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Talent Planning - Best Practice Guide
Talent Planning - Best Practice Guide
Talent Planning - Best Practice Guide
Knowledge
Execution
People
77% of CEOs are concerned 58% of execs say having 41% of execs believe that
that skills shortages could better insight into talent difficulty attracting and
hinder their organisations could improve profitability retaining talent is the
growth greatest risk they will face in
the next 12 months
A robust talent management process is a critical component of any human capital strategy. To be
effective, the talent management process needs to be driven and facilitated by business and HR leaders.
Talent review meetings are a key component of the talent management process.
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Be data driven
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Relationship Management
The following considerations are important when considering talent, complete this
document with your Exco to support your Talent Meeting
Economic Environment
Key relevant economic indicators/ outlook
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Follow Up
• Follow up on agreed actions
• Reflect on any 9 box trends
• Complete Succession Planning template and submit succession
nominations
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9-Box Definitions
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IMPACT Is the employee performing the work and achieving expected results?
Be aware of biases
What you should know ? What you should do ?
• Biases become escalated when were stressed or • Be aware of your biases and those of the people
in a hurry you work with
• Unconscious bias influences our decisions and • Avoid use of “like me/us” comparisons
behaviours in ways so subtle that they • Manage assumptions by checking and reframing
completely escape our notice based on specific examples
• Awareness of bias And how it can influence • Everyone who participates on a talent
decisions can help us limit impacts on our own discussion in accountable for inclusion of all
behaviour people
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Affinity bias The Tendency to ‘warm’ to people who are like yourself. • Similar values
This is also called similarity error or ‘like-me’ effect • Same background, university, skills
Perception bias The tendency to believe one thing about a group of people • Pre-judgment of certain behaviours or styles
based on stereotypes and assumptions, making it
impossible to be objective about individuals
Negative and The tendency to peg individuals higher or lower than their • Provide positive / negative feedback just to get
positive skew performance actually warrants him/her prompted/ not promoted
Halo effect The tendency to seek to think that everything about a • Recalling the one bad/good thing an individual
person is good simply because you like them. does really well
Confirmation bias The tendency to seek to confirm your pre-existing ideas • Past achievements/failures
and assumptions about a group of people • Good/bad things from any other year
Recency effect The tendency for events that have happened recently to • Bad experience in the past
have more influence on the decisions than major events
in the past
Group think The tendency to try too hard to fit into an existing culture, • Generalisation held true about an individual or
mimicking others and holding back thoughts or opinions, group which is not challenged
resulting in loss of identity and lost creativity and
innovation
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A group of employees who are located in the same box might indicate
a trend that needs monitoring or the need for additional development
focus
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Talent Scorecard
Talent Progress Indicators
Hi Potential Turnover
Individual Improvement
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Any questions?
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