The document outlines the challenges businesses face in talent acquisition and retention, highlighting that top executives prioritize these issues. It defines a 'talent magnet' as an organization that attracts and retains skilled employees by fostering a supportive culture and continuous professional development. Additionally, it emphasizes the significant business advantages of integrated talent management, including higher revenue, lower turnover, and greater adaptability to economic changes.

1. Become a
Talent
Magnet

5. Jan Sysmans
Senior Director Marketing, Saba
@jsysmans @sabasoftware
www.saba.com
jsysmans@saba.com

7. Agenda
• Business Challenges
• What Is a Talent Magnet
• Where Do You Start
• Business Benefits of Becoming a Talent Magnet
• Conclusion

8. Talent Business Challenges
Talent acquisition and retention has risen to top of the CEO agenda
60% of companies worried about losing top people in 2014
Synchronizing organization design with Business Strategy has
a 5:1 rate of reorganization success
Adobe's stock up 68% since it dumped stack ranking
How best to develop, manage, engage, and retain talent
were among the leading challenges cited by the executives
January 9, 2014 Conference Board Survey Report, CEO Challenge 2014

9. Top of CEO Agenda
Talent challenges business impact:
 Unable to Effectively Pursue Market Opportunities
 Incurring Higher than Expected Expenses
 Poor Engagement & Productivity
17th Annual Global CEO Survey – Jan. 2014

10. What is a Talent Magnet?

11. What The Experts Say
Josh Bersin
“Today, one could argue that the war is over and “the talent
won.” While unemployment remains high among many groups,
highly skilled workers are in great demand, making it critical for
organizations to become a “talent magnet” and creating a
steady pipeline of top people.”
“The ability to find and keep talent is perhaps the most
valuable of all leadership attributes. And the best talent
magnets make clear from their constant actions that their
priorities are all about attracting and retaining the best. In
business success, it is always all about people.”
Anthony Tjan

12. “A Magnetic Culture draws
talented employees to the
What is a Talent Magnet
workplace, empowers them, and
sustains an environment in which
they are more likely to stay.
Such a culture is marked by
engaged employees who share a
strong desire to be part of the
value the organization creates”

13. Talent Magnets
Attract and
Retain
Top Talent

14. Where Do You Start?

15. Talent Magnet: Attract and Retain Top Talent
• Attract
 A strong and relevant employment brand
 Enabling employees to be a brand ambassadors
 Tap into social talent networks
 Use innovative hiring practices
• Retain
 Meaningful, exciting & flexible work environments
 Facilitate talent mobility
 Encourage career and skill development
 Transform from competitive, periodic performance
assessment model to continuous coaching and
capability development and where goals are well
understood and aligned with the overall company
goals
Source: Bersin by Deloitte and Saba

17. Do – Start With An Employee Centric Culture

18. Do – Know Where You Are

19. Don’t – Boil The Ocean

20. Don’t - Technology for Technology’s Sake

21. Business Benefits of
Becoming a Talent Magnet

22. Becoming a Talent Magnet
• Companies with strategy-driven integrated talent management
functions have significant advantages over their silo-ed counterparts:
Plan
Talent
Attract
Develop
Retain
 26% higher revenue per employee
 40%lower turnover among high performers
 87%greater ability to “hire the best people”
 156% greater ability to “develop the best leaders”
 144% greater ability to “plan for future workforce needs”
 92%greater ability to “respond to changing economic conditions”
“Integrated Talent Management – A Roadmap for Success” – Bersin by Deloitte

24. Conclusion

25. Becoming a Talent Magnet Is a Continuous Process
Attract , Enable, Grow & Retain Top Talent
Machine
Intelligence
Skills &
Development
Competencies
Recognize
Plan and Align
Workforce
Talent Mobility
and Retention
Acquire Top
Talent
Collaboration
High Performance
Agile Culture

26. Good Resources

27. Thank You
@jsysmans
@sabasoftware
jsysmans@saba.com www.saba.com