TS2 : Talent and Stress Management and Coaching, UK.

TS2 : Talent Management

"A good leader should recognise and nurture talent."
Peter Jones (from BBC's Dragon's Den)

What is the single greatest untapped resource in the corporate world?

It is the discretionary effort and energy of employees!

Since 1997, when McKinsey first popularised the phrase 'Talent Management' as a "critical driver of corporate performance", organisations have placed a higher priority on attracting, developing and retaining staff - realising that it is the single biggest source of competitive advantage they have.

In an article titled "What a waste", which first appeared in 'People Management' on 11th October 2001, Marcus Buckingham of The Gallup Organisation classified employees in three categories:

Engaged at work (17%) - Loyal, productive and effective; would recommend their employer to friends and relatives.
Not engaged at work (63%) - May be productive but have no psychological bond to their employer; may be tempted to defect by other employers.
Actively disengaged at work (20%) - Physically present but psychologically absent from work; keen to share their negative beliefs about their employer.

Which would you like your employees to be? - You will never get 100% of your people 'engaged at work' but what would be acceptable to you; a ratio of 2:1 or 3:1? Marcus Buckingham recommends 4:1.

Those employees who are fully engaged, passionate about their work, and continually growing their capability to contribute have a dramatic impact on business results.

TS2 and NOVATIONS can provide you with Talent Management solutions:

Competency Development and 360 Feedback - We can help create or review your corporate values and translate them into a staged framework of behaviours that will become the basis for the assessment of competencies and the succession planning within your organisation. A 360 assessment is available to translate your staged competency framework into a series of on-line tools that provide your employees with the essential feedback they will need in order to continue their development.

TalentOrientation™ - New employees are eager, enthusiastic and excited about their new work and roles. How do you capture and capitalise on that energy to help them become fully engaged in contributing to the organisation? Those who understand their roles as new employees - who are given a vision of their current and future opportunities to grow and contribute - stay longer and have a positive impact on business results. As part of your Talent Management solution, TalentOrientation™ will help to ensure that your future top performers have the information, direction and motivation to thrive in your organisation.

TalentDevelopment® - By becoming aware of their individual Talents and Passions and combining them with the Organisation's needs (The TOP® Model) employees will be equipped to take charge of increasing their organisational influence and impact in a way that provides them with personal growth and satisfaction. Based on more than 20 years of global research on performance and development, TS2's Talent Management solution incorporates Novations' proprietary Four Stages™ of Contribution Model. This model provides a process and framework for communicating performance and development expectations to individual employees at all levels from new employees to incumbent executives. This Talent Management solution guides participants through the personal development process, creating an individual development plan, and facilitating a contribution discussion with their manager/coach.

TalentCoaching™ and Contributing Through Others™ - Emerging leaders face a daunting challenge--transitioning from successful independent contributors to organisational leaders who contribute through others. Two-thirds of all new leaders never successfully make the transition. Why do they fail? Because they don't know how to make the most of their contribution. They maintain their old methods of getting things done rather than learning to contribute through others. They don't build new competencies, broaden their influence, or develop and inspire their teams to the extent that is required by the new position. Becoming a leader requires you to contribute in a fundamentally different way - through others. That's what the organisation expects and requires of you. That's what leaders do. Talent Management solutions, incorporating TalentCoaching™ and Contributing Through Others™, help you to understand the business impact of the role of a leader and provides you with a pragmatic approach to demonstrating exceptional leadership.

The benefits of a Talent Management solution:

TS2's partner, Novations, is the leading provider of Talent Management solutions worldwide; helping individuals to harness their personal development and contribution, enabling them to achieve career best experiences, whilst at the same time assisting organisations to assess and develop the management behaviours that will make their people more successful in reaching the organisation's business objectives. These career best experiences result in motivated employees, delivering high quality work, working smarter and remaining loyal to their organisations, which results in improved succession planning, management and leadership development, reduced attrition, reduced costs of hiring and, most importantly, improved corporate performance.

Our solutions are tailored to meet your requirements and incorporated within TS2 and Novations' Talent Management Solution is TS2 and AMC Mentoring's Stress Management Solution and TS2's Coaching facility.

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