The Management of Global Talent
In today’s competitive environment the strategic management of global talent is a business critical issue. The fact that many organisations are now developing complex structures that cross national boundaries makes the management of global talent a challenging task. Given the economic constraints faced by organizations there is a need to efficiently manage global talent, by “working smarter” to ensure a return on the investment in key people.
This programme will enable you to work with current research and leading-edge exemplars of good practice and to situate these within the context of your organisation. This will facilitate your analysis of the current focus and strategy for the management of global talent in your organisation and help you to develop a future strategy for addressing the talent priorities of your company in order to create competitive advantage.
What will I get out of the programme?
You and your organisation will gain:
- An understanding of how global, regional and industry trends affect the talent pipeline within your organisation
- An opportunity to consider the vision, strategy and structures appropriate to talent management for your company
- An appreciation of the needs of diverse talent populations (e.g. different age groups; HIPO and expatriate pools) and how these inform the ability to attract and retain these groups.
- Case studies of leading edge practice in the management of global talent
- A consideration of the factors involved in making the trade-off between global and local policies and systems
- An understanding of the different forms of global mobility; as well as individual and organisational, long and short term perspectives on global career management
- An opportunity to review the strategic development of effective global leadership
- An overview of the use of technology in the management of global talent
- Frameworks for evaluating the management of global talent and examining issues relevant to return on investment.
What is the programme about?
This programme focuses on helping you to examine your organisation’s needs with regard to the management of global talent, to identify the challenges that you face and plan a way forward. Through an analysis of a number of different aspects of the management of talent – including the nurturing of talent pipelines, your overall strategy for the management of global talent, global career management and the needs of different populations – the programme will enable you to clarify short, medium and long term priorities in managing global talent. For you personally this programme will develop your understanding of the issues involved in creating and implementing the effective and efficient strategic management of global talent and the factors that might affect this.
The programme will be led by experts in the areas of talent management, international human resource management and global careers and integrates leading edge research with real life experience of a range of organisations. In addition to the general principles that will be presented, the programme will allow you the opportunity to examine the relevance of these principles to your organisation and also to focus in more depth on areas of particular interest to you.
During the programme you will be able to apply knowledge in the following areas to your organization’s strategic management of global talent:
- Factors affecting the talent pipeline
- The design and implementation of strategic GTM systems
- Global career management
- The needs of different talent pools
- Global leadership.
Who is the programme for?
Individuals with responsibility for the strategic management of global talent including the development, implementation and management of GTM programmes.
Programme Directors
Dr Emma Parry
Professor Michael Dickmann
Dr Noeleen Doherty
Ask us about customising this programme for your organisation. Contact Mary Mills on
+44 (0) 1234 754502 or email Mary at m.k.mills@cranfield.ac.uk