Talent ManagementA competency based HR program to select, A competency based HR program to select,

develop and motivate high performing peopledevelop and motivate high performing people

Great people build great organizationsand

great organizations develop great people

“The first job of every leader is to match talent to task.”

David KeirseyPlease Understand Me II

“The right people don’t need to be tightly managed or fired up, they will be self-motivated to produce the best results.”

Jim CollinsGood to Great

Aligning Business Strategy & Talent Strategy

Traits

SkillsKnowledge

Talent

BusinessStrategy:the results we want

TalentStrategy:the people we need

Aligning Business Strategy & Talent Strategy

Implementing an organization’s business strategy requires people who consistently demonstrate the talents that embody the knowledge, skills and traits required to achieve high performance.

Business Strategy

Talent Strategy

How will our organization be positioned in the marketplace?

Who are our core customers and our competitors?

What is our unique value proposition?

How will we create value for our customers, employees and owners?

What will drive organizational performance and create exceptional results?

What talents are required in our people to deliver our critical capabilities and achieve our performance goals?

How will we define success?

How will we know when performance meets customer, employee and owner expectations?

What resources are required to develop the talent necessary to achieve our business strategy?

Critical Capabilities

Performance Competencies

Performance Measures

◆ Knowledge: Factual information that can be acquired through classwork, reading, talking with others, videos, websites, etc. Knowledge includes procedures, processes, specifications, products, regulations, market information.

◆ Skills: Applied techniques that are acquired experientially. They can be developed through OJT, coaching and practice. Skills include using tools and equipment, negotiating, writing, sales.

◆ Traits: Aptitudes, interests and personality and interaction style. Traits are innate to individuals and must be screened for and selected, typically through an assessment tool. They tend to be consistent for each individual over time. Traits include aspects such as leadership, assertiveness, resilience, creativity, mechanical aptitude, math aptitude.

Talent Has Three Dimensions

Behavioral potential shaped by knowledge, skills and traits that are applied consistently over time and that result in effective performance.

Talent

Traits

SkillsKnowledge

• Organizational culture & values• Strategy & objectives (business &

people)• Competency-based job assessment • Individual assessment • High quality performance feedback • Learning & development opportunities • Career pathing & succession planning • Leaders who provide coaching and

mentoring

Elements of Talent Management

Using Assessments To Map Traits

• Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

• Activity Vector Analysis (AVA)

• 16 Personality Factor (16pf)

Assessment Accuracy

◆ Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook – rates assessment instruments. Professionally recognized standard, just as Best’s rating of insurance companies or Dun & Bradstreet rating of credit worthiness www.unl.edu/buros/

◆ EEOC Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures – apply to tests and other selection procedures used in making employment decisions

◆ Norming – have the instruments used been researched for the type of candidates being assessed?

◆ Validity – have the assessments demonstrated that they measure what they claim to measure?

◆ Reliabililty – have the assessments delivered similar results over time?

◆ Consistency – is each candidate for a position tested in exactly the same manner?

Position Competency Profiles

• Develop with input from a group of selected SME’s (Subject matter experts– 4-6 people who know the job well, perform the job well

• Identify the key 6 behavioral competencies that are “success drivers” for the position

• Validate and detail the list with the SME’s

Position Competency Profiles

Competencies are Related Sets of Multiple Behaviors

◆ Responding promptly to shifts in direction, priorities and schedules.

◆ Demonstrating agility in accepting new ideas, approaches and / or methods.

◆ Effectively juggling multiple priorities and tasks.

◆ Modifying methods or strategies to fit changing circumstances.

◆ Adapting personal style to work with different people.

◆ Maintaining productivity during transitions, even in the midst of chaos.

◆ Embracing and / or championing change.

For example, Flexibility can be briefly described as “agility in adapting to change.” However, many different specific behaviors may be considered significant aspects of flexibility.

Using Position Competency Profiles

◗ Benchmarking for selection assessments◗ Developing behavior-based interview questions◗ Job specific performance appraisals◗ 360 Feedback◗ Coaching◗ Career pathing and succession planning◗ Creating individual development plans

Behavior-Based Interview QuestionsAsk applicants to describe an actual occasion when they acted in a certain way, used a skill, solved a problem or had to deal with a job-related situation based on one of the behaviors in a key competency. Flexibility:

●Tell me about a time when you had to make a quick shift in your plans or priorities for the day

●Describe a time when you had to multi-task and juggle several priorities

●Tell me about a situation where you had to adjust to several different personalities to be a good team player maintain good work relationships

●Tell me about a situation where your organization made a big change that affected your work. How did you handle that?

Performance Feedback

◗ High quality, constructive feedback is an important resource for improving individual performance

◗ Good feedback helps individuals become more effective, capable and better prepared to move forward in their careers

◗ Enables individuals to understand their strengths and to identify positions in the organization that match their strengths

◗ Provides input on areas where effectiveness can be improved in the current position

◗ Helps build development plans to enhance career pathing and succession planning

◗ Feedback based on position competency profiles that have been communicated throughout the organization provides supervisors and employees a common framework for discussing performance and development issues

Expected

Performance

Actual

Performance

Performance Coaching

Flexibility & multi-tasking

Acting upset when asked to take on a new task

Do you see how this is disrupting the team? What ideas do you have for changing this?

Competencies as a Coaching Tool

Competencies give supervisors specific behaviors to focus on when discussion performance

Performance Appraisal

Competencies focus performance appraisals on specific, job related behaviors

Employee Development Plans

◗ Provide a framework for career planning◗ Integrate the organization’s values, culture and strategic goals◗ Encourage empowered self development and enable employees to

take responsibility for their own growth and career path◗ Create individual accountability for performance management◗ Focus on action planning to create tangible results and real

performance improvement◗ A tool for retaining talented employees by providing learning and

development opportunities that won’t exist in other organizations

◗ Employee Development Plans show employees that the organization is committed to their success, provides opportunities to advance and is a great place to work

Leadership Role in Talent Management

◆ Supervisors and managers become Talent Managers as well as business process managers

◆ Developers of “engaged workforce” that is committed to organizational mission, values, culture and meeting high performance standards

◆ Accountable and rewarded for growing talent

◆ Talent coaches, mentors, facilitators

◆ Resource providers

Leaders as Talent Managers

Protect“Re-Recruit” key

performers; market the organization & career

opportunities

ExpectSet clear standards

for performanceand conduct

ConnectEngage employees

in their work, mission values

and future

SelectRecruit employeeswith talents that

match performance requirements

Strategic Talent Management

◆ A strategic plan for the company’s talent needs.

◆ Places the right people with the right skills and abilities in the right positions at the right time.

◆ Provides people with a career path and the resources to develop the skills they and the company need to achieve success.

◆ Starts with people where they are today and looks to where they need to be as the company moves forward.

• Better hiring decisions • Increased productivity • Improved motivation • Higher performance • Greater commitment • More effective teamwork • Clearer communication • Improved customer service & satisfaction • Pay for results

Benefits of Talent Management

BusinessStrategy

TalentStrategy

Exceptional Results

Exceptional results can be achieved when talent strategy and business strategy are in alignment.

Traits

SkillsKnowledge

Talent

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