Talent Leaders Event

Join us for our next Talent Leaders Event on 26 October at the Met Hotel, Leeds.

Talent Management is a bit of an anomaly: what does it really mean and what difference does it make?

Having an idea about the range of things it covers can help, but it can be so broad it is difficult to see where it begins and ends.

It reaches from attracting people and the recruitment activities of getting people into the organisation through to preparing them for roles and tasks.

It covers initial learning and development, then deploying them effectively and efficiently. And the cycle doesn’t stop there.

As staff develop in their roles and develop their own interests and preferences, we may need to keep in touch with what are they aiming for, and how can they meet the needs of the organisation. How can the organisation meet their needs so we don’t lose them to somewhere else? These are the key areas but there are so many more.

Our October workshop moves a step forward from talent awareness and definition – discussed in our July workshop – to looking at Talent Strategy.

Paul Turner, Professor of Management Practice from Leeds Beckett University and respected author on Talent, will be guiding us through the day.

He will help us understand how best to construct a strategy for talent and how to secure the executive-level buy-in that meets your organisational objectives.

Participants will learn how to use Paul’s Talent Strategy Framework, a step-by-step process for working through your own talent strategy.

I look forward to seeing you on the day.

About Paul Turner

Paul Turner is Professor of Management Practice at Leeds Business School (Leeds Beckett University) having held similar positions at Universities in Birmingham, Nottingham and Cambridge.

Paul Turner’s previous positions have included President of Employee Care (EMEA) for the Convergys Corporation of Cincinnati, Group HR Business Director for Lloyds TSB, Vice President of the CIPD, a Director of BT, a Non-Executive Director of Blessing White and OPI and a General Manager for Plessey in both the UK and Asia Pacific.

Paul has recently led HR Master Classes in Johannesburg, Dubai, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, was Chair of the European Human Asset and People Innovation Conferences from 2009 to 2014 and Chair of the European Talent for Tomorrow Conferences. He was a judge on the Middle East and European HR Excellence Awards, as well as the CIPD People Management Awards.

Paul is the author or co author of Make Your People Before You Make Your Products (2014), Meaning at Work- Employee Engagement in Europe (2012),Talent Management in Europe (2012), Workforce Planning (2010), The Admirable Company (2008), Talent (2007), Organisational Communication (2003) and HR Forecasting and Planning (2002). He has written articles for academic and business journals and the International Press.

Paul’s new book ‘Talent Management in Healthcare-Exploring how the world’s health service organisations attract, manage and develop talent,’ is published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2017.

Paul has a first degree from the University of East Anglia, a Ph.D from the University of Sheffield and is a Companion of the CIPD.