Organisational Development

What We Do - Talent Management

An ageing population, deferred parenthood, increased diversity and different expectations giving way to faster staff turnover among young graduates all contribute to the famously coined phrase "war for talent". Talent management has many different approaches and each has its devotees. But, whatever the approach in your workplace, few would disagree that it's about having the right people in the right job and a supply pipeline for future leaders and managers.

With the public sector committed to the transformation of public service delivery, a talented, motivated and focussed workforce is crucial, and an effective strategy to identify, attract, develop, retain and deploy talent is key to successful organisational performance.

Where we can help you

The National School has expertise in the areas of talent management, succession planning and workforce development that will help you design, implement and manage an effective talent strategy to improve your strategic performance and organisational effectiveness. Our work in succession planning can help prepare organisations now to minimise the challenges later and align workforce development to their business objectives.

What do you find difficult?

We can work with you to:

give clarity to your approach as to "who" you choose to be developed for "talent"
help you build a talent strategy that provides clear direction and success criteria
help you define your processes for identifying and assessing talent in your organisation
help you define those jobs that are critical to the day-to-day running of your organisation for which seamless replacement is a crucial factor
maintain stability through careful succession planning

Our approach

Our starting point is to gauge where you are now and where you want to be in terms of your organisation's approach to talent management and its alignment with business objectives. This is rapidly followed by pragmatic recommendations on what you have to do to get there, benchmarked against best practice in the public sector.

The benefits to your organisation

Improved organisational effectiveness and service delivery
Stability and smoother transition during turbulent times such as mergers
Being able to do more with less
Greater employee motivation and engagement
Improved ability to deal with change
Better budget spending- money spent where you need it
Greater staff retention

For further information

We would very much welcome the opportunity to work with you. For a no-cost, no-obligation initial conversation we would be delighted to hear from you.

Please contact:
Catherine Inskip 01344 634 092, gtn 3803 4092
catherine.inskip@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk