The term ‘war for talent’ is now commonly used to reflect the changing nature of the employment relationship and the shortage of talent in the workplace.

Talent management is an integrated process that is vertically aligned to the business, and horizontally aligned to wider HR and OD policies and practices.

Talent management strategies must focus not just on developing an oganisation’s managers and leaders of the future but also on maximising the potential and talent of every individual within the organisation.

• design and manage career systems and assessment processes to develop talent
• develop tools to identify future potential in employees
• establish learning and development processes and activities that can develop potential within individuals
• design management development programmes
• present a proposal on the business case for introducing emotional and spiritual intelligence as key competency frameworks for managing talent within your own organisation