BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Talent
- people with exceptional abilities, especially a company's most valued employees
Wiktionary Definition for: Talent
- a unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East.
- a marked ability or skill.
- Ex:''He has the talent of touching his nose with his tongue.''
- the potential or factual ability to perform a skill better than most people.
- Ex:''She has a talent to sing.''
- Ex:Also used jocularly, as: ''He has a talent for getting into trouble.''
- (''slang'') attractive man or woman.
- #English Talent.
Additional Resources
- Why Finding Talent Isn't Any Easier
- They tell you that the market is suddenly flooded with top talent. Don't get giddy. Managers still have a lot of work ahead to handle fluid talent pools. Here is what you need to know. What separated the high-performing firms from the low-performing ones was the attitude toward recruiting. In...
- White papers 2001-05-21
- 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...
- White papers 2003-10-16
- 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...
- White papers 2005-08-22
- Finding Talent
- As the need for employees becomes acute, CEOs find that their standby staffing methods are not enough anymore. Thus, the need to recruit talented staff increases manifolds. Experts suggest that one can go as far as possible to find the right kind of people. In this world, there is no...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Finding Talent With Technology
- With the advent of knowledge economy, the world of talent acquisition has undergone a drastic change. Most companies believe that hiring an outside talent is beneficial for the development of organizations. However, it is more important for the organizations to nurture, mould, and polish the existing talent, which might give...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- 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,...
- White papers 2004-12-07
- Building Your Talent Warehouse
- Have you ever thought of your organization as a warehouse for the people talent that drives the success your business? This talent is represented by the inventory of skills, knowledge, and commitment possessed by your employees and managers. You can proactively manage your talent warehouse for real gains in organizational...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Magnet for Talent: Talent Management Approaches in the Czech and Slovak Republics
- The ability to acquire and retain talent has been and is an issue for organisations all over the world. The critical issue of respondent organisations across all industries is to acquire new talent (84%) and to retain talent (58%). Czech and Slovak organisations mentioned the issue of acquiring new talent...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Identifying and Managing Talent
- Managing talent is rather like managing business strategy. You need to be objective and far sighted. Once you understand what market you are in, what products and/or services you are offering, and what the core competencies are that you need to meet current and future business objectives, you can see...
- Download resources 2006-06-02
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- An Eye for Talent
- The best managers know how to discover and get the most out of the talent within their workgroups. Companies succeed to the degree to which employee performance is consistent, and therefore, predictable. Smart organizations know that while all employees have talent, what results from that talent depends a lot on...
- White papers 2003-09-11
- The Increasing Competition for Leadership Talent
- How do great leaders of successful companies spend half of their time? They spend it on people: recruiting new talent, picking the right people for positions, grooming young stars, developing global managers, dealing with under-performers, and reviewing the entire talent pool. Everyone agrees that talent is an important competitive advantage,...
- White papers
- Talent Wars: Out of Mind, Out of Practice
- When it comes to talent, complacency is rampant in too many companies. Gone are the scenes from the late 1990s, when the economy was booming, stocks were soaring, and companies were pulling out all the stops just to get warm bodies in the door. Instead of searching for and developing...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Sourcing Talent Through People, Process, and Technology
- How well one meets both customer commitments and internal demands depends on the talent they hire. More than "Replacement planning," talent management assures that the supply of talent is available to align the right people with the right jobs at the right time, based on strategic business objectives. Sourcing those...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- 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...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- 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...
- White papers 2003-04-22
- How To Stem The Talent Drain In R&D Organizations
- Talent is the inner ability of a person to do things in a creative and unique manner. Organizations, often, complain of lack of talented people, but do not try to identify the hidden talent of existing employees. As a result, emptiness engulfs organizations striving to make a name in the...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- To Build, Buy, or Trade Talent: That Is the Question Behind Talent Management
- All around the globe, the transformation of traditional staffing into talent management is happening among leading organizations. Like many evolutionary changes, this one got off to a slow start, but it is picking up momentum exponentially. Driving this transformation is the realization by senior leadership that talent - as much...
- White papers 2005-03-21
- Flipping The Coin For Talent: How Well Are You Hiring?
- "Having the most talented people in each of our businesses is the most important thing. If we don't, we lose." How do great leaders of successful companies spend half of their time? They spend it on people: recruiting new talent, picking the right people for positions, grooming young stars, developing...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Talent Management Defined: Is It a Buzzword or a Major Breakthrough?
- 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,...
- White papers 2004-09-13
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