Certified Talent Management Expert [CTMEx]-Self Paced

‘‘Our people are our most important asset’’ This is the management mantra we have heard for a long. Today, this phrase is uttered in hushed and fearful tones by executives and managers acknowledging and contemplating the challenges of delivering value within their organization through people. In short, the rhetoric has been taken over by the reality.

As business and organizational leaders have confronted this new reality, they have looked for new ways to better understand, measure, and manage this important asset. While they may understand intuitively the importance of their talent strategies to organizational success, they yearn for a model that allows them to conceptualize, measure their progress, and leverage this asset to add greater value.

Based on research, consulting assignments, and input from preeminent contributors, we conclude that the core talent management framework required for creating a culture for success consists of three elements. These are:

• A talent management creed is composed of a widely publicized set of core principles, values, and mutual expectations that guide the behavior of an organization and its people.
• A talent strategy makes explicit the types of people in whom the organization will invest.

A talent management system consists of a set of procedures, systems, and processes that translate an organization’s talent creed and strategy into a diagnostic and implementation program for investing in the people who exemplify the culture that will achieve organizational excellence.