On October 21, 2015, Tom Haak of the HR Trend Institute gave a keynote at the Excellence in Talent Management seminar organised by Teneo in Brussels. These are the slides he used.

1. Trends and
Talent Management
Tom Haak, 21 October 2015
Excellence in Talent Management

2. My background

3. 10 Talent Management Trends
1. Increasing importance of Talent Analytics
2. A broader definition of talent
3. More customized programs
4. From secret to transparent
5. From general to very specific skill training
6. From annual to regular to real time feedback
7. Gamification everywhere
8. Pay top for the best
9. From 1:1 suc. management to broad talent pools
10. Talent sharing

4. 1. Talent Analytics

5. Individualisation
• Not: one size fits all
• Big Data enables individualisation
• HR using marketing techniques

6. Performance: not a Bell curve,
but a Power Law distribution
Performance
Number of people

7. The Vitesse example

8. Talent trackers?

10. 2. Broader definition of talent

11. Not: one size fits all

12. Different talent sources
Internal talent
pool
Online
Intermediary
Alumni
Start-ups Self employed
Talent Sharing

13. From War for Talent to Abundance of
Talent
• Flatter organisations
• Large global talent pool
• Artificial intelligence
• Still big room for productivity improvement
• More collaborative business models
• The power of networks

14. Job Piling
14

15. Job crafting
15

16. Individuals >
Individuals and their
network

17. 17

18. 18

20. Quirky and
GE
[Quirky
bankrupt?]

24. 3D printing of talent
Jimmy, Intel’s 3D printed
robot

25. 3. More customized programs

26. Different talent sources
Internal talent
pool
Online
Intermediary
Alumni
Start-ups Self employed
Talent Sharing

28. 4. From secret to transparent

29. 29

32. 5. From general to very
specific skill training

33. End of general management programs?

34. Adobe Kick Box
34

35. 6. Faster feedback

36. 36
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37. Would you hire this person again?

40. 7. Gamification everywhere

42. Happening app
• Collaboration
• Challenges
• Gamification
• Private/ work

44. 8. Pay top for the best

45. Performance: not a Bell curve,
but a Power Law distribution
Performance
Number of people

46. 9. Broad talent pools/
the end of succession mgt

47. Traditional succession management
Position Name Until? ST MT LT Urgenc
y
CEO Jack 2018? Bill Bill Trudy Bill
CFO Karen 2020 ?? ?? Carl Outside
CHRO Sophy 2016 outside outside HR pool Bill
CIO Paul Just
here
tbd tbd No
worry
Outside
CMO Ted 2020 Laura Laura ??Laura

49. 10. Talent Sharing

50. Talent Sharing

51. Follow me:
Twitter: @tomwhaak, @hrtrendinst
Website: hrtrendinstitute.com
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