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Are you looking for inspiration and practical solutions to take your talent management programme to the next level?

Wherever you are on the 'talent journey' this one-day event will offer you inspirational new ideas, challenge your current thinking and give you the opportunity to focus on where your priorities should be.

Find out how to:

- Invest in talent to secure the long term health of your organisation

- Attract, retain and develop talent, vital in today's current economic climate

- Achieve practical solutions to take your talent management programme to the next level

- Challenge your current thinking and gain inspirational new ideas 

Here are just some of the themes we are hearing:

• What’s the best way to ensure that our talented people gain a clear perception of their strengths and development areas?
• Organisations are using voluntary work to engage and retain key staff and talent.  Great idea – but how do we go about this?
• What exactly do we mean by talent?  And should I be targeting specific individuals and groups – or developing a ‘talent-ful’ organisation?
• We know it’s important to ensure that our talent is engaged?  So how can we get a clear sense of their levels of engagement?
• The demographic mix is changing and we understand that Generation Y offers different challenges and rewards.  How can we better understand how to harness their full potential?

These questions and others will be addressed at a one day Talent Management Workshop on 14 November.  The workshop leaders will be Helena Clayton, Director of Open Programmes and Sharon Brockway, Principal Consultant, who between them have many years experience of helping organisations with their talent management issues.  The day will offer the chance to hear the latest thinking, practical case studies and to learn from shared experience.

Programme:

 09:00            Registration and coffee

 09:30            Overview

                     Helena Clayton, Director of Open Programmes and Events

 10:00            Engaging young leaders through development

                     Sharon Brockway, Principal Consultant 

10:40            Developing young talent at Ramboll Whitbybird

                    Lisa Moynihan, HR and IT Director, Ramboll Whitbybird

11:20   Break 

11:40            Coaching for Talent – optional or integral?

        Elizabeth Crosse, Head of L & D, Legal Services Commission 

The LSC Accelerated Leadership Programme (Talent) is now in its third year.  The role coaching plays has evolved from being an optional element to an integral part of the process.  We use coaching at every stage of the process and we train members of the programme to be coaches as the ability to develop others is a key requirement for all our leaders.

The purpose of this session is to share with you the successes and challenges in using coaching to support delegates:

·         Get in – decide whether to apply for the programme and to encourage applications from BME groups

·         Get on – helps members get the most out of the opportunities offered by the programme

·         Give back – develop coaching skills to enhance their effectiveness as leaders and coaches and mentor others with potential

12:40         Discussion 

1:00            Lunch 

14:00          Board level volunteering: an effective tool for talent retention

                  Sarah Hodgkinson, Chief Executive, Getting on Board 

• What is board level volunteering?
• The benefits of board-level volunteering for employees and employers – why do employers support it?
• How board-level volunteering can improve retention

During this session you will have the chance to hear from Faye Sephton, Head of BT Shops Without Walls who has participated as a Board Level Volunteer and will share the benefits for her and her organisation.

 14:45            Session:  Talented or Talentful?

This session is designed to explore two very different approaches to talent management – we will hear from an organisation who have developed a programme that all employees can apply to join and another who have chosen to focus on a group of high performers. 

Helena will facilitate this session offering the opportunity to debate the different approaches used by these organisations and for participants to share their own experience.   

            Creating a Talent Management Programme at Amey

            Scott Hobbs, Head of Talent

This session will explore the scheme that Amey have implemented and how they have built momentum behind a self nomination talent programme and gained support and buy-in from the organisation’s senior leaders.  Scott will give an honest view of some of the pitfalls and the successes they have experienced in moving from a standing start to having a very successful programme that won the Personnel Today award for talent management in just over 12 months.

Developing Future Leaders at the National Audit Office

Pat Taylor, Head of Talent Management 

This session looks at the why the NAO decided to introduce a targeted talent management programme, how the business case was developed and the challenges of implementing such as programme in a traditional public sector environment. Pat will cover some of the key cultural issues that emerged, how these were addressed and the ways in which the success of the programme is being measured.  

16:45            Summary and Close