Course Description

 

This initial program focuses on the rapidly expanding field of organizational talent management. As advancement opportunities in many organizations decrease due to restructuring, downsizing and management cuts, talent planning and career development is becoming more important.

This new program will detail techniques for improving talent management programs in organizations as well as methods for integrating those programs into an organizational succession plan. Your seminar leaders will explore and describe cutting edge activities in several of these areas and provide an insight into what today’s professional talent, want from their jobs.

The development of talented employees, in fact of all employees, is for many organizations the next logical phase in human resource and succession planning. This workshop therefore is offered as tool for studying and contributing to a state of the art career development program. This tool can be used by the participant to assess the talent management approach he or she can in the organization and select the appropriate action. For the organization it can be used to promote employee well-being introduce valid promotional systems and forecast succession trends.

By attending this program you will have the opportunity in a professional interchange of ideas and experiences.

Course Objective

 

·         Review the latest concepts in the management of corporate talent

·         Establish the links between developing talent and planning succession

·         Address the problems faced with retention of talent

·         Determine how your organization can implement a successful strategy

·         Develop a personal and professional plan

·         Engage in cooperative communication between delegates

 

Who Should attend?

 

This program has been designed for those individuals who need to take a more proactive role in the development of their organization’s human resource development. People who have responsibility for career and leadership development will find the program of enormous benefit, as well as performance managers, manpower specialists and of course all those who work in the administration and human resource function. 

Course Outline

 

PART 1 - Strategic Human Resource Planning

                        Human Resource Planning

                        Supply, Demand, Forecasting

                        Manpower Planning Framework

                        Trends and Forces

                        Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

                        Supply and Wastage

                        Planning Cycle

PART 2 - Talent-Based H. R. Systems

                        The Talent-Based Organization

                        Management Competencies

                        The AMA Model

                        Output versus Talent

                        Talent Teams

                        The Development Cycle

                        Leadership

                        The Talent Competency Matrix                       

PART 3 - Talent Development for Succession

                        Interface between Career Development and Human Resource Planning

                        Talent Planning

                        Career Anchors

                        Career Progression Charts

                        Career Development Teams

                        Talent Policy

                        Selection Process

PART 4 - Succession Planning and Trend Analysis

                        Succession Planning – A General Framework

                        Talent/Succession Diagrams

                        Age/Competency Distributions

                        Replacement and Succession Diagrams

                        High Potential Talent Analysis 

PART 5 - Delivering the Plan

                        Forces Affecting Talent Management

                        Strategic Partners

                        Steps to Strategic Talent Planning

                        Talent Support Systems