The Talent Advantage

Employees with the knowledge and skills needed to meet the organisation's objectives and who are performing at their full potential are the key to business success. The way to achieve this is through an evidence-based approach to talent development.

Packed with scientific insights, practical guidance, and actionable advice, The Talent Advantage is an essential guide to nurturing your employees to reach their full potential and drive business performance. This book explains why talent should be a core part of every company's strategy and shows that talent is not something that some people have and others don't—it can be nurtured in everyone.

Covering learning methods, individual and team approaches, upskilling, and incentives, this book is essential reading for all mid and senior-level HR professionals, line managers, and anyone responsible for talent management.

Including frameworks, templates, and tools, The Talent Advantage is also full of real-world examples from organisations such as GSK, Nokia, Merck, Michelin, and SABIC to show how this approach to talent management applies in practice. There is also coverage of how formal, social, and on-the-job learning are necessary for developing employees and why engagement, purpose, and a key understanding of how roles contribute to the business is essential.

With specific guidance on how to assess and improve proficiency levels across the workforce as well as discussion of the role of artificial intelligence in developing talent, this is ideal reading for all HR professionals wanting to develop individuals and teams and cascade an evidence-based approach to talent management across the whole organisation.