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A Revolutionary Approach to Talent Management
You know that winning in todays marketplace requires top quality talent. You also know what it takes to build that talentand you spend significant financial and human resources to make it happen. Yet somehow, your companys beautifully designed and well-benchmarked processes dont translate into the bottom-line talent depth you need. Why?
Talent management experts Marc Effron and Miriam Ort argue that companies unwittingly add layers of complexity to their talent building modelswithout evaluating whether those components add any value to the overall process. Consequently, simple processes like setting employee performance goals become multi-page, headache-inducing time-wasters that turn managers off to the whole process and fail to improve results.
In this revolutionary book, Effron and Ort introduce One Page Talent Management (OPTM): a powerfully simple approach that significantly accelerates a companys ability to develop better leaders faster. The authors outline a straightforward, easy-to-use process for designing results-oriented OPTM processes: base every process on proven scientific research; eliminate complexity by including only those components that add real value to the process; and build transparency and accountability into every practice.
Based on extensive research and the authors hands-on corporate and consulting experience with companies including Avon Products, Bank of America, and Philips, One Page Talent Management shows how to:
Quickly identify high potential talent without complex assessments
Increase the number of ready now” successors for key roles
Generate 360 feedback that accelerates change in the most critical behaviors
Significantly reduce the time required for managers to implement talent processes
Enforce accountability for growing talent through corporate culture, compensation, etc.
A radical new approach to growing talent, One Page Talent Management trades complexity and bureaucracy for simplicity and a relentless focus on adding value to create the high-quality talent you needright now.
Review
Of the new business books that came out in 2010, this one stands head and shoulders above the rest.” - HR Professional
About the Author
Marc Effron is President of The Talent Strategy Group, a talent management consultancy, whose clients are among the worlds most successful companies. He has authored two prior books on HR and Leadership and published numerous articles. Marc is a sought after speaker and is frequently quoted in the business media on talent topics. He has held senior leadership positions with Bank of America and Avon Products, and created and led the Global Leadership Practice for HR consulting firm Hewitt Associates. Miriam Ort is the co-architect of the One Page Talent Management concept. She is currently Senior Manager, Human Resources for Pepsico North America. In her prior role as Senior Manager for Talent Management at Avon Products, her efforts resulted in the one page engagement survey report which inspired the One Page Talent Management philosophy. Miriam co-authored "Talent Pool or Talent Puddle: Where's the Talent in Talent Management?" which was published in Leadership Excellence magazine in 2007. Her recent speaking engagements include the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists' annual conference and the International Consortium for Executive Development Research.