Talent Management: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Talent Management

  • the recruitment, selection, identification, retention, management, and development of personnel considered to have the potential for high performance. Talent management is a model of personnel management. It focuses on the skills and abilities of the individual and on his or her potential for promotion to senior management roles. It also assesses how much of a contribution the individual can make to the success of the organization.

Additional Resources

Talent Management Road Kill, Part 2: Why Those Slow to Master Talent Management May Find Themselves Unemployed
A talent management strategy that defines the coordination required between each of the major systems involved in talent management is essential to ensuring strategic level performance. Workforce planning is an essential process that takes input from a multitude of directions and translates it into forecasts around the organizations talent pool...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2005-08-22
Technology: An Enabler of Integrated Talent Management
Talent management, particularly integrated talent management, is complex and difficult, calling for the aid of today's talent management technologies. Despite its complexity more organizations than ever are striving to build integrated talent management capacities. This briefing discusses why integrated talent management technology is not a driver of talent management initiatives,...
Tags: Workforce Management, Talent Management, Talent, Human Resources
White papers 2004-12-07
Talent Management: A Strategic Imperative
There is an abundance of evidence to suggest that Talent Management TM is quickly moving to the top of corporate agendas. Our observation based on work with Ashridge clients, that talent management is becoming a key theme driving strategic HRM, is underpinned by IOMA's HR critical issues survey for 2006....
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Ashridge Business School, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2007-06-12
Talent Management: Something Productive This Way Comes
Talent management is nothing new. It has been around for a long time and worn many guises. It is, however, holistically a concept whose time has come. And if one is an HR professional looking to justify one's existence, bringing talent management to the forefront of human resources is a...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2003-04-22
Best Practices For Talent Management
Talent management, also referred to as human capital management, has now been regarded as an essential segment of modern corporate Human Resource HR and training. Talent management is a multifaceted idea that is practiced to recruit, retain, and promote right personnel in right place. In other words, talent management refers...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Best Practice, Workforce Management, Human Capital, Human Resources
White papers 2008-01-01
Talent Management Defined - The Breakthrough Needed To Revolutionize HR Practice
Talent management is the integrated process of ensuring that an organization has a continuous supply of highly productive individuals in the right job, at the right time. Rather than a one-time event, talent management is a continuous process that plans talent needs, builds an image to attract the very best,...
Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, Talent, Recruit Solutions, Talent Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Companies Taking Different Approaches to Talent Management
Employers in a variety of businesses place a high priority on talent management to meet growing workforce needs. At the same time, when it comes to developing and deploying a coherent talent management strategy, most companies are still feeling their way. They don't have a designated HR person to manage...
Tags: Talent, Towers Perrin, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2006-06-01
Reflections On Talent Management
What makes talent management different? For many, talent management represents a shift from static succession planning processes towards 'Action-oriented' activity. It's also seen as a far wider-reaching, holistic approach that moves towards better 'Joining up' of HR practices and the processes behind a clear business and personal set of goals....
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2006-03-27
How To Develop An Integrated Talent Management Process
The goal of the talent management process is to increase overall workforce productivity through the improved attraction, retention, and utilization of talent. By developing an integrated talent management process, ability to attract star performers to your organization increases and recruitment cost reduces. This paper provides 10 steps to develop an...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Changeboard, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2007-06-26
Talent Management: What Does It Really Mean?
The term talent management has become a Human Resource HR hot phrase. The idea of being able to both identify and then manage the performance and motivation of the most business critical is alluring, but it is also fraught with dangers. It suggests that talent only resides with some individuals,...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2008-01-01
The Need For Effective Talent Management And Six Steps To Help You Get There
The leading management consultants predicted a war for talent in business long back. Fast forward ten years and the talent wars have gone global; they are now one of the most pressing issues for organisations around the world. As talent shortages continue, and show no signs of abating, how should...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, GDS Publishing, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2007-02-01
Talent Management: Major New Survey - A Waste Of Talent
Business leaders know that talent management is strategically important, but HR has failed to make the most of its big opportunity. Companies that lack talent, or cannot exploit it, suffer where it hurts: the bottom line. Most business leaders agree, but few think their organisations manage talent effectively. These are...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Survey, Human Resources Magazine, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2004-01-10
Four Steps to Making Talent Management a Core Competence
Not only should line managers be adept at managing people but the corporation needs to have a robust people management capability that is clear, coherent, and applied company wide. Many companies are only beginning to appreciate the importance of enterprise wide talent management. This paper identifies four steps that companies...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2005-06-08
Talent Constellations Or Talent Communities - Choosing The Right Talent
Today's business conditions provide a golden opportunity to tune the talent strategy. While the battles for talent might appear to have calmed, the long-term winners will be those firms who move beyond battlefield tactics to long-term winning strategies. Real competitive advantage comes from making a clear choice in the overall...
Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, Talent
White papers 2003-10-16
Talent Management - What Is It Really?
There seems to be a constant flow of new buzz words popping up and a recent one is "Talent management" - logically following on from "The war for talent". It is about finding talented people, having them perform well and keeping them in the organization. This implies an integrated approach...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resource Management (HRM), Human Resources
White papers 2008-01-01
Human Capital Institute and SilkRoad technology Study Reveals Importance of Branding for Talent Management
The Human Capital Institute HCI, a professional association and think tank advancing the science of strategic talent management, and SilkRoad technology, inc., a leader in employee talent management systems, today announced research demonstrating that workers see a positive talent brand as an important factor in staying with their organization. ...
Tags: branding, talent, talent management
Research articles 2008-06-18
HBR IdeaCast: Talent Management
Businesses today fail at anticipating talent needs and setting plans to meet those needs, according to Peter Cappelli. Cappelli advocates a production-like, talent-on-demand approach. Rather than looking outward for all your hiring needs, companies should develop internal talent to fill most -- but not all -- of the anticipated openings...
Tags: Human Resources, Cappelli, Workforce Management, Talent Management, Talent, BNET staff
Blog posts 2008-03-10
Talent Management: Trends That Will Shape The Future.
Talent management practices have developed and adapted throughout the years in response to many changes in the workplace, from the industrial revolution and the rise of labor unions, to affirmative action, globalization, and outsourcing, to name just a few. The 1990s ended with a call-to-arms to fight "The war for...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Management
White papers 2004-03-01
Talent Management: Globalisation Boosts Demand
Talent management to become key differentiator for companies competing in global marketplace - growing skills shortages require new role of HR to succeed in competition for qualified workforce. Finding talent, developing talent and keeping talent will be the new role of Human Resources HR management in the future. This 'Talent...
Tags: Talent, Talent Management, Workforce, Changeboard, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers 2008-04-22
Talent Management: Three Controversial Practices Debated
In the contemporary business world, the focus is on enriching and developing the talent of an organization’s workforce. Then only the management is able to extract the ‘best’ from its employees. Intense competition and utmost importance to quality has made the modern-day corporation realize the benefits of talent management systems....
Tags: Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Talent
White papers 2003-09-01
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