The document discusses talent management, including what it is, why it is important, and how to implement it effectively. It notes that talent management helps with recruitment, retention, developing employees, succession planning, and achieving corporate goals. The organization has made progress with appraisals, surveys, training, and development programs. Moving forward, they aim to assess effectiveness, develop more tools, balance individual and organizational needs, and get talent management higher on the leadership agenda by emphasizing increased productivity, staff retention, and skills. The key is having the basics in place, engaging all levels not just HR, offering valuable rewards, and securing long-term commitment and sponsorship from top executives.

1. Talent Management

2. Talent Management
• What is it?
• And what is it not?

3. Why is Talent Management
important?
• Recruitment and retention
• Getting the best of all employees
• Helps to deliver corporate objectives and
plans
• Productive, committed working
environment
• Succession planning

4. Getting the basics right
• Talent Management is at best less
effective and at worst iniquitous if wider
HR good practice is not embedded
• Affected by where your organisation is and
the corporate memory

5. What have we done
• Some excellent progress
 Appraisals
Staff survey
Knowledge & Skills Framework
Mandatory training
Executive development
Scholarships
Training linked to key WCC skills

6. The Corporate Challenge Ahead
• Looking beyond the Executive for talent
• How do we assess our Talent
Management effectiveness
• What tools will we use to embed good
practice
• Balancing the development of individuals
and the needs of the organisation
• Developing the skills for Talent
Management

7. What does good Talent
Management need?
• Leadership
• Fairness
• Strategy
• Comprehensiveness

8. How do you get Talent Management
on your CEO’s agenda?
• It will make their organisation more
productive
• Staff survey results feed into Healthcare
Commission assessment
• Staff retention
• Increase skills and commitment
• Make it easy for them – structures,
process, jargon

9. Top tips
• Talent Management means little if you
haven’t got the basics in place
• This cannot be delivered by HR alone
• Talent Management needs to offer
rewards that your staff value
• It needs time, commitment and leadership
from the top

10. Top tips
• Talent Management means little if you
haven’t got the basics in place
• This cannot be delivered by HR alone
• Talent Management needs to offer
rewards that your staff value
• It needs time, commitment and leadership
from the top