{"id":128798,"date":"2024-08-15t12:10:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-15t16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=128798"},"modified":"2024-08-23t09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23t13:49:54","slug":"how-to-solve-the-big-disconnect-in-talent-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2024\/08\/15\/how-to-solve-the-big-disconnect-in-talent-management\/","title":{"rendered":"how to solve the big disconnect in talent management"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/strong><\/p>\n can you articulate your firm\u2019s employee value proposition?<\/strong><\/p>\n by marc rosenberg in collaboration with jeremy wortman, ph.d., owner of hrd initiatives<\/a><\/em> \u201cexecutives spend more time on managing people and making people decisions than on anything else \u2013 and they should. no other decisions are so long-lasting in their consequences or so difficult to unmake. and yet, by and large, executives make poor promotion and staffing decisions. at most, one-third of such decisions turn out right, one-third are minimally effective and a third are outright failures. in no other area of management would we put up with such miserable performance.\u201d \u2013 peter drucker<\/p>\n <\/p>\n what is talent management?<\/strong><\/p>\n talent management is an umbrella term for how firms acquire talent, engage people in their firms, develop their skills and retain them. among many things, it addresses for a talent management strategy to be truly successful and worth the effort to create and implement, partners must believe that it will help the firm make more money, directly or indirectly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n without partners\u2019 commitment, the plan will only be given lip service. here is the bottom line: if you hire people whose talents fit the firm\u2019s needs and assign them to excellent managers who coach and develop them, you\u2019ll create a firm of engaged employees. engaged employees create engaged clients.<\/p>\n these clients spend more money with your firm by purchasing other services, which improves the bottom line.<\/p>\n jeremy wortman, my co-author for this article, gave a presentation to a roundtable group we run in chicago. the group\u2019s 23 members include two-thirds of the largest local firms in the windy city.<\/p>\n prior to his visit, he surveyed the group in a number of areas.<\/p>\n but only 10 percent had a robust, formal talent management strategy. unfortunately, this is representative of cpa firms from coast to coast. if a plan is not in writing, generally speaking, it serves little purpose.<\/p>\n this disconnect makes no sense<\/strong><\/p>\n many important areas of firm management are put into writing much more frequently than talent management:<\/p>\n but in an area such as talent management, which 97 percent of firms cite as essential or critical to success, only 10 percent have a formal plan to back that up. puzzling.<\/p>\n what explains this huge disconnect?<\/p>\n a few other results of surveying the roundtable firms:<\/p>\n the authors ask: then why is 90-100 percent of most firms\u2019 cpe technical? and why is the recruiting process of many firms focused so heavily on interviewing for technical expertise and experience while neglecting interpersonal skills?<\/p>\n the authors ask: if there is true commitment to making the firm a great place to work that retains people and helps them grow, how can a firm not<\/strong> survey its staff to find out what they think? how can you fix anything if you don\u2019t know what\u2019s broken?<\/p>\n a great opportunity for firms<\/strong><\/p>\n there are several keys to an effective recruiting program. one is a firm\u2019s ability to convey to recruits that their firm is different and therefore \u201cspecial\u201d compared to other firms. what\u2019s a great way to differentiate your firm? share with recruits your firm\u2019s written talent management strategy.<\/p>\n talent management is the integrated set of programs that help firms acquire, engage, build, leverage and retain the right talent for the right jobs at the right time. what makes talent management strategic<\/strong> is the alignment of these programs to the business strategy of the firm. all of them support its mission, vision and core values.<\/p>\n to help firm leaders think more comprehensively and holistically about the people side of their business, a simple visual of the talent management model is at the top of this article. firm leaders can use this model to conduct their own internal talent management audit to identify both what they are already doing and what they should start.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n the remainder of this article drills down on these five components of talent management.<\/p>\n firms should use this process for acquiring talent:<\/p>\n the following are best practices to consider in building a top-level talent acquisition practice:<\/p>\n this works in reverse as well. firms often get attracted to a candidate for the wrong reasons. the vast majority of people will be hired if they have an impressive resume, interview well and provide good references. but that\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n partners typically raise two objections to this approach.<\/p>\n those are formidable obstacles to the personality matching model. but what if someone told you that, despite some recruits\u2019 talent and allure, in six months they will be gone? would you still hire them? perhaps not.<\/p>\n here are some examples. assume that in all cases, the recruit has an impressive resume, interviews well and has great references.<\/p>\n important: you may be a marvelous interviewer who asks great, penetrating questions to detect these types of problems, but the mismatch will remain undetected because the recruit knows how to game the process. anyone who reads the job posting and rehearses for the interview can tell what you want to hear. only a scientific assessment tool professionally tested and validated with thousands of people will accurately detect the mismatch.<\/p>\n firms that use the personality matching model would not hire these otherwise outstanding candidates because they know from experience that these differences will eventually cause each of them to leave the firm within a year.<\/p>\n the key questions you should be asking yourself:<\/p>\n as we reflect on the changing nature of the business environment, we can compare and contrast the paradigm shift that accompanies the evolution of the evp:<\/p>\n (the evp material is from willis towers watson.)<\/p>\n orientation<\/strong> is largely administrative. it is event-driven and usually includes new-hire paperwork, a tour of the office, a nice lunch and issuance of security cards, computers and passwords. it\u2019s often canceled or rescheduled at the last minute, either because the new employee needs to get to work quickly or the existing employees are too busy and don\u2019t place a high priority on their orientation duties.<\/p>\n onboarding<\/strong> is an ongoing process. while many firms use a 30- to 90-day orientation period, 90 days is often not long enough to expose new employees to the various aspects of their jobs. in an accounting firm, a great deal of onboarding takes place during busy season, as professionals learn expected norms around work hours and how to handle conflicting commitments to different supervisors.<\/p>\n onboarding involves giving new employees specific information about how to navigate relationships in your firm, whether it\u2019s with peers, clients, supervisors or partners. professional staff may have excellent technical skills, but if they can\u2019t figure out the trickier aspects of relating to people, they often will not last at your firm, or won\u2019t advance as quickly as they should.<\/p>\n we used to think that the primary driver of staff productivity and retention was job satisfaction. but more important is employee engagement<\/strong> where staff think: \u201ci get to go to work today,\u201d instead of, \u201ci have<\/strong> to go to work today.\u201d<\/p>\n while satisfaction is important, an engaged employee is more productive, produces higher-quality work and is less likely to leave your firm. equally important, engaged staff create engaged clients. these clients spend more money with you by purchasing more services your firm has to offer.<\/p>\n the components of talent engagement:<\/p>\n tactics to achieve high talent engagement:<\/p>\n innovative team-building exercise:<\/strong> have everyone take a personality profile and post the results on a wall without identifying names. then ask everyone to identify who is who. only 10 percent will guess correctly. we don\u2019t know each other as well as we think we do.<\/p>\n bottom line: <\/strong>what attracts employees to your firm isn\u2019t necessarily what keeps them. a large driver of employee retention is helping them to develop and contribute their full potential. if you don\u2019t give them this love, they will go find another organization that will!<\/p>\n once firms have engaged staff whose talents have been nurtured and developed, they\u2019re in position to leverage those talents for maximum performance by rewarding and advancing their employees.<\/p>\n with this method, leaders are evaluated by<\/p>\n partners and managers could also consider being evaluated by their clients by adding them as a grouping to these categories.<\/p>\n
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