A Revolutionary Approach to Talent Management
You know that winning in today’s marketplace requires top quality talent. You also know what it takes to build that talent—and you spend significant financial and human resources to make it happen. Yet somehow, your company’s beautifully designed and well-benchmarked processes don’t 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 models—without 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 company’s 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 need—right now.
Marc Effron helps companies build better talent, faster.
As President of The Talent Strategy Group, Marc helps some of the world's largest and most successful companies improve the quality and depth of their talent. His consulting work focuses on creating clear talent strategies and on detailed talent management process design, all using the
One Page Talent Management approach emphasizing Simplicity, Accountability and Transparency. With both consulting and corporate talent management experience, Marc brings a highly practical, broadly informed perspective to his client work.
Marc has coauthored two other books and numerous chapters in talent and leadership books. He is a sought after speaker and is frequently quoted in the business press. Marc founded the New Talent Management Network, which is now the world's largest network of talent management professionals.
Miriam Ort is Senior Manager, Human Resources for PepsiCo, and has authored articles in leading business publications.
