Talent Planning: Dominate Your Industry with the Right People and Strategy
Why read this book
- To overcome the #1 issue limited growth of SMBs which is people-related challenges.
- Because the truth is, whoever wins at talent wins their industry.
- To create a great place to work that attracts, hires, develops and retains the talent needed to achieve your goals/vision.
- Companies that create a great place to work dominate their industry because they win at talent.
- Talent planning & management ties all your decisions to your strategy.
- As you read the book and complete the process with your team to implement talent planning & management into your organization, you will gain valuable insights, identify key talent gaps, and develop actionable strategies to align your workforce with your organization’s goals for long-term success.
- The MyTalentPlanner Growth Accelerator System(GAS) streamlines the Talent Planning & Management process with a single login to create your strategic vision, the talent plan to achieve it, the metrics to monitor it, the goals and action plans to make it happen, and the meeting cadence to ensure communication and accountability.
- We have all these plans in our business and life, but why don’t we put a plan around our people. Why don’t we put a talent plan in place. Your employees are your greatest assets, and a bad hire can cost far more than you might realize.
Why is it free for now
- What I discovered in working with SMBs for 25 years is that they did not have a simple process and technology to help them excel and win at strategic HR/talent.
- We want to share a new approach to solving an old problem.
- To understand what the future of talent looks like for SMBs.
- To increase the popularity and use of Talent Planning in SMBs.
- In simple terms, to change the industry forever on how SMBs care for and invest in their people and win at talent.
- Want to share it so you can get ahead of your competition
Benefits
Create a Great Place to Work
To create a great place to work that attracts, hires, develops and retains the talent needed to achieve your goals/vision.
SMBs Guide To Win
Guides SMBs on how to solve the #1 issue limiting their sales and profit growth
Resolve People Issues
Talent Planning works upstream to resolve people issues before they impact the business
Plan/Decisions
Ties your Talent Plan/Decisions to Your Strategy
People-First Culture
Create an people-first culture that is known as a great place to work
Enables SMBs
Enables SMBs to excel at Strategic HR/Talent
Dominates Their Industry
Whoever Wins at Talent Dominates Their Industry
What is in the book
- Maximizing this Book v
- Chapter 1: Why the Hell Didn’t I Plan for This? 1
- Chapter 2: Our Talent Deserves a Plan 11
- Chapter 3: Process Prep 19
- Chapter 4: Team Development Session 29
- Chapter 5: Strategy Session 41
- Chapter 6: Talent Vision & Sprint Goals Session 55
- Chapter 7: The Talent Plan for Your Leadership Team 65
- Chapter 8: Department Planning 75
- Chapter 9: Meeting Cadence 83
- Chapter 10: Shepherd of the Talent 95
- Chapter 11: Develop and Dominate 103
- Chapter 12: Toolkit 105
How to get the most out of this book in order to dominate your industry with the right people and strategy.
Even the most fanatical planners have this one blind spot — until now.
Taking on the true cost of people issues, and an overview of the Talent Planning process.
Step 1: Set the stage for the Talent Planning process.
Step 2: Prepares your leadership team to have honest, open, and transparent conversations leading to creating the best strategy and talent plan.
Step 3: Now that your leadership team is ready, define the vision and strategy that drives all decisions, especially your talent decisions.
Step 4: Defining your organization’s future functional structure to achieve your vision and sprint goals to take the first step toward it.
Step 5: With the future functional structure completed, the company leader develops a multi-year talent plan for the leadership team.
Step 6: Presenting the strategy and talent plan to all team members to launch department planning, which includes a talent plan for each department.
Step 7: An efficient, consistent meeting schedule that creates the rhythm to execute your strategy and talent plan and achieve your vision.
Accept the duty to develop and invest in the people you are responsible for in your professional and personal life.
Talent Planning is how you will outperform your competition and increase sales and profitability.
A run-down of the resources available to make you an expert talent planner.
Maximizing This Book
1. 7-Step Process
This is a comprehensive seven-step Talent Planning process. Each step works in concert with the next and builds off what came before it, adding up or even multiplying the incredible impact of Talent Planning. Based on leading companies through this process hundreds of times, the most effective approach to solve your people issues to accelerate growth is by completing the seven steps of the process.
2. Stand-alone Exercises
While working through the steps reveals the full power of Talent Planning, each step can also be completed as an individual, standalone exercise. You can target a particular area of your organization that needs to be developed, solidified, or reset. For example, if you know your leadership team would benefit from improved communication, the team development exercise in Chapter 4 will work wonders and lead to breakthroughs in and of itself. Or, if your company’s vision is in place, but over time you’re having trouble keeping all team members focused and accountable, you can simply flip to Chapter 9 for an effective run-through of instilling a solid meeting cadence for your organization.
3. Software
MyTalentPlanner is the only Growth Accelerator System for executing your strategy & talent plan. The system streamlines the Talent Planning process with a single login to create your strategic vision, the talent plan to achieve it, the metrics to monitor it, the goals and action plans to make it happen, and the meeting cadence to ensure communication and accountability. MyTalentPlanner guides you through the process of solving your people issues and creating sustained acceleration of growth for your company beyond what you ever thought possible. Visit mytalentplanner.com to learn more about this unique Growth Accelerator System that helps you attract, develop, and retain talent to dominate your industry.
4. Implementation Options/DIY
The Talent Planning process can be completed on your own, or with a trained Talent Planning advisor. With this book, and even more so with the MyTalentPlanner Growth Accelerator System, any passionate business leader has what it takes to lead his or her organization through the Talent Planning process. However, if you would rather focus on being part of the process versus leading it, especially in the first year, you can utilize the expert services of a certified Talent Planning advisor. Contact info@MyTalentPlanner.com for more information about a Talent Planning advisor near you.
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Testimonial
Chris Stiles
CEO Morley-Murphy Company