Talent Management

Effective talent management allows organisations to build a high performance workplace where continuous learning is encouraged.  This course considers what is needed to develop a strategic approach to attracting and retaining staff who can compete at regional, national and international levels.  In addition, managers need to analyse key employment markets and gain an understanding of their dynamics in order to compete more effectively, both now and in the future.

This course looks at the changing roles of HR professionals when it comes to talent management.  Areas covered during the course include:

• the business case for talent management
• identification and evaluation of talent
• key features that attract talent 
• becoming an employer of choice
• career development
• internal talent pools
• succession planning
• using talent management analytics to measure results and impact

By the end of this interactive training programme, you will be able to:

• Analyse and evaluate key features of national and international employment markets 
• Develop resourcing and talent management strategies, diversity management and flexible working initiatives
• Undertake and evaluate long and short-term talent and succession planning exercises 
• Gather, analyse and use information on employee turnover as the basis for developing robust staff retention strategies
• Identify strategies and implementation plans for managing high and poor performance
• Succession and contingency planning – manage retirement, redundancy and dismissal practices fairly and in line with best practice