Linking Talent With Organization Growth

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Talent is the very core of corporate success. It is easy to give products or services all the credit, yet behind a company’s offering are people that made it all possible. The quality of people behind an organization will dictate its success; retaining talent and developing them over time further sustains it. Longevity today is not all about size or influence, but about eagerness to learn and adapt to business trends. The need to get the right people is the foundation of corporate success. Competent people build learning organizations: A flexible business entity ready, willing, and able to change for the better.

It has always been about people

In the industrial age, people were seen as mere labor-to-man machines involving manual work. But through time the role of people in organizations changed. They are hired to think, reflecting the very consumers the organizations are serving. This changed the way people are valued and utilized in organizations. They became capital, not just resources. This change in paradigm made talent management necessary where people are used to seize competitive advantage and not just run manufacturing lanes.

The race for the best in the industry

The war for talent is on as organizations experience talent shortages and with too many competing firms creating attractive offers. Today’s job seekers are well informed and have a more dynamic take on their employment. They are not only looking for stability, but also the chance to embrace the freedom to learn more and be more in their line of work. This presents a challenge to organizations and shows the complex undertaking of winning the hearts and minds of ideal job candidates. Head hunting, even poaching, is getting more common as organizations desperately seek out people that can contribute to its thrust toward growth and expansion. There’s no better way to prepare for the company’s success than by securing the right people who have the skills, experience, and right attitude to deliver results.

Sustaining success with people

With exemplary creative teams in an ideation-centered industry, you can be sure to carry on your success for a long time as long as you have that team intact through the years. The idea is pretty simple. People provide you with a long-term supply of innovation that perfectly understands your business, your customers, and your industry. With this team you will be able to deliver the best service or product there is. While this competitive advantage cannot easily be replicated, you can easily sustain it.

Talent management and technology

Talent management is a necessary undertaking in maximizing talent and realizing growth projections. This is why effective management of acquired talent is very important. With its complex functions doing it manually can be extensive work. However, there are integrated systems today that usher the effective execution of hiring processes, performance management, training and development, and compensation. Applicant hiring systems are easy to tap for organizational use. It can easily change the way you hire and manage people as soon as they start working for you.

By Sean Fahey