What is Talent?

Natural qualities or talents or a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity.

 With this in mind. We want talent, we want to find it, hire it and manage it.

 Even today Pink Skills were seeking women who are talented to shout it out:

 1. What talent do you naturally have that makes you successful?

2. When did you first realise you had this talent and how do you use it every day

 Why do we want it?  Talent usually equates to “profits”. How?  Easy because where new and successful ideas come from is the place to be.  Creatives in advertising win awards and large corporates adore their work.  Sometimes those new ideas are so state of the art that only a few can see them for what they are: nuggets of gold.  And we are being asked to bring out our very scrappy gold to sell at parties.  What would they make of nuggets just shining brightly on the floor in front of them. WOW.

 

I agree with much of what Nigel had to say including the fact that it is a co-operative between Learning and development, business partners and the board to “manage” talent.  The main partner is the person with the talent.  Whatever it is and whichever direction this talent takes us we should prize it and nurture to allow it to flourish.

 

This will benefit everyone.  In our current climate talented people are easier to find and easier to recruit but they don’t hang around if they are not looked after properly.

 Sometimes that may be polishing a rough diamond or two or sometimes it is just creating the right environment for a creative to have their head.

 

Managing shows respect, reward and understanding.  Learning and development teams can be the maker and keeper of this talent by being aware and communicating between the business and the talent.