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
- Identifying, Managing, and Nurturing Top Talent
- Talent is an indicator of one's capacity to learn, grow, and develop new skills for future use. It also suggests how quickly a person or organization can adapt to new challenges. In this article, "talent" is defined as a dormant or untapped quality that lies either in an individual employee...
- Articles 2007-06-27
- Make Your Company a Talent Factory
- The Idea in Brief An astonishing number of companies are struggling to fill key positions. This talent shortage is putting an enormous strain on their potential to expand into new markets. One London-based real estate development firm recently had to pass on a...
- Articles 2007-11-07
- Danger: Talent Management Can Be Divisive
- Everyone seems to be talking about talent management at the moment. It came up as a priority for at least 50 per cent of Ashridge’s Management Index of important trends, driving the business school to launch a course to help managers frame the business case and avoid common pitfalls. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Biz Book Death Match: Finding Keepers vs. Talent on Demand
- Want to find the best employees? Want to keep them happy? Without breaking the budget? Two recent books say they're the answer. Both have their strengths. Which one is best? Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty Author: Peter...
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Identifying, Managing, and Nurturing Top Talent
- Identifying, Managing, and Nurturing Top Talentrelevance of articleI found this article enlightening and helpful in writing a paper for my graduate ethic class and I wondered if this is the correct way to cite it since there is no author.BNET(2007).Identifying, Managing, and Nurturing Top Talent.BNET Editorial. Retrieved August 10,2007 from...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Talent and Teamwork Fall Prey to Cost-Cutting
- Is the recession putting paid to talent management. Several surveys suggest so: PricewaterhouseCoopers's Global CEO survey finds company bosses struggling to balance the urgent need for cost-cutting with the longer-term, loftier-seeming notions of talent retention. Globally, workforce development and training are dropping down the priority list and...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- McKinsey: How to Nurture Managerial Talent in China
- Generally speaking, finding talent for a business is a bit easier than finding capital or innovative ideas. But if you do business in China the opposite is true, according to McKinsey Quarterly in a new report. McKinsey researchers Kevin Lane and Florian Pollner note that China's typically...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Forget "Talent" and Start Keeping Score
- Â The sharp downturn in the world economy has changed the nature of the talent business. It's suddenly gone from frantically trying to recruit bright and able people to focusing on keeping and developing them. A chief executive of a large British company recently...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets
- What motivates a Uruguayan software engineer to work for an Indian company in Brazil? If you don't know, you risk losing the race for talent in emerging markets. These new markets are growing so fast, even...
- Articles 2008-12-10
- Upgrading Talent
- A downturn can give smart companies a chance to upgrade their talent. Downturns place companies' talent strategies at risk. As deteriorating performance forces increasingly aggressive head count reductions, it's easy to lose valuable contributors inadvertently, damage morale or the company's external reputation among potential employees,...
- Articles 2009-01-12
- How To Get the Talent Your Company Needs, Part I
- With recession looming, it must be time to talk about how to hire people. Sure, things are uncertain, but they're always uncertain in the modern economy. That’s the theme of Peter Cappelli's "Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty." Cappelli, a professor at...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- How to Get the Talent Your Company Needs, Part 2
- Despite the bad economic news we keep hearing, a job boom could be coming soon, according to University of Michigan researchers. So it's time to finish my review of "Talent on Demand." It's been almost a month since I began this review, in How to Get the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- IBM Finds Adaptability and Collaboration Key to Talent Development
- IBM Global Human Capital recently released a study with some interesting results. Their survey of 400 human resources executives reveals that a vast majority (75%) are concerned about their company's ability to groom future leaders. This, of course, is a major aspect of attracting and keeping top talent, and a...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- 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 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
- How Tata's Talent Development Keeps MBAs from Saying Goodbye to India
- How Tata's Talent Development Keeps MBAs from Saying Goodbye to IndiaDidn't BNet just devalue the MBA degree?Hi - Well, given that BNet recently published a set of articles casting negative views on the value o/t MBA ... it's not a real concern, right?http://www.bnet.com/2403-13070_23-170538.htmlTAS- Chartered AccountantsThe similar scheme was introduced for...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Is Toxic Management Killing your Talent?
- The amount of talent that exists in an organisation is directly related to the quality of its managers. Good management attracts and keeps the best people, while bad management drives them out. Toxic management. Toxic management is estimated to cost about £20bn a year, if you believe...
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Urgent: Talent Managers Needed
- The fight for qualified project professionals is becoming dog-eat-dog. It’s driving up costs and driving away loyalty, says Greg Balestrero, the chief executive of the Project Management Institute PMI, a global organisation for project managers. A PMI/Economist Intelligence Unit survey on talent management found: ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- The Chemistry Of Talent (New Ways To Think About People And Work)
- As the issue of talent tops the C-suite agenda, Deloitte is poised to lead in the talent services market with a unique point of view: The Chemistry of Talent New ways to think about people and work. This is the 10th in a series of Straight Talk books dedicated to...
- White papers 2008-08-08
- 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
