Talent Management Essentials

Acquiring and retaining talented staff can make all the difference to the success of a business. This course will introduce you to this field and strategies for ensuring that your team contains as many talented individuals as possible. After completing this course, you will be able to demonstrate to employers that you can gather and keep talent within their business.

Why do this course?

• Looks great on your CV
• Shows recruiters you have the skills they are looking for
• Gives you a great grounding in team management

Basics 

• This course helps clarify talent management's key role in helping an organisation perform at its peak.
• It introduces and defines talent management, describing key concepts related to it.
• It also points to why effectively managing talent is so important.
• In addition, this course identifies the key activities associated with talent management and describes the roles played by managers in implementing a talent management strategy.

Planning

• This course describes some of the challenges of managing talent, which you should keep in mind as you create your talent plan.
• It discusses how your talent needs are impacted by various factors in the organisation.
• The course also describes the components of a talent plan – the road map for attracting and keeping the types of people your organisation desires.

Acquiring Talent

• This course describes two approaches to talent acquisition – hiring internally and hiring from outside – and explains the best situations in which to use each.
• It provides examples of how to implement an effective talent recruiting strategy and outlines how to conduct interviews that result in the selection of talented individuals who fit in the organisation.

Developing and Engaging Talent 

• This course describes how to begin building employee commitment with an effective onboarding process that creates a positive first impression.
• It also covers how to create individual development plans that prepare employees for higher levels of responsibility and keep them challenged.
• In addition, the course outlines ways to engage employees so they continue to deliver superior performance.

Retaining Talent 

• This course highlights the importance and benefits of putting effort into retaining talented individuals.
• It also covers ways to determine the causes of talent departure and effectively manage talent retention by using strategies that foster job satisfaction.

What’s included?

• Hands-on interactive exercises - learn by doing

In partnership with Skillsoft

reed.co.uk has partnered with SkillSoft, the world’s leading provider of eLearning, to offer you all the quality training you need. You will be learning on SkillSoft software. SkillSoft is the world leader in e-learning for businesses, and is used by multinational companies such as FedEx, Hilton, VirginMedia and Hewlett Packard. By training with SkillSoft you will be working with an industry recognised organisation and investing in training that employers already know and trust.

Please note:

Please allow 24 hours to receive your online training details. If your order is made over the weekend, your online training details will be provided on the following Monday morning.

This SkillSoft course is not aligned to any certification or exam - it is a course to teach knowledge and skills.

This course is designed specifically for for use on desktop browsers. Performance on mobile devices may vary and compatibility with non-desktop devices is not guaranteed.