The Talent Strategy Group

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Building Great
Talent Managers:
The 4+2 Model

It’s a rare individual who can architect, build and execute talent strategies that actually drive business results. We describe the six factors that differentiate great talent managers and why they’re essential for success.

Article, Talent Management Process Design

Potential After the Pandemic

Should you change your definition of potential given the workplace changes after the pandemic? While the intuitive answer to that question after two years of turmoil would seem to be “yes,” the facts about potential guide us to a more nuanced conclusion.

Video

Be Transparent Now Video

Why aren’t companies transparent with their employees about their performance and potential? I tell you the excuses we hear and the way to overcome those.

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Article

Becoming a Talent6 Leader: The 6 Differentiators of Talent-building Leaders

Your leaders are your most powerful builders of talent. So why aren’t you using them that way?

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The CEO’s Three Questions About Talent

The CEO was visibly frustrated just a few minutes into the CHRO’s presentation.
“I’m sorry, but I’m confused” she said. “This feels like the 10th different process that HR has asked our teams to absorb just this year. Why this one now?”

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Webinar

The Success Model Webinar

Your company’s success relies on your leaders’ ability to deliver the few, differentiating capabilities that your strategy requires. A Success Model captures those capabilities in a succinct and powerful way. It’s easy to implement because managers instantly understand its brief, engaging and aspirational statements. During the webinar, you will learn the three things that make a success model the simple, powerful approach to define success for your leaders.

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Research

CHRO Trends 2021 Report

Our fourth edition of the Chief Human Resources Officer report reviews trends in the CHRO marketplace and introduces the Fortune 200’s new CHROs from 2020. The Fortune 200 welcomed 27 new Chief Human Resources Officers in 2020, a turnover of nearly 15%.

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The Power
of Goal Calibration

It’s a simple, powerful way to increase the effectiveness of goal setting at your company. Goal calibration helps to align goals within your group and helps the group’s manager to ensure all goals are set at a similar level of challenge. And, when done well, goal calibration can crush potential bias that tries to creep […]

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Research

2021 Talent Management Compensation Report

We’re pleased to bring you our latest research with all the facts about talent management compensation in 2021. Our report includes compensation insights from 101 companies and shows the average compensation for talent management, L&D and OD/OE roles, and compensation by company revenue for many TM and L&D levels. Read the full report here More […]