The Talent Advantage: Developing Your Workforce to Drive Business Results

Employees with the knowledge and skills needed to meet the organization’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 some people 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, innovation and commercial leaders, line managers and anyone responsible for talent management.

Including frameworks, templates and tools, this book is also full of real-world examples from organizations such Merck, Michelin and Nefab to show how this approach to talent management and innovation applies in practice. There is also coverage 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 and innovation 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 organization.

Stefan Stremersch is the Founder of MTI2 which is a consultancy focused on supporting organizations and their people to use their potential to achieve commercial success. He is an author, conference speaker and globally renowned expert on innovation. He is also a Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Ghent University, Belgium and has previously held positions at IESE Business School, Spain and the University of Southern California, USA. He is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.