Those involved with recruitment and selection, coaching and mentoring, developing and advising fast-stream, talented joiners and those identified as high-flyers in middle management.

All organisations are looking for gifted, motivated and loyal staff. They recognise this as a major key to their future success.

But what is talent? Where you find it? How can you measure it? And what are the issues in managing talented individuals? Are talent types particularly prone to breakdown? Can you take ‘average types’ and exploit their talent?

This course will answer these questions by bringing together findings from many of the social sciences, particularly organisational psychology.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• describe the characteristics of talented people
• measure the abilities, preferences and values of individuals in order to evaluate talent
• use various empirically tested conceptual models of
  • acreativity
  • personality disorders
  • cognitive ability
  • social intelligences
• explain where to recruit talented individuals
• consider the implications of managing, coaching and developing fast-stream high-flyers.
• assess some of the special needs with regards to rewarding talented individuals and their possibly special reward packages.