Talent management : deliberate practice for success / by Danie Joubert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joubert, Danie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Randburg, Republic of South Africa : Knowres Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides the architecture for a talent management regime and culture that inspires natural achievers and leaders thus promoting talent adoration and mentoring for sustained exceptional performance in the workplace. Poor talent management practices that manifest in absenteeism, job hopping, productivity loss and stress are costing South African institutions in excess of R40 Billion a year. The book confronts the view that talent is a special divine gift linked to a select elite and shares the belief that everyone is talented. It takes a profound look at talent, its definition and composition and the best practices for managing talent. It describes talent as one s ability to arouse emotion. Great achievers are ordinary people who have mastered the capacity to arouse emotion through a skill or trait. We arouse emotion in our field of truest interest with our natural intelligences, our passion and our potency. We arouse emotion and inspire people through our mastery of skill and through achievement. The key elements of talent are a person s truest interest, potency, natural skill and virtue intelligences. The book explores the six critical performance areas of the talent management process. Talent management comprises of talent creation, calibration, cultivation, leverage, caring and coaching. The book discusses these best practices for talent management. The practice of talent creation ensures that institutions and the economy have a sustained source of great talent. Talent calibration provides a framework for measuring, selecting and ranking institutional talent and pulling the best to the top. Cultivation ensures that talent is forged as a competitive capability and leveraged for breakout achievements that establish new standards and cultures. Caring ensures that balanced personal wellness remains at a peak thus ensuring maximum competitiveness, productivity and inspiration. Coaching ensures that people understand the contests and competitive environments of work and life and know which practices to apply for sustained success. The book helps readers to succeed in fulfilling careers and business and spiritual adventures. It supports the development of the greatest skill of all the ability to mentor others in creating and cultivating their talent."

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE - TALENT MANAGEMENT - A deliberate practice; Chapter One - The genesis of greatness; Chapter Two - The anatomy of talent; Chapter Three - The state of talent management; Chapter Four - Best practice for talent management; PART TWO - TALENT CREATION - The deliberate practice of creating talent for the future; Chapter Five - The nurseries of talent; PART THREE - TALENT CALIBRATION - The deliberate practice of measuring talent; Chapter Six - Potency; Chapter Seven - Truest interest

Chapter Eight - The alpha skill intelligences Chapter Nine - The virtue intelligences; PART FOUR - TALENT CULTIVATION - The deliberate practice of developing talent; Chapter Ten - Leaders as coaches; Chapter Eleven - Forced ranking; Chapter Twelve - Career planning; PART FIVE - LEVERAGING TALENT - The deliberate practice of activating and leveraging talent; Chapter Thirteen - Motivation; Chapter Fourteen - Breakout achievement; PART SIX - TALENT CARING - The deliberate practice of preserving talent; Chapter Fifteen - Personal wellness; Chapter Sixteen - Inspiration

Chapter Seventeen - Building a vital inner circle PART SEVEN - TALENT COACHING - The deliberate practice of maximising a talent for greatness; Chapter Eighteen - The deliberate practice of personal mastery; Chapter Nineteen - Life as a journey of contests; Chapter Twenty - The discipline of winning - the circuits of personal success; CONCLUSION; Chapter Twenty-one - Walking into the light - creating an abundance of talent; ADDENDUM - Calibrating your talent; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 5, 2015).

ISBN:

1-299-05591-5

1-86922-230-X

OCLC:

843003408