Executive Development

Talent Management

Mission

Talent Management as a component of strategic management becomes increasingly important in order to ensure a company's long-term success. We assist our clients to set up and establish sustainable, customized and mainly internationally oriented talent management programs, which are in line with corporate strategy.

Why Talent Management?

- To counter lack of visibility and knowledge of internal high calibres and top performers - To prevent vacant key positions being filled too frequently with external candidates - To avoid discrepancies between competences required in key positions in the future and the currently available skills - To counter lack of knowledge of the strategic need for successors and the career perspectives within the company - To prevent loss of know-how as a result of excessive fluctuation of high calibres and top performers - Identification, assessment and development of both internal as well as external high calibres and top performers in preparation for medium and long-term assumption of a key position at senior and executive level - Securing the necessary management resources for future internal succession arrangements For our client - Systematic identification and specific development of core competences required for the future - Efficient and effective staff promotion, as well as succession planning with monitoring of success - Expression of recognition and esteem to stimulate motivation and assure the long-term retention of high calibres and top performers in the company - Provision of a basis for objective decision-making on career planning and forthcoming succession arrangements - Reduction of recruitment costs incurred as a result of filling key positions with external candidates - Improvement of the company image and attractiveness on the employment market For the participant - Objective, personal assessment of potential - Individual development and career planning - Networking and interdisciplinary exchange of experience and culture - Raising personal sense of responsibility and awareness for individual development - Improving the decision-makers' knowledge of the high calibres and top performers within the company

Goals

Benefits

Procedure

The project is divided into three main steps, in which we assume full or partial responsibility, depending on the requirements of our client: Analysis - Briefing on our client's current situation (company and HR strategy, company culture, stakeholders, etc.) - Definition of the goals and results to be achieved by talent management - Verification of existing development processes, instruments and succession arrangements - Elaboration of a general concept for talent management including a detailed project plan

Design - Development of the fundamentals (key roles, competency model, talent profile, crucial succession paths) - Preparation of a client specific talent management process, as well as detailed procedures - Building up of the organization (roles, responsibilities) and filling of the positions - Assistance in formulating a communications concept - Development of the instruments used in talent management

Implementation - Preparation, training and coaching of our client's internal process owners - Assistance with internal communications at all levels - Implementation of the project in close collaboration with the persons responsible within our client's organization - Monitoring of success

Talent Management Programme

The procedures and instruments described in the following modules can be combined, adapted and broadened in accordance with the client's strategic guidelines and specific requirements, thus guaranteeing a tailor-made talent management programme. Identification Internal candidates - Internal identification and recommendations - Evaluation of potential - Assessment of current performance External candidates - Comprehensive search and selection process for recruitment at home and abroad Nomination - Compilation of a short list from internal and/or external candidates - Confirmation by our client's decision-makers

Identification Talent Management Corporate Strategy

HR Strategy

Succession Planning

Development

Evaluation

Talent Management Programme (continued)

Evaluation Assessment of potential - Individual assessment processes lasting one day or more - Group assessment processes lasting one day or more Performance evaluation - 360-Feedback Development planning - Individual career planning - Agreement on specific development measures Development Individual development - Internal / external training and further education - Individual coaching and mentoring - On-the-job training with job rotation and international assignments - Project work - Taking over of a new or extended area of responsibility Talent Pool - Training modules on specific topics for members of the talent management programme - Events to foster the internal/external networking - Project work Succession Planning Planning - Quantitative and qualitative identification of the need for qualified employees along the crucial succession paths Monitoring - Active tracking of development progress (e.g. by efficiency analysis) - Periodic reassessment of future requirements in management resources and verification of crucial succession path - Adjustments to content and structure of the talent management programme Promotion - Specific nomination of members from the talent management programme in the context of succession arrangements

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