Maximise Your Talent for Success Course

Is it right for me?

In today’s business world, organisations are looking to achieve competitive advantage through their most valuable resource -– their people. This course will be for people managers who recognise the need to enhance the calibre and skills of their teams to deliver improved performance. The course will look at the key areas of talent management (acquiring, developing and retaining employees) to see how key line managers can help to improve the organisation’s performance. This programme will also be of great benefit for HR professionals who are looking at implementing talent management practices in their organisations.

What will I get out of it?

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Recognise why talent management matters to your people and the organisation
• Use practical tools to identify talented individuals within your team
• Identify development opportunities for your people to support their talent development
• Use coaching techniques to support talented individuals
• Ensure ALL members of the team remain engaged
• Hold effective performance management conversations with talented individuals

Related courses in our range

• Leading Employee Engagement
• Performance Review and Objective Setting
• Recruitment & Selection Interviewing

What does it cover?

Why maximising talent matters

• Defining talent management
• Why managing talent matters
• A manager’s role in growing their talent

Acquiring and identifying talent

• Identifying talent within the organisation and your team –- practical tools
• Identify talent in your team -– linking skills and behaviours to organisational needs
• Improving the employer brand -– how to attract the talent you need from outside the company

Developing and growing talent

• Identify a wide range of learning and growth opportunities for the talent in your team/business
• How to hold effective developmental conversations
• Creating developmental action plans
• Coaching techniques to support development of talented individuals

Engaging and retaining talent

• How to increase engagement levels of your team, including those who have not been identified as part of a talent pool
• Effective performance management to deliver sustainable improvements
• Appraising potential as well as performance
• How to hold effective difficult conversations, e.g. when “talent” is not living up to potential or no longer wants to be part of a talent pool