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Kogan The Talent Powered Organization Strategies for Globalization Talent Management and High Performance 2011 Edition by Robert Thomas
More than any other factor today, talent makes the difference between your organization's success and failure. Whatever your talent challenge- recruiting young technicians from the developing world, getting more from your current employees, or retaining precious experience from an ageing workforce - you must confront new realities, apply new analytical tools and develop new capabilities.The Talent Powered Organization provides a strategic and holistic view of talent and shows companies how to transform talent management from a supporting function to an essential competitive capability. It puts forth five talent imperatives that your organization must heed to succeed,put talent at the heart of your business strategymake diversity a key strategic assetbuild organizational capabilities in learning and skills developmentmake leaders and line managers accountable for engaging employeesenlist your entire organization in identifying and nurturing talent.Whatever your role in your organization - leader, functional executive, or line manager- The Talent Powered Organization will make you think about talent in a new way, and give you the framework and methods you need to create talent power for strategic success.About the AuthorPeter Cheese is the Managing Director for Accenture's Human practice globally. Robert Thomas is executive director and Elizabeth Craig is a research fellow of Accenture's Institute for High Performance Business in Boston.Table of ContentsTalent imperatives for a new economic worldA new contextThe strategic importance of talentThe need to embrace diversityThe importance of learning and skills developmentThe challenge of engagementManaging talent throughout the organizationSummaryA strategic approach to talentThe executive perspectiveHigh performance- the key driversHow to multiply talentThe HR function in the spotlightHR and talent management: an unfinished evolutionSummaryThe discovery of talentIdentifying your talent needsRecruitment: will you discover talent or drive it away?SummaryFrom talent development to deploymentNew demand for new skillsDeploying talent: managing the work strategicallyEngagementWhy engagement mattersWhat engagement meansDrivers of engagementGaining more insight on engagement - segmenting the workforceThe key ingredient of engagement- the line managersSummaryEmbedding and sustaining talent powerMeasuring talent's contribution to business performanceMeasuring process effectiveness- the concept of maturityA framework for prioritizing and measuring human capital investmentsThe transformation and reorganization of HREveryone's responsibleFailures of communicationNext steps and the new imperativesBecoming a talent-powered organizationCritical tasks for key stakeholdersConclusions- beyond talent multiplication.