THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF A TALENT STRATEGY
THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF A TALENT STRATEGY
“ One of the most common challenges facing HR and the workforce is the ongoing war for talent ,” comments van der Tang . “ Organisations across the board need to stay competitive in order to attract and retain top talent . However , there is now the additional challenge of needing to be able to meet staffing requirements whilst responding to the impacting factors of COVID-19 . With businesses having to pivot for business continuity purposes , talent strategies and activities may be put on the backburner for a period of time .”
Agreeing with van der Tang , Nuttgens emphasises that , “ the immediate challenges now are that we are constantly having to change and reduce costs . We are going to have bigger pipelines of talent post COVID-19 as more individuals seek new employment opportunities . Employers need to be fair but effective in the way they select , deploy and develop talent . In the end , the real challenge is getting all the right stakeholders to work together to create and develop a talent strategy .
You need really visionary and assertive leadership for that .”
This is something that Campbell at Webhelp has experienced within her organisation . “ We have been evolving our organisational development strategy over the last few years and one of the key points is to ensure an effective use of talent identification , planning and management . Over this time , we ’ ve implemented talent identification , assessed and mapped all leaders and support roles . The main challenge we experienced in this process was to
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