Kantar Health allows employees to work virtually while still feeling connected to their teams through laptops, mobile devices, and secured connections that give them access to corporate infrastructure. The organization brings teams together several times a year to share updates, develop strategy, and conduct training. Kantar Health also provides online tools for employees to create and promote their personal brand identity, which engages younger workers who value having an online presence. Additionally, Kantar Health actively promotes global mobility opportunities to attract and retain talent while developing employees' skills through global projects and experiences working abroad.

1. Nurturing , enabling
and empowering talent
at the workplace
Presented by :
Sweta Leena Panda

2. WHAT SHOULD HR CARE ABOUT ?
◈What will make or break our business success over the next
decade?
◈Have we built an organizational capacity for collaboration?
◈Are we leveraging technology to improve performance?
◈Are we able to tap the best available talent?
◈What does it mean to work in our organization?
◈What do our “managers” do?
◈Are we basing our decision-making on the best possible input?
◈Is our organization ready for the future?

3. NEEDS
Turnover
Leadership gaps
Smaller talent pools
Tight compensation
budgets:

4. ROLE OF HR IN TALENT MANAGEMENT
Different Aspects of
Talent Management
Role of HR
Talent
Management
is an Art and
a Science
Identifying
Leaders
Emotional
Intelligence as an
Indicator of
Leadership Potential
Perils of
Promoting
Lousy
Managers

6. Approaches to
innovation can
vary from
industry to
industry
Motivating and supporting
next-gen workers
Harnessing and creating
value from the smallest units
of knowledge
Highly engaged,
committed participants
Combining different types of
knowledge and expertise
Detecting and responding to
market and environmental
shifts
Customizing relationships
with customers, suppliers
and others,
Continually improving
processes
Trust-based
relationships
Important, challenging
tasks
Collaborative hiring,
development and
promotion practices.
Organizational philosophy
supporting a “community
of adults”
Prevalence of
networking
opportunities
Well-defined individual
roles and responsibilities
Executive role models
for collaboration

7. A Productivity Rx:Kantar Health
Kantar Health’s virtual working arrangement — while unusual in the pharmaceutical space — is a
critical component of its employee value proposition.
◈ Associates can work from home while still being connected to their teams, as non-office-based
employees are provided with laptops and mobile devices that give them access to the corporate
infrastructure through secured connections.
◈ Several times per year, the organization brings teams together into one place to share updates,
develop strategy, review plans and conduct training.
◈ As part of the virtual work ethos, online technology is available for employees to create their own
“Kantar Health space,” which helps them develop and promote their personal brand identity. Next-
generation workers especially value this, as it reflects the way most live their personal lives —
creating and maintaining an online presence.
◈ In addition, the organization actively promotes global mobility as a compelling aspect of the
employee value proposition. This is attractive to associates and encourages longer tenures, while
also nurturing the skills and competence of the workforce as a whole. Many of Kantar’s younger
workers join the organization because they want opportunities to work on truly global projects
while waiting to work abroad. Ultimately, the program creates a richer talent pool of employees
with global experience for Kantar Health to deploy on client projects.