Strategic Career Management Developing your Talent

Organizations need to develop and retain their talent, and managing careers in a strategic fashion is critical to achieving this. This book takes a practical approach to help you make strategic career management work both for the talent you want to retain and for the organization they work in.It will help you to:- Improve your strategic career management- Improve employee retention- Develop a business case for careers - Design and develop critical processes to support your strategy- Explore best practice examples from other organizations- Evaluate your progressOther titles in the HR Series:Organization Design (Stanford)Transforming HR (Reddington, Williamson and Withers)HR - The Business Partner (Kenton and Yarnall)The Changing World of the Trainer (Sloman) publishing March 2007Change, Conflict and the Corporate Community (Kenton and Penn) publishing June 2007

Chapter 1 An Overview of Career Strategy; Chapter 2 Focusing in on Your Talent; Chapter 3 Building the Business Case; Chapter 4 Revitalising Your Succession Management; Chapter 5 The Practicalities of Career Acceleration Pools; Chapter 6 Developing the Key Roles; Chapter 7 Fostering Opportunities for Growing Careers; Chapter 8 Developing Career Self-Reliance amongst Your Talent; Chapter 9 Final Reflections;

Professional Practice & Development

Jane Yarnall

' This book provides both practical approaches and insights into managing careers in organisations, as well as a sound academic base of career theory. I would recommend it to anyone seeking to enhance their understanding of this important area.'John Gilkes, Chief Executive, Roffey Park Institute' A comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of the subject for anyone who has a professional or academic interest in the management of careers and talent in the workplace. 'Vicky Richards, Senior Lecturer, Brighton Business School, University of Brighton‘ This is a wonderfully clear and helpful book about a topic - career development - which is both crucial and difficult for HR professionals and line managers to handle. Through case studies it illustrates both choices at the strategic level and a ra