Talent Management Made Easy _{9 February 2009}

Many organisations invest thousands of pounds identifying their future leaders. This can involve many different management development tools such as psychometric testing, talent selection panels, development centres or even old fashioned intuition!

Our experience proves that some organisations require a more thorough and detailed assessment process, whist others need a simple and pragmatic method to get them started. It is important that you use a talent selection tool that works best for you, your business, and your people.

Budgets are tight, so it is important that you spend your time selecting the right people. Unless you have eyes in the back of your head, this can be quite difficult. The people who know your employees best are their line managers; therefore it is really important to involve them in the process and make them accountable. You can then spend time and money assessing a small pool of talent potential rather than investing heavily in talent identification across your entire organisation.

We have created a free questionnaire called “TalentScout” that can help you and your line managers identify the talent in your business. It will help you to be objective about the decisions that are made and, more importantly, it will help to get you started and put talent management on your strategic agenda.

Download the free TalentScout questionnaire…