Talent Enablement

Talent Enablement is a contemporary approach to Talent Management in line with agile values, principles, and practices

What is Talent Enablement?

Talent Enablement (TE) is when we help employees to reach their potential faster than they could on their own. It is based on the belief that if we help people develop and apply their strengths, skills, and interests, then they will provide high value to their team all the way to our end customers.

People Developers/Leaders engage in Talent Enablement by challenging, guiding, and coaching their employees along a personalized learning and growth journey.

Talent Enablement is a contemporary approach to Talent Management suitable for a more fast-paced, responsive, and adaptive work environment.

Why Do We Need a New Approach to Talent Management?

Definition of Talent is shifting from select high potentials to everyone is a talent
Increased need for faster learning, re- and upskilling
Demand for more personalized, flexible career paths
Necessity for more diverse, equitable, and inclusive talent framework
One-size-fits-all approach no longer works
Employees want to be in charge of their own learning and growth
Increasing pressure on talent pipeline
Incomplete understanding of talent pipeline
Need for more adaptive workforce planning
People Debt needs to be addressed
Building a strong People Runway
Increased pressure on People Leader
Current competency models are increasingly outdated and static
Talent Management is too reactive for agile organizations

What Is a Talent Enablement Guide (TEG)?

The Talent Enablement Guide (TEG) is a tool to help People Leaders bring Talent Development to the next level.

On an employee level, it provides a practical guide to support People Leaders in their ongoing efforts to challenge, guide, and drive employees in their learning and growth journey. In addition, the TEG helps them utilize different people/HR tools and techniques in a personalized yet stringent and aligned way.

On an organizational level, it sets the stage for a more profound understanding of the talent pipeline and how it measures against current and future business objectives. At the same time, it allows for more responsive and faster talent flow and mobility as well as more strategic and adaptive workforce planning and development.

Benefits of A Talent Enablement Guide (TEG)?

A well-designed TEG helps agile organizations to:

Approach ‘Talent’ in a more holistic way that aligns with Agile values and ways of working
Personalize learning and growth experience
Engage in relentless development of people in a way that they constantly deliver significant value
Maximize the value of available (and future) people/HR tools and techniques
Increase the strength and quality of the talent pipeline
Gain overview of the strength and weaknesses of the current talent pipeline
Create transparency, alignment, and dialogue across all levels and units
Improve employee satisfaction and appreciation
Enrich learning and growth opportunities
Gain valuable insights into the dimensions and chances across talent cluster
Enable strategic and adaptive workforce planning and development
Ensure more robust talent scouting
Increase and accelerate talent flow and mobility