The Talent-Powered Organization

The Talent Powered Organization is a comprehensive review of the trends that are elevating talent management to the top of the corporate agenda. Whether recruiting young technicians from the developing world, retaining valuable experience from an ageing generation of employees or integrating Generation Y into the workforce, executives confront a maelstrom of talent issues. This book provides current examples of best practices and critical imperatives for attracting, retaining and multiplying talent in the new global economy.

Authored by three recognized leaders in the field of talent management—Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas and Elizabeth Craig from Accenture—The Talent Powered Organization is the first in the field to provide a thorough and holistic perspective on how to respond to these new challenges on a global scale. The book lays out best practices and offers numerous case studies that illuminate every dimension of managing people, from defining talent requirements and their critical links to business strategy, to innovative ways of sourcing, building and deploying talent at the right time and in the right roles, and accounting for and measuring investments in talent.

The Talent Powered Organization is the only book to present a strategic and holistic view of talent. It expands the talent management agenda—from a narrow and tactical focus on human resources activities around the employee life cycle, to a broad and strategic focus on highly integrated systems of capabilities fundamental to business strategies and operations.

The book provides a direct link between talent management and high performance by incorporating two of the three basic building blocks of high performance. Talent multiplication is one of the winning mindsets that make up a performance anatomy. But when talent-powered organizations embed the multiplier mindset and practices into their strategies, processes and operations, talent multiplication moves from a key competitive mindset to an important and distinctive source of competitive advantage—a critical element in a top performer's distinctive capability.

The book identifies a holistic system of talent multiplication based on four key capabilities:

• Defining talent needs based on a clear understanding of mission-critical jobs and key workforce skills and competencies, and in light of current and future strategic goals.
  
  
• Discovering new sources of talent by seeking out diverse talent pools, considering novel options for accessing needed talent, and offering customized value propositions to current and prospective employees.
  
  
• Developing talent's potential by building individual skills, knowledge and competencies in ways that expand the organization's collective capabilities.
  
  
• Deploying the right talent in the right place at the right time to align employees' strengths and aspirations with the organization's goals.

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