IRS Conference


Talent Management Masterclass (July)

8th July 2008, Mayfair Conference Center, London

Tuesday 8 July 2008

9:00

Registration and coffee

9:30

Welcome. Alison Gill sets the scene

9:40

A decade of talent management – fashion and fad or here to stay?

• How we got here, after the ‘War for Talent’
• How to maximise the impact of people in organisations
• Why is the concept of talent management becoming more confused and more ubiquitous at the same time?
11:00

Coffee

11:30

The talent lifecycle—where to start

• There is no one right way to tackle talent management because every organisation is so different.
• Confronting the complexity of attracting, engaging, developing and retaining talent by looking at the talent lifecycle.
• How to implement positive change in your organisation, taking into account specific opportunities and challenges.
12:30

Lunch

13:30

Planning for success: how to direct talented individuals to really succeed

• How to manage the relationship between talented individuals and the organisation
• Exploring the roles played by the talent managers, senior executives, HR and line managers.
• The importance of understanding and working with individuals’ drivers, their intrinsic motivations, to align business goals with individual career plans.
15:15

Tea

15:30

How to value talent management

• Most talent programmes feel intuitively right, they add something, but we will explore how organisations can prove commercial value.
• How to apply objective investment criteria and track return.
• How to focus organisations on the critical business impact that engaged and high-performing people have.
16:15

Q&A – wrap up


The organisers reserve the right to change the programme, speakers or venue should circumstances require.
 
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