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Talent Management

Catalyst's service offering in the field of talent management includes:
  • Talent Management Strategy and Frameworks
  • Talent Management Implementation Toolkit
  • Leadership Pipeline Performance and Competency Standards
  • Talent Forum Establishment
  • Capacity Building for implementation of Talent Management

Framework for Talent Management



Talent Strategy

  • Alignment to Business Strategy and organisation capability
  • Business imperatives and benefits of Talent Management
  • Definitions and philosophy of Talent Management - building a talent culture
  • Best practice research vs. current reality
  • Talent Management conceptual framework, processes, presentations and toolkit
  • Development of Leadership Pipeline and performance standards

Talent Identification and Succession Planning

  • Identify Mission critical positions
  • Identify Scarce skills
  • Identify Leadership\ Technical stars, key players and blockers”
  • Nine Box performance\potential matrix
  • Succession planning for mission critical positions
  • Career Planning for Stars
  • Balancing the demand and supply of talent

Talent Resourcing

  • Target external market for specific skills –professional\technical supply, critical skills etc.
  • Strategic sourcing, outsourcing and strategic development partnerships.
  • Leaders continuously hunt for talent
  • Transition management and on boarding
  • Internal market \ job posting
  • Establishment an attractive talent value proposition

Talent Development and Deployment

  • Leadership\Technical development
  • Competency gap analysis and PDP’s
  • Coaching and mentorship
  • Stars programmes\projects
  • Suite of management development programmes
  • Implement deployment actions
  • Provide development opportunities - new appointments, action learning projects, secondments and exchanges, coaching
  • Create space for talent (unblocking activities)
  • Manage and track the transitions, on boarding and performance of deployed talent

Talent Retention and Release

  • Practice of strategic alignment, engagement and enablement
  • Development of a meaningful value proposition, attractive people brand and conducive culture “great company, great roles, great leaders, great rewards and a great culture”.
  • Performance management in relationship to the leadership pipeline performance standards
  • Career development\management
  • Recognition and rewards strategy
  • Incentive and retention scheme initiatives
  • Space creation through voluntary separation