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Being a Talent Centric Organisation

Our Annual Symposium took place at Wentworth last week to explore more deeply the subject “A Talent Centric Organisation”. We were delighted to have secured our strongest speaker line-up to date, with Ian Ruddy (O2), Prof Chris Roebuck (Cass Business School), Kate Rider and Michael Maynard (Maynard Lee), Stella Estevez (National Grid) and with Terry Lockhart (Consultant) returning after such positive feedback on his talk at last year’s event.

There was overwhelming evidence presented by all speakers – corroborated in the afternoon breakout groups – that the way in which talent is managed directly impacts on business performance. And that talent is only going to become more critical to business performance as scarcity plays a bigger and bigger role over the coming decade, post credit crunch. What was particularly interesting was to hear how leading organisations are using mid, senior and executive management actively in talent development, and this is a marked difference to our previous events over the past few years where there was still a challenge to get senior leadership to engage with HR on this subject.

Perhaps the credit crunch has been the catalyst that HR needed, to convince senior management that talent management is not only a worthy, but a critical investment. Quite apart from stopping them from walking out of the door, modern day businesses cannot be competitive without lean, effective and engaged people, right through the organisation and not just the “top” talent.

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