Corporate career management
o Career partnership