Talent management involves developing and improving strategies to attract, develop, retain and utilize skilled employees to meet current and future business needs. It aims to align the right people with the right jobs at the right time. Managers play a key role in retaining and developing talent through coaching, mentoring, and ensuring employees have opportunities for learning and growth. Highly engaged employees often go above and beyond, take pride in their work, and are more productive. Building engagement involves inspiring employees through purpose and values, clear communication, empowerment through education, and strategic planning that considers culture and brand. A company saw improved retention rates, engagement, and satisfaction after implementing talent management strategies.

1. Building Better Talent
By: Maria Champion

2. What is Talent Management?
The implementation of integrated strategies or systems
to increase productivity by developing and improving the process of attracting,
developing, retaining and utilizing people with the required skills and aptitude to
meet current and future business needs.
Simply put, its purpose is to align the best people with the right jobs at the right
time.

3. Talent Selection
 Selecting candidates based upon their wide variety of skills
 Ensuring their career goals align with the position their seeking
 They can move into other positions down the line

4. Managers Role in Talent Management
 Managers are instrumental in retaining and developing their employees
 Ensuring that each employee has the proper learning and development to be
successful in their roles
 Coaching and mentoring
 Finding out what gets their employees engaged

5. Importance of Employee Engagement
 When employees are engaged it reflects in their job performance,
 they go over and above in their job task because they don’t just feel like an
employee, they feel like a partial owner within the organization.
 Often times engaged employees will do more for less and they take pride in
coming to work each day

6. Building Effective Engagement
 1) Inspire by promoting alignment and motivation not through orders, but
through messages and narratives that demonstrate the purpose of the
organization
 2) Report clearly, frequently and with reach, keeping the company routine
stable through the provision of relevant information.
 3) Empower through educational experiences, the fundamentals of brand
culture.
 4) Plan, execute and evaluate a good strategy that considers brand value and
inspires creative activities, which should be aligned with the objectives
initially set.

7. Where are, and Where We’re Going
Prime 2015
 Retention rate is 52%
 Employee Engagement 47%
 Employee Satisfaction 63%
Prime 2016
 Retention rate is 80%
 Employee Engagement 97%
 Employee Satisfaction 98%

8. Conclusion