Talent identification & management is an important requirement and process in most organisations. Effective talent management is crucial as it ensures organisations attract, develop, and retain top talent, driving innovation, productivity, and long-term success. Talent management can be broken down to four essential areas:

• Talent Acquisition (Recruitment & Selection): Strategically sourcing and onboarding top-tier talent to meet organisational needs.
• Talent Identification: Identifying high-potential individuals and nurturing their growth within the organisation.
• Talent Development: Implementing targeted programs and initiatives to enhance skills, competencies, and leadership capabilities.
• Talent Retention: Cultivating a supportive culture and implementing retention strategies to retain valuable talent and mitigate turnover.

Effective talent management hinges on maintaining objectivity and evidencing capability across all stages, fostering fairness and consistency in decision-making processes. By leveraging these principles, organisations can optimise their talent management practices driving sustainable growth and success.

Being able to identify, engage and retain talent is critical for any organisation. The cost and time required to replace talent can have significant impact, so it’s far better to develop a process and strategy to optimise talent retention. Retaining the knowledge, skills, experience and expertise of your workforce will maximise and optimise your organisational performance. It is well known that an organisation that recognises, rewards and values talent is an employer of choice, resulting in your organisation naturally attracting the very best talent.

There are a number of key benefits, including:

• Retaining your most valuable people i.e. those that make the greatest contribution
• Retaining knowledge and experience and no-time to plan knowledge transfer
• Saving time and cost to source and re-hire replacement talent can prove challenging
• Increasing your capacity and capability to deliver your product/service
• Enhancing reputation as an employer of choice.

Reward and recognition don’t just have to be financial, there are many other options available to recognise someone’s value.

The Think Eleven team brings extensive expertise optimising your talent management processes through tailored consultancy support and leveraging the tools within SkillStation. We begin the process by thoroughly assessing your current talent management practices to identify areas for enhancement and conduct a comprehensive review, including a constructive feedback session to ensure clarity and alignment with your organisational goals.

As part of our approach, we recommend the adoption of our competency management system, SkillStation - an advanced online training, skills, and competency management solution. SkillStation serves as a powerful tool to provide the evidence and objective data necessary to support your talent management strategy effectively. By leveraging SkillStation's intuitive platform, you can streamline talent development efforts and drive organisational performance and success.

Our SkillStation talent management software will provide the objective data and evidence to accurately and quickly identify your talent at every level and function of your organisation. This includes the ability to identify:

• Talent by function
• Talent by seniority
• Talent by length of service
• Talent at a specific subject level (e.g. subject matter expert)

Being able to accurately and consistently identify your talent pool will allow you develop a process and framework to manage and retain your key people, skills, knowledge and experience.