Transforming high potentials into future leaders: Identify, develop and retain your top talent in a rapidly changing world
Download a PDF of this articleBenefits to your organization
- Attract the brightest talent
- Protect your investment in people
- Address real business challenges
- Encourage collaboration and innovation
How we help you build a successful and sustainable top-talent pipeline
Identify
- Define objectives – developing leadership capability, increasing employee engagement, helping key individuals achieve their full potential
- Distinguish clearly between performance and potential
- Define clear selection criteria – from, for example, self-awareness and organizational citizenship and to ambition and agility
- Use predictive data – from network analysis and performance monitoring and reviews to non-traditional sources of data and external benchmarking
Develop
- Align your approach with business needs and requirements
- Tailor the program to suit individual profiles and personalities
- Align organizational imperatives with individual goals and objectives
- Define individual development plans and be flexible and agile in their execution
Retain
- Consistently create new opportunities to satisfy the restlessness and ambition of aspirational high potentials
- Make them feel both supported and challenged
- Align their learning pathway with their career progression
- Use psychometric tools and structured assessments to increase their self-awareness and to provide them with insight and understanding of the progress they are making