Building and Leading a Talent Management System: Certification Course
1Summary
Every company says it wants to keep its best people, but few have an actual system behind that ambition — just scattered performance reviews and an org chart nobody trusts for succession. This Training Course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy gives HR professionals, managers, and organisational leaders a structured framework for defining, assessing, developing, and retaining talent, built around three interlocking pillars: performance management, talent review, and talent development.
Through real case studies and hands-on workshops, participants learn to align a talent strategy with business goals, build competency-based selection and assessment tools, design succession and coaching plans, and judge whether their organisation is actually ready to run an integrated talent management system — not just talk about one.
2Objectives and target group
Who Should Attend?
- HR managers and practitioners seeking advanced expertise in talent management.
- Organisational leaders and executives involved in workforce planning.
- Recruitment specialists and talent acquisition professionals.
- Learning and development managers.
- Business owners and entrepreneurs looking to strengthen their teams.
Programme Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Explain how talent management processes influence organisational success, and apply practical acquisition and recruitment strategies.
- Build competency frameworks and assessment tools to review, select, and develop talent.
- Apply performance management techniques that drive productivity and satisfaction, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
- Design succession plans, coaching approaches, and career development paths tied to organisational needs.
- Use HR analytics to make objective, data-driven talent management decisions.
- Assess organisational readiness and build a realistic roadmap toward an integrated talent management system.
3Course Content
- Module 1: How Organisations Actually Define and Value Talent
- The rationale behind talent management, and the differentiation versus inclusive approaches.
- Current challenges facing talent management systems, and the case for a holistic, integrated approach.
- Aligning talent strategy with the organisation's broader strategy, using tools such as strategy maps and internal environment analysis.
- Module 2: Building the System's Foundation — Selection and Consistency
- Selection criteria: the language of competencies and the validity of assessment tools.
- Career development concepts as part of the selection framework.
- Internal consistency: the reliability of performance management systems, compensation differentiation, and the importance of cultural fit and diversity.
- Module 3: Pillar One — Measuring Performance and Potential
- Quantitative versus qualitative performance management systems.
- Differentiating between performance and potential, and how potential is defined.
- The value-system, competency-based, and integrated approaches to performance management.
- Module 4: Pillar Two — Reviewing and Assessing Talent
- Identification and validation criteria for high-potential talent.
- Assessing proficiency, ability, drivers, and personality.
- Assessment frameworks, and the role of assessment and development centres and their activities.
- Module 5: Pillar Three — Developing Talent and Planning Succession
- Stages of career development and an integrated development and training approach.
- Stakeholders in talent development: the roles of talent, management, and HR.
- Tracking progress, coaching talent, and building succession planning charts.
- Module 6: Are You Ready? Organisational Readiness and the Way Forward
- Assessing your organisation's readiness level and its implications for HR processes.
- Talent acquisition branding and employee value proposition.
- The onboarding process, learning and development, and building a talent management strategy.