Talent and Leadership
People-driven performance.
It is getting increasingly difficult to manage people – they no longer want to be managed, they want to be led, motivated and inspired. Moreover, companies are faced with generational transition, or are likely to be faced with it within the next few years i.e. three different generation employees in the workplace.
The Talent and Leadership Centre of Excellence advises clients on how to optimise the performance of their critical talent throughout the full employment life cycle. We close the gap between today’s talent capability and the talent needed to successfully execute tomorrow’s business strategy. Furthermore, Deloitte’s Strategic Workforce Planning Solution enables organisations to understand future human capital requirements and assess the impact on talent programmes such as recruitment, performance management, succession planning, learning and development and career development.
Through a strategic partnership with Development Dimensions International, Deloitte also offers solutions that are built around competencies and provide training and development programs that are designed to give people at all levels the skills they need to be increasingly effective in their jobs. Deloitte-DDI helps you implement your learning strategy by providing the best mix of instructor-led training. Competencies also form the heart of our selection and assessment systems which help organizations identify the best candidates for the job by engaging in job analyses, behavioural-based interviewing, assessments and simulations.
Deloitte-DDI excel in two areas:
- Designing and implementing selection systems that enable you to hire better people faster.
- Identifying and developing exceptional leadership talent critical to creating a high-performance workforce.
Business Challenges
- Organisations all over the world are experiencing a dilemma: globalisation and internationalisation of businesses cannot be achieved optimally without the effective management of diversity
- Understanding the impact of changing demographics and skill sets in different locations and planning accordingly: Failure to develop required talent over the years can create skill shortages in crucial locations. It is no longer sufficient to have human resources simply stock headquarters with the best and brightest and treat the balance of the company as a matter of aggregate numbers.
- Ensuring coordination among a globally dispersed workforce: Globalisation amplifies the complexity of the value chain and requires tremendous effort by managers and employees in coordinating the business across geographies, languages, technologies, regulations and cultural differences.
- Managing a global workforce with varied demographic profiles, skill sets and expectations. The global workforce will have varying demographic profiles and expectations. It becomes necessary for firma to design talent management practices which can be adapted to local conditions.
Our Experience
The Challenge
Following a highly successful financial turnaround, this state-owned enterprise developed a 5 year strategy built on previous successes. Emphasising innovation and customer service, the strategy aimed to serve as a road map to guide the client’s actions from 2006 to 2010.
The challenge was to identify the critical skills and workforce segments required for sustainable business performance and to define the role and priority actions of HR in facilitating effective execution of the client’s strategic objectives.
The Process
The project comprised two phases:
Phase 1: Defining the critical skills and workforce segments (for the entire organisation) required to fulfill the client’s strategic direction and business priorities. Developing an understanding of the supply and demand dynamics (both internal and external) in relation to the identified critical workforce segments.
Phase 2: Review of HR processes.
The Result
Deloitte prioritised the role and acions of HR to fully optimise the identified critical skills and workforce segments and enhance the stratgies to develop, motivate and ultimately retain a skill set within the organisation, facilitating the realisation of strategic objectives.
Service Offerings
- Strategic Workforce Planning
- Talent Sourcing and Deployment
- Blended Leadership Development Solutions
- Diversity and Inclusion Management
- Deloitte ‘Best Company to Work For’ Survey
- DDI
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