Is your organisation talent friendly?
Featured in the Talent Management training manual
By Adelaide Shone
Category: Management
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
It is becoming widely accepted that one of the manager’s responsibilities is to identify, engage and nurture existing talent within their team – in effect, talent management. In addition, the manager is required to identify any gaps in the knowledge and capability of the team. The manager should plan to meet the needs by using training and development opportunities, if applicable, or by recruiting new talent into the team – in effect, talent planning. However, managers cannot act alone. They need the support of the organisation to access talent-friendly tools and strategies already in place. This training activity provides participants with the opportunity to audit their organisations. They are individually challenged to assess the current picture, providing a starting point to produce a ‘wish list’ and action plan collectively. The wish list and action plan includes tools or strategies that any manager can implement and some specific to the participants’ workplaces.
In this training activity the focus is on the manager’s organisation. It opens with participants being divided into small working groups, and there is an opportunity for some inter-group competition. The aim is to start participants thinking about typical tools and strategies to engage talent that may already be in place in any organisation. A wide range of tools and strategies are discussed, and participants are encouraged to think of their own examples. The purpose is to create a comprehensive wish list. The training activity then moves to an organisation audit. Participants audit their own organisations and share their findings with the whole group. The training activity closes with the participants completing the manager’s action plan for implementation on their return to the workplace.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to give participants the opportunity to audit their own organisation’s talent-friendly policies and systems, and to give them a chance to create a wish list of tools and strategies to help support talent potential.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:20:00 |
| No of Pages: | 21 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: Sheets of card in three different colours.
Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to develop new management skills or as a ‘refresher’ for more experienced managers. This activity can be used in the early stages of a training programme, and in conjunction with ‘What is talent?’, ‘Talent matters!’ and ‘It takes talent to engage and retain talent’ to establish a starting point in training for ‘the war for talent’. It can also be useful to revisit this training activity, possibly six months later, to measure any changes an organisation has made. This training activity is useful in training programmes on delegation, management skills and organisation development.
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