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3-Hour Virtual Sprint
Managing Your High Potentials: Building a Leadership Pipeline
with Dr. Candy Albertsson
Date Aug 19, 2004
Time
Format Live on Zoom
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Overview
This workshop will provide powerful strategic and practical insight into how to build a world-class talent management program in your organization. Talent is the ultimate competitive advantage. However, to maximize that advantage, organizations must proactively manage the identification, development and succession of their talent. The collective long-term impact will be a stronger talent pool that is better prepared to deliver business performance and meet the significant challenges of the future. Organizations that miss this point will be left behind.
Talent is the ultimate competitive advantage. No longer only an HR issue, talent management has become a hot priority with management teams in all parts of the organization. Furthermore, it is now the responsibility of management at many levels, from CEO's to Senior Managers, to identify, develop and manage their top talent to ensure the highest quality leadership succession. The collective longer-term impact of talent management processes will be a stronger talent pool that will be better prepared to deliver business performance and meet the significant challenges of the future. Beating the competition will be tough if they have a more powerful leadership team. But what is talent management? How can I ensure that my business attracts and retains the best talent? This seminar provides a practical and strategic overview for executives, line managers and HR who are keen to understand how to deliver world-class talent management. Don't miss the opportunity to build a powerful competitive advantage within your organization and thereby, strengthen your bottom-line business performance.


Topics Covered
Build a 'business case' to gain championship and support for talent management and succession planning programs Identify the critical 'rules for success' in your organization (leadership competencies and 360-degree feedback) Identify your highest potential talent (junior and senior-level assessment centers) Structure, implement and manage a high potential talent program Develop high potential talent utilizing 360-degree feedback, assessment center profiles, facilitated upward feedback, personal development action plans, 'experience blueprints', tracking experience and development profiles to maximize development, coaching and mentoring Develop an integrated succession management process for your top 20, 100 and 500 posts Gain powerful insight by strategically analyzing your succession plans to identify gaps and issues in your talent pool and talent pipeline (before these gaps create a business crisis) Best practice strategy for talent management and succession planning Tools, tips and techniques to build a best practice talent management program Critical lessons learned and success factors in building a world class talent management program

About Our Expert
Dr. Candy Albertsson
DR. CANDY ALBERTSSON
DR. CANDY ALBERTSSON is Director of Albertsson Consulting Limited, a leadership development consultancy specializing in integrated leadership development solutions to build competitive advantage. Building on 14 years of strategic, design and operational leadership development experience, Albertsson offers clients a variety of solutions including: Building your Business Case for Leadership Development; competency development; 360-degree feedback and coaching; assessment centers to identify, develop and calibrate top talent; high potential and talent management programs; strategic succession management and survey processes. Formerly with BP and AT&T, Albertsson’s clients include Agilent Technologies, ABB, Baker Hughes Incorporated, Bradford & Bingley, Deutsche Lufthansa, European Aeronautical Defence and Space Company (EADS), Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and many others. Albertsson is a frequent contributor to major European and American conferences and professional meetings, delivering more than 50 keynote addresses, presentations and workshops. Most recently, she delivered keynote addresses at the 4th Annual Leadership Development Conference in San Francisco and the 2nd Annual Coaching and Mentoring Conference in London, as well as participated in a leadership roundtable chaired by Warren Bennis in Washington, DC (published in the winter 2001 MIT Sloan Management Review). During her BP career, Albertsson led the development and delivery of an integrated set of leadership development processes that provided the cornerstone for the development of leaders who drove a record low share price of 92 pence in 1992 to over 600 pence today. The BP leadership development story has been recognized as world class. In 1999, Warren Bennis and Linkage invited Dr Albertsson to contribute a chapter on the BP story to their book Best Practices in Leadership Development. Albertsson received her BA in Psychology from Mount Union College and her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from The University of Akron.
Program Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based (Zoom platform)
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Field of Study: Personal Development
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