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Talent management - What does it mean to you?

Talent management represents organisations’ efforts to attract, develop and retain skilled and valuable employees. Good talent management can help organisations have:

• The right people, in the right roles, with the right values, skills and experience
• The right opportunities, exposure, stretch and development opportunities in place to enable people to reach their potential (this could be in their current role, or for a future role)

The NHS Leadership Academy is supporting the aspiration to introduce or improve talent management practices across the NHS in England. We want to give all staff the opportunity to join a conversation about their understanding of talent management and their own experiences of it. We’ll take everything we hear and use what we learn to shape our offer, build understanding of talent management across the system and create the conditions for it to thrive.

Please use this space to share your talent management stories and experiences. Simply click ‘Add idea’ to contribute. In the pros and cons section, you can add comments on others' thoughts and ideas and also vote for the ones you agree with.

Please share the link across your networks to give others the opportunity to join the conversation.

To aid the data analysis, where possible please include your role/location.

Continue the conversation on social media #NHSTalent

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I propose that all line managers are talent managers and have a pivotal role to play with succession planning. They need training, development and support to do this well
 
I agree that all line managers should be talent managers.
by Yvonne
5
 
Agree - all managers are essentially talent managers. Proper easy to use technology will lessen ... more
by Colin
1
 
Talent management is everyone's role just as teaching and staff development is. Staff need suppor... more
by Evelyn
2
 
It is of the utmost importance that line managers be talent managers. But beyond the managers is... more
by Solomon
8
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Sarah, Evelyn, Stephen Gulliver and 5 more

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Pros and cons
 
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Opening conversations about our career/job/role aspirations is really important in TM. How do we do this more?
by Katie
 
I agree - this should be common practice for everyone, not just a few.
 
Need to firstly recognise what talent looks like, not easy as it takes many forms. Cultural chall... more
by michelle johnson
3
 
Working closely with their teams and doing appraisals properly and timely is the best way to reco... more
by Leatitia
 
Ensure there is an effective distributed leadership model in place that trusts, values and empowe... more
by Camille Edmonds
1
 
If you get your appraisal format right so that it is focused on the individual and not just corpo... more
by Evelyn
1
 
The system/organization should facilitate TM. Thus it wont only be the responsibility of the emp... more
by Solomon
 
Firstly we need to ensure as individual organisations our culture embeds a TM approach and signs ... more
by Denise
 
Often a conversation about TM feels unsafe - managers with high performing teams fear that starti... more
by Jo
5
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Sarah, Evelyn, Leatitia and 2 more

Talent management should be for everyone, staff at all levels should feel motivated and valued and those seeking to progress should be supported to do so
 
Yes, yes, yes. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the conversation is for some people but the ... more
by Evelyn
4
Vote

Evelyn, Algar, Leatitia and 1 more

I think that TM is an important business strategy to develop
by kate
Manager, Manchester
 
I agree and this it should a key focus
by Louisa
1
 
Given the challenges we have with certain groups of professionals then growing our own and suppor... more
by Evelyn
1
 
TM is not only a business strategy but a philosophy and should be reflected in the missions and v... more
by Solomon
 
Absolutely! If the NHS is to survive these challenging times it must be embedded in our business ... more
2
Vote
Evelyn
Sarah
Talent management initiaties should improve diversity at all levels, not create extra barriers
 
Absolutely talent should be diversity and inclusive aware but blind to prejudices and bias
by michelle johnson
 
Absolutely yes, need to ensure old fashioned paternalism and organisational structure barriers do... more
by Evelyn
1
2
Vote
Evelyn
Sarah
Continue to embed the Maximising Potiential Conversation Toolkit into Performance and Development Reviews and ongoing coaching conversations throughout the year, with supporting development plans
by Priscilla, UHNM
 
Need to develop culture of motivational and talent conversations into everyday work. Can’t wait f... more
by michelle johnson
2
 
Need to support staff to grow the skill set for this and be confident. Requires a whole organisat... more
by Evelyn
1
 
For staff on or around minimum wage this is demonstrates jargon bingo
by Paul Dodds
2
Vote
Algar
Evelyn
What’s your personal story of talent management? What helped you reach your potential?
 
My line manager was instrumental. So we’re my networks of support and a mentor. They helped me th... more
1
 
My manager was actually the o e who held me back. I was never made to feel valued. It took one of... more
1
 
My line manager supported me to access coaching and the coach helped me to unlock my potential le... more
by Evelyn
 
Moving to a new organisation that was consistent with my values helped me gain confidence and rec... more
 
It was not my line manager who helped me the most. Although some have been supportive, the greate... more
by Julia
1
Vote
Algar
Talent Management should be more than a name but an action - People should be encouraged to work with their natural gifts and talents. Managers should take the time to understand each member of their team. This will ignite passion in the workplace and give people the freedom to do their jobs usin... more
by Amanda Bedzrah
There are a lot of talented people who get bored with their current roles because they are not gi... more
 
Talent Management is a buzzword, what is important is the rest if this statement about harnessing... more
by Paul Dodds
1
Vote
Julia
Be the manager of your own talent
by Steph (Sister)
From my experience, I believe we arne all managers of our own talents and that is what makes us i... more
 
Who is responsible for TM?? BOTH the organization and the employee. The employee needs to be rec... more
by Solomon
1
Vote
Julia
Include training on Talent Management tools, including the Maximising Potential Conversation Tool (MPC) as part of all NHS Leadership Academy leadership development programmes.
1
Vote
Julia
Should NHS England rate organisations on their Talent Management Outcomes
by Dr Solomon Lebese
1
Vote
Denise McMurray
What does talent management mean?
by Dr Umesh Prabhu
 
Talent management is about understanding the person, their skills and passions and supporting the... more
by Evelyn
2
0
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To include Talent Management actions linked specifically to Workforce and Race Equality Standards (WRES) Planning
by Algar
 
There is overwhelming evidence to show how the full talents of BME Staff are disproportionately u... more
by Algar
 
It simply needs to be fairly applied in line with all of the Equality and Diversity guidance
by Evelyn
1
 
Certainly. This addresses the issue or equity. We seem to forget that without equity you cannot... more
by Solomon
0
Vote
I think talent management should target junior staff in particular with opportunities to move up into the next level of talent management a mandatory part of development as they move upward in their career. That way the NHS is encouraging leadership development from grassroots all the way to the top
by Bumi Akinmutande - Complaints Manager
 
Talent management needs to be universal to make the biggest difference. Providing older staff wit... more
by Julia
 
I think there is room for all to have some from of talent management. There just has to be the de... more
by Kathryn
0
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Get rid of the term Talent Management
by Paul Dodds
 
To the majority of staff who come to work to earn a living, talent management is something they ... more
by Paul Dodds
 
Talent Management is an ideal term for a game of Buzzword Jargon Bingo
by Paul Dodds
0
Vote

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Laura Jayne Tooley

Talent doesn’t always shout. It may sit silently or whisper at most. Perhaps one of the challenges for us is to listen more carefully and more artfully, and create safe spaces for talent to flourish at its own pace and in its own way. That includes, of course, focus on inclusive approaches to ensure that our blind spots don’t inhibit talent from shining.

Sat, Apr 14, 2018

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Umesh Prabhu

Talent management is commonly misunderstood and misused by many in the Public sector. If we only select people from those who are around us then we produce people who think like us and we make the exact replica of ourselves and this is not good for the society.

Talent management is all about identifying the best person to do the job and nurturing him/her and supporting him/her to be a much better leader than us and handing over to him/her.

NHS is an insular organization and sadly most leaders, managers and decision makers are all White and mostly men and we do see women much more in various leadership and management positions but there are hardly any BME leaders in the top or in the decision making positions. If you see BMEs then they all come from one particular ethnicity. For example, Leadership Academy has many Blacks in a senior position but hardly any Asian!

Leadership is not about creating our own image but identifying the best person for the job and making them great at their job, inspiring, motivating and making them the best talent and then managing them humanely kindly and supporting them to be the best so that patients get the best care, staff are happy and NHS goes from strength to strength. Sadly today in NHS there is a culture of bullying, discrimination, Snowy White Peak and in there are club cultures and old boys network. This is not talent management"!

Sun, Apr 1, 2018

Algar

In our Trust we are working to link the Workforce Race Equality Standards Action Plan. This is one way that is beginning to address the inequities of recruitment and retention in the NHS.

Sat, Apr 7, 2018

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