Optimizing Talent Workbook
Building an Unbeatable Talent Brand
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2014
131 pages
978-1-62396-710-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Optimizing Talent Workbook will guide you through a hands-on, practical application of what you learned from Optimizing Talent: What Every Leader Needs to Know to Sustain the Ultimate Workforce. Not only will you learn to apply the Optimizing Talent Framework in your organization, you'll find that we've expanded on the foundation of Optimizing Talent to include the incredibly valuable topics of talent branding and neuroscience, as well as case studies of companies that have used the framework to great success. The Optimizing Talent Workbook provides a step-by-step strategic implementation approach for developing and retaining the best talent whatever your business!
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Content
- Cover
- OPTIMIZING TALENT WORKBOOK
- What people are saying about Optimizing Talent
- OPTIMIZING TALENT WORKBOOK
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1: Getting Started
- How to Use This Workbook
- What's New About This Workbook?
- Talent Branding
- Neuroscience
- Case Studies
- Chat Opportunities with the Experts
- Road Map to Success
- Who Should Use This Workbook?
- 2: Talent Branding
- Exercise 2.1: Talent Brand Assessment
- Exercise 2.2: Benefits of Talent Branding
- Internal Alignment
- Internal Operating Rigor
- External Market Recognition/Results
- Chapter Two Checklist
- Summary
- 3: Leadership and Culture
- What Comes First?
- A Symbiotic Relationship
- Breaking the Cycle: A Case Study
- What do these two assessments tell us about this organization?
- Interim Results
- What Can You Do in Your Organization?
- Exercise 3.1: Aligning Your Strategy and Values
- Exercise 3.2: Aligning Your Leadership Behaviors
- Exercise 3.3: Stop, Start, Keep
- Nominal Group Technique: How To
- Creating a GAMET Plan Goal
- Exercise 3.4: Are You Creating a Culture that Is Supportive of Talent?
- Chapter Three Checklist
- Summary
- 4: Strategic Alignment
- Key Steps to Making Strategy Actionable in Talent Terms
- Exercise 4.1: Analysis of Key Messages
- Exercise 4.2: Key Behaviors
- Exercise 4.3: Approach and Key Messages
- Chapter Four Checklist
- Summary
- 5: Talent Assessment
- Exercise 5.1: Getting Started
- GE's Session C Process of Talent Assessment
- Principles of the Talent Masters
- Steps of the Talent Assessment Process
- Assessment Interview Guide
- Chapter Five Checklist
- Summary
- 6: Performance Management
- The Fallacy (and Conundrums) of the Current Systems: How Do You Know If You Have It Right?
- Exhibit 6.1: Performance Review Components
- A. The organizational context
- B. The performance review system
- C. The performance review environment
- D. The manager
- E. The performance review form
- F. The performance review event
- G. The subordinate
- H. The feedback content
- I. Follow-up
- J. Brain-friendly process
- Exhibit 6.2: Sample Development Discussion Form
- Review of this last period
- Some Conundrums
- So Let's Stop Doing Performance Appraisals!
- A Brain-friendly Approach (Dixon et al, 2010
- Gordon 2012)
- Some of the Ways that Our Brains Feel Threatened
- Further Analysis
- Exercise 6.3: Looking to the Future
- Chapter Six Checklist
- Summary
- 7: Learning and Development
- Exercise 7.1: Your Personal Experience
- Providing Learning and Development to Your Talent
- Exercise 7.2: Ensuring that Learning Is Transferred to Action
- A Case Study: Phillips 66
- Exercise 7.3: Tell Me a Story.
- What's the Plan?
- Chapter Seven Checklist
- Summary
- 8: Human Resources Capability
- 1. Chief Cultural Officer and Cultural Promoter
- 2. Executive and Team Coach
- 3. Talent Assessor
- 4. Organizational Strategist
- 5. Talent Analyst and Insight Provider
- Exercise 8.1: The HR Talent Capability Assessment
- Exercise 8.2: Action Planning
- Exercise 8.3: Hiring for Success Interview Guide
- Exercise 8.4: Case Study
- Chapter Eight Checklist
- Summary
- 9: Data Analytics
- Steps to Get You Started on the Analytics Journey
- Exercise 9.1: Steps to a World-Class Workforce
- Words of Caution
- Chapter Nine Checklist
- Summary
- 10: Applying the Talent Optimization Framework
- Case #1 - Large Global Information Technology Organization (300,000+ employees)
- Exercise 10.1: Moving to the High-Performance Phase
- Case #2 - Small Global Software Organization (5,000 employees)
- Table 10.1: From.To
- Exercise 10.2: Making the Talent System Sustainable
- Summary
- 11: The Last Word: Results and Conclusions
- Making Talent Optimization a Lasting Part of Your Business Equation
- Your Talent Brand and Results
- Roadmap to Success!
- Chapter Two Checklist
- Chapter Three Checklist
- Chapter Four Checklist
- Chapter Five Checklist:
- Chapter Six Checklist
- Chapter Seven Checklist
- Chapter Eight Checklist
- Chapter Nine Checklist
- Parting Thoughts
- Contributing Experts
- Appendix
- Exhibit 5.1: Sample Assessment Interview
- Beginning
- Education and Training
- Work History/Experience
- Self-assessment of Strengths and Development Areas
- Plans and Goals for the Future
- Ambitions Independent/Dependent
- Outside Interests
- Closing
- Reference Checking Model
- Reference Checking Questions
- Reference Checking Model
- Exercise 6.1: HR Review
- Exercise 6.2: Managers' and Leaders' Review
- References
