Build an Inclusive and Integrated Talent Management Strategy

Empower your people with talent management programs and engage and develop all employees.

Inefficient programs
Increased bureaucracy with limited to no benefit
Inability to achieve forecasted financial growth
Reduction in overall organizational competitiveness
Disconnected talent management initiatives that cause duplicate work and are not aligned to promote the same goals
Inability to deal with looming skills gaps

Increased efficiency, stemming from a strong foundation in competencies, allowing every area of HR to speak a common language
Increased competitiveness in the marketplace using talent as a key differentiator
Increased engagement stemming from an inclusive approach
Increased agility because of a robust structure that covers the entire employee lifecycle
More value provided from further alignment of HR with the rest of the organization, allowing better leveraging of employees in the organization

Identify how talent management can help support the goals of the organization by supporting organizational programs.
Identify what the HR department needs to do in order to increase its maturity and ability to help achieve organizational goals.
Note the tactics and initiatives that are of the highest value and should be done first.
Identify how current programs fit into the new strategy.

Specific talent management action items that HR can undertake that will directly help to achieve organizational objectives.
Knowledge of how current programs can be adjusted to help achieve new goals and fit within the new strategic framework.

Activities:		Outputs:
1.1	Talent goals cascade	Identify initiatives that will support the skill sets necessary to fulfill organizational programs, goals, and objectives
1.2	Identify talent management overarching goals and principles	A list of key goals and principles to guide the talent management strategic planning process
1.3	Conduct a gap analysis	A list of tactics that HR needs to undertake to improve its maturity
1.4	Prioritize your tactics and initiatives	A list of initiatives ranked in order of what will provide the most value to the organization in terms of helping reach organizational goals and objectives
1.5	Conduct a current project inventory	Identify how all current programs fit into the new strategy and adjust as necessary

Activities:		Outputs:
2.1	Identify interdependencies and determine support required	A list of interdependencies and how you will address them
2.2	Identify project metrics and timelines	A list of metrics and timelines to be associated with your initiatives
2.3	Finalize communication plan for stakeholder buy-in	A plan to gain buy-in from stakeholders
2.4	Develop your plan and execute strategy	A plan to execute your strategy