Identify and Grow Talent — A 2-Day Course

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Course Synopsis

• Are you managing a team?
• Would you like to be able to schedule resources?
• Do you want creative ideas to come easily?
• Do you need to motivate a group of people to work for you?
• Are you dealing with things reactively rather than proactively planning them?
• Do you need to run appraisals and manage performance?

If the answer is "YES" - this is the course for you!

Typically we judge talent in terms of how well people excel in our prescribed competencies within structured environments. In future we need to be looking for something different. These are the people who will be able to take senior positions in the company and drive the business forward.

Course Objectives

On completion of this training course, delegates will be able to:

• Increase attraction and retention of key talent
• Provide critical infrastructure and foundation for a learning organization linked to business needs
• Ensure a rapid response to resource mobility needs
• Enhance productivity that addresses business needs and builds a culture of high performance
• Articulate your organisation's dedication and commitment to on-going learning

From the Practical Workshops, students will:

• Learn to spot talent in the right places not just in appraisal scores
• Learn how to assess each new talent to allow it to flourish individually
• Understand how to grow talent
• Understand what succession planning is and your responsibilities in ensuring new great managers replace your current great managers when the latter get promoted

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Managers who are responsible for growing talent and want to harness the talents in the organisation and beyond.

Benefits for your Company

You will articulate your organisation's dedication and commitment to on-going learning and grow the senior people of tomorrow. Plus you will motivate employees so retention of your best people should improve, which can only be a good thing for the bottom line. By giving space to the talents of those who you manage / lead you will motivate them to do the amazing things they want to do for the organisation.

Benefits for You

You will understand what drives talent and learn how to provide the right conditions to attract and retain top performers. You will be equipped to enhance productivity that addresses business needs and builds a culture of high performance.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Outline Course Contents

Introduction & Welcome

You will meet other delegates in a similar position of responsibility to yourself. An experienced, friendly trainer will ensure the course focuses on the particular skills you want to develop.

Issues Requiring Talent Management

You identify in small groups the issues that mean you need to take action in term of identifying and growing talent. These could be an aging population of senior managers, fast growth, rapid promotion etc.

What is Talent and How to Identify it?

Where to look for current talent / high performance internally:

• Architects - people who push back constructively, who believe passionately that there is a better way to do things and couch their arguments in terms of how it will benefit our customers
• Boundary jumpers - people who work across the organisation, when you wouldn't expect them to do so, in order to achieve a goal that would delight a client
• Pied Pipers - people who capture the imagination of other people, and drag them along by the force of their personality

Growing the Talent

You will discuss three ways of growing talent.

• Giving people enough resource to make changes happen
• Giving them high level sponsorship to remove barriers
• Ensuring that the only reality check is provided by our customers not by our internal processes or prejudices

Talent vs Competency

We look at the Gallup research around talents and what impact this has for your organisation. We also look at case studies around developing talents unequally for maximum organisational and personal gain, rather than the standard models of pushing all competency levels to a baseline.

Workshop

You will then workshop what that means for your company and come up with alternative ideas of sponsoring talent.

Growing People

We look at competencies and learning styles to assess how people grow when they are managed properly and what a personal development plan looks like / sounds like / feels like.

Finally we will use the GROW coaching technique to learn how to get individual's take responsibility for their own development. You will role play giving and receiving feedback as well as coaching using GROW so that you can effectively assess and improve team performance.

Managing Performance

You will learn how to assess the performance of others. We will look at giving and receiving positive feedback rather than neutral or negative in terms of shaping team behaviours. You will use the feedback to improve your performance and check you get your message across in a professional and respectful way.

You run a sample appraisal.

Mentoring

You will look at mentoring including the GROW methodology to show how you can nurture the talent in your teams.

Action Planning

Using our planning tool, you will identify talent within your teams, define how you will grow that talent and assess how you will backfill their advancement.