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How healthy are UK organisations’ talent strategies?


www.personneltoday.com | Mark Lamswood

The overall maturity of UK organisations’ talent management programmes is lagging behind that of global peers, but there is evidence that employers are beginning to explore areas of development and innovation.

Cornerstone has developed a Talent Health Index, which gives employers insight into how they fare across seven dimensions of talent health: culture and technology, skills strategy, learning and development, content strategy, performance management, talent mobility and talent reporting, data and analytics.

An organisation is then given an overall score out of 112, which places them into one of four levels of talent health:

  • Foundational: organisations that have the “building blocks” of a talent programme in place and meet the basic talent needs of their employees and the business. These are usually ad-hoc and compliance-driven strategies, and do not prioritise the identification of existing or required skills
  • Administrative: organisations that have established a foundation for their talent programmes and are starting to explore more strategic initiatives. Administrative talent programmes go beyond compliance and offer some skill-building opportunities for employees, but skills have yet to become a common language across the organisation.
  • Sophisticated: employers that have taken great strides in developing a strategic talent programme and establishing processes, and have a strong learning culture that uses some analytics to meet employees’ development…

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