What is talent management?
New lingo emerges — but without clear definition, it can become meaningless jargon.
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) recently surveyed 518 people representing a variety of organizational sizes and industries for the new ASTD/i4cp Talent Management Practices and Opportunities study. One result – a new definition for the term talent management.
They describe it as “a holistic approach to optimizing human capital, which enables an organization to drive short- and long-term results by building culture, engagement, capability, and capacity through integrated talent acquisition, development, and deployment processes that are aligned to business goals.” What do you think? If you’d change something please post your suggestions.
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May 26th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Hi Janet,
It was comforting to see the Business represented in this suvey, but the definition is not compelling. I would change the word “drive” to “enable,” or some other term more descriptive of what actually happens. Can an organization drive itself and build its own culture (culture of what?), or do performance, engagement, and capability happen one person at a time?