Talent Management

There is compelling evidence that businesses that manage their talent effectively achieve greater employee engagement and significantly improve their results.

"80% of top executives believe that attracting and retaining the best people will be the primary force influencing business strategy by 2010." Vision 2010, The Economist

We believe that all talent needs to be nurtured and deployed if businesses are to develop the flexibility and agility increasingly needed in today's uncertain and complex operating environment. However, businesses need to pay particular attention to identifying, developing, deploying and retaining their top talent, as these individuals will have most impact on the business and will have most choice regarding their employment.

Our approach is to engage business leaders in developing a tailored solution that actively supports their strategy and attracts high profile sponsorship. We provide support on the implementation of talent management strategies, offer a range of diagnostic tools to help identify top talent and leadership potential, and design stretching and stimulating development programmes that provide great return on investment for talented individuals and their businesses. Our integrated approach recognizes that the best outcomes are achieved through meeting both business and individual needs, engaging and developing talented people while also providing quick pay back on the investment made.

Key features of our approach are:

• Achieving Top Management Sponsorship and Engagement - supporting leaders in considering the effectiveness of their talent management strategies and enhancing their implementation.
• Accelerated Development Programmes - highly talented people need significant stretch and challenge to accelerate their development through real opportunities to demonstrate their potential in new and testing situations.
• Leadership Development - we encourage leaders to recognise and build on their particular strengths to develop their unique leadership style, whilst building sufficient consistency to provide inspiring and performance orientated leadership across the business.
• Assessment and Selection of Top Talent - we have developed an innovative approach which is significantly more engaging for participants and leads to greater motivation and application of learning, compared to traditional assessment centres/processes.
• Action Learning and Self-Directed Development - our approach enables leaders to take effective control of their own development to ensure learning is directly relevant, applied in the workplace and makes a real difference to performance.
• Connecting Talented Individuals - we support the development of networks between talented people so they remain highly motivated and the resulting synergy can be utilised to the business' advantage.

For further details on Talent Management please email sue.young@berkshire.co.uk or call 0118 932 3580.