Postgraduate Certificate in Talent and Career Management

This postgraduate level qualification provides leading, research based insights and tools to review and create strategic talent management and career development strategies, to help private and public sector organisations achieve and sustain success.

Talent management is essential and very current for human resources in its efforts to add value to any organisations' business objectives. It draws together how to attract, develop, retain and ensure you have the right leadership in place for future success.

Career Management recognises that engaging and seeking to understand and deliver what employees want and need will build retention and ensure talent is not wasted, and many leading organisations are now realising this.

The qualification addresses the multi-faceted context of the demand for performance – more from less – and the need to balance this with the needs and desires for achievement and structure from individuals and groups in the workplace. Using leading tools and techniques students are encouraged to align their coursework with initiatives currently going on in their job.

The Postgraduate Certificate in Talent and Career Management can also be provided in-house. This is a cost-effective approach if you have a number of people who require training. You choose where and when you want our trainers to deliver.

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Module 1

Day One
• Overview of the qualification programme structure and planning
• Completing a talent management audit
• Key research on talent management in organisations
• External context – using the PESTLE model to identify influential external factors including political, economic. social and technological background
• Sources of information and critical review process
• CIPD market outlook survey case study.

Day Two
• Career management – alternative theory and strategies
• Case study – social networking
• Barriers to be overcome and making the business case
• Internal context – global organisation
• Researching your own organisation
• Assignment preparation.

Module 2

Day One
Research quiz
The learning organisation
Competencies – the base for job profiling and skill assessment
How development works – the research
• gap analysis for development planning
• constructing a development plan
• development tracking, coaching and ROI
• giving and receiving feedback
360 feedback – essentials
Case study on high-potential succession planning.

Day Two
Talent management software
Learning agility as an assessment of potential
• performance vs potential
Succession planning
• talent review
• nine process box matrix
Performance management
• appraisal, current research
• line management role
• objective setting and development
Role of coaching
• coaching skills
• how to choose, evaluate and manage coaching relationship.

Module 3

Day One
• Where am I now in my career?
• Career management in context – organisational support
• Career management audit
• Career paths in organisations
• Key skills in career coaching
• Schein’s career anchors
• Contracting
• Rapport building
• Active listening
• Case study exercise – introduction of a career management system.

Day Two
Practical issues
• career management in recession
• external vs internal coaching
• boundaries and supervision
Tools for helping the client and coach
Communication style exercise
Assessment and guidance tools (including MBTI, Holland, personality, interest and aptitude questionnaire)
Career management within organisations
• reputation management
• personal branding
• networking theory and practice
Personal action planning.

This qualification is ideal if you are already in or seek to move into a talent management and/or career management area of responsibility, or if you’re in a related function such as learning and development or recruitment. You may also be seeking to develop coaching or consulting skills.

Course delegates come from a wide range of industries, in both private and public sectors, and increasingly talent specialists from Europe Middle East and Africa have taken part in this course, joining a growing international talent network for the future.