What is talent management?

Talent management is a process that emerged in the 1990s and continues to be adopted, as more companies come to realize that their employees talents and skills drive their business success. These companies develop plans and processes to track and manage their employee talent, including the following: Attracting and recruiting qualified candidates with competitive backgrounds Managing and defining competitive salaries Training and development opportunities Performance management processes Retention programs Promotion and transitioning

Why talent management? Workforce cost is the largest category spend for most organizations. Automation and analysis of your recruiting and hiring processes provides the immediate workforce visibility and insights you need to significantly improve your bottom line.

Talent management requires strong

executive support, along with systems and processes all directed towards having the right talent doing the right work at the right time. That s when talent truly drives higher business performance.

Benefits of implementing a talent management programmanagement program Providing these resources helps your employees achieve their best individual potential, and it helps your business respond to challenges, enter new markets and move ahead of the competition. A company with a talented and successful work force can develop a public reputation for being a great place to work, which fosters loyalty among current employees. Talented candidates will also be more interested in working for a company that values its employees and gives them opportunities for continued success.

Strategies of talent management program Strategies for talent management

Talent Management, usuallyreferred as Human Capital Management, is the process recruiting, managing, assessing, developing and maintaining an organization's most important resource it's people! The typical strategies include:1. Merge talent management data by having incorporated exceptional capabilities in

learning, performance, and compensation management software 2. Automate the talent management process into an online solution there by reducing

time and costs of performance reviews. 3. Recognize and close employee performance gaps by instantly turning automated

performances appraisals into training development plans. 4. Align training demand with performance needs and strategic goals directly there

by reducing time and money spent on non-strategic training activities. 5. Eliminate conflicting evaluation criteria by applying a standardized solution that

impose consistent language, feedback, and evaluation criteria 6. Use reliable, fair pay-for-performance initiatives

Purpose: Purpose Identifying star performers at various levels

Developing and Retaining them

Putting the plan into action: Putting the Plan Into Action Identify the talent programs that correspond to the recruit/develop/deploy/retain vRecruit

Internal / external recruiting, on-boarding programs vDevelopment

Internal recruiting, learning and development, performance management vRetention

On-boarding, learning and development, rewards and recognition programs

challenges of the talent management program: Challenges of talent management Attracting and retaining enough employees at all levels to meet the needs of organic and inorganic growth. Creating a value proposition that appeals to multiple generations. Developing a robust leadership pipeline. Rounding out the capabilities of hires who lack the breadth of necessary for global leadership. Transferring key knowledge and relationships. Redesigning talent management practices to attract and retain Gen Y's. Creating a workplace that is open to Boomers in their "second careers. Overcoming a "norm" of short tenure and frequent movement Enlisting executives who don't appreciate the challenge.

The finance value of tament management program: Increase Revenue

Customer satisfaction Improve quality Increase productivity Reduce Cost Reduce Cycle time Increase Return to Shareholders and Market Capitalization

Talent Management And HR Talent manngement and hr: Talent management suddenly evoked the charm and attention for the business world. Much of the reason may be due to the fact that technology has finally begun to catch up. Human resource management systems (HRMS) providers, already present in many businesses, have begun to create add-on applications that provide a strategic layer on top of the more administrative HR functionalities they already offer. It seems obvious then that the functions that make up talent management can no longer be viewed independently, or hidden in HR or training departments if they are to be truly successful. Rather, talent management must be counterfeit from a true partnership between management and the departments that oversee the "people function.

conclusion:
Conclusion Failures in talent management are mainly due to the mismatch between the supplies and demand not due to the failure in the concept. We need a new way of thinking about the talent management challenge. Talent management is not an end in itself. It is not about developing employees or creating succession plans. Nor is it about achieving specific benchmarks like a five percent turnover rate, having the most educated workforce, or any other tactical outcome. The goal of talent management is the much more general, but the most important task of TM is to help the organization to achieve its overall objectives.