Attracting talented people is only half the job — keeping them, developing them and preparing them for what comes next is where most organizations actually struggle. Talent acquisition, appointment and management is one of the most critical HR functions, requiring a set of strategies that help an organization meet both its current and future need for capable staff. This course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy gives participants practical, up-to-date tools for searching, selecting and developing talented people, and for designing a talent management system that fits their own organization.

The course also draws on recognized best practices in managerial performance, including a well-known Harvard analysis (January 2011) that identified three areas the world's best managers focus on: productive impact, building the networks needed to secure resources for performance, and improving team performance — skills participants apply directly to how they manage and grow talent.

Who Should Attend?

• Administrative leaders and department managers.
• Officials in HR development and talent development departments.
• Managers and partners in HR departments, and direct line managers.
• Professionals in supervisory and managerial positions, including HR and talent management specialists with at least three years of institutional experience.

After completing the program, participants will be able to:

• Explain what talent management means and how it relates to succession planning.
• Develop a talent management vision and identify competency-based programs for developing talent.
• Identify talent, use talent-assessment processes, and recognize the individuals worth retaining and how to keep them.
• Lead talent-review meetings, prepare an incentive plan, and communicate effectively with high-potential talent.
• Build development strategies, and use models for evaluating the talent management function itself.

Module 1: What Talent Management Really Means

• The concept of talent management, and its core components.
• The purpose behind talent management, and how companies define talent.

Module 2: Finding and Keeping the Right People

• Mechanisms for discovering talent and skills.
• The importance of managing talent, and the characteristics of talented individuals.
• Retention strategies, and the employee onboarding process.

Module 3: Strategy, Evaluation and Succession

• Strategies for managing talent and skills, and building a talent management strategy.
• Evaluating talent, and monitoring the level of improvement.
• Coaching talent, and succession-planning charts.

Module 4: Is Your Organization Ready?

• Organizational readiness and the future plan, and evaluating your organization's readiness.
• Implications for HR processes and the HR department.
• The talent-acquisition brand and value proposition.

Module 5: Learning and Development

• Learning and development as the engine of talent growth.

Module 6: The Leadership Skillset Behind Talent Management

• Big-picture thinking and holistic problem-solving.
• The ability to influence, and self-awareness as a core component of emotional intelligence.
• Applying the right leadership approach, performance coaching, and facilitation.
• Problem-solving and decision-making, building formal and informal networks, and effective communication.
• Improving team performance and leveraging diversity.