Talent Management – Finding Our Way without a Map
By Michelle Malay Carter on October 20, 2007
My family will be eating food on a toothpick for breakfast, lunch, and dinner this week, as no one showed at my party last night.? Could it have been the directions?
It seems organizations are having the same issue with Talent Management.? Everyone wants to go there, but without a common language and total-systems model to integrate the pieces, it’s easy to lose people and impossible to get consistent application of processes.? Inconsistency leads to unfairnesss which shoots employee engagement in the foot.
I can’t imagine operating in a world without universal measurements for distance, weight, and temperature, or a common language for direction, colors or?emotions,?but we?are without measurements and common language?in the world of management every day.
There is a way to measure the complexity level of roles and categorize and compare them across divisions, organizations and continents.? And there is a way to judge human potential capability to work at these varying levels of complexity.?? Further, understanding these two elements allows for organizational design that aligns with the work that needs to be done and people’s ability to do it.? It’s a total-system approach.? One employees deserve, and managers will applaud.
I’m OK.? You’re OK.? Let’s fix the system.
Filed Under Employee Engagement, Executive Leadership, Managerial Leadership, Organization Design, Requisite Organization, Talent Management
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