The Talent Challenge

Engaging and retaining your staff during tough times (and afterwards as well)

In the midst of a global recession, companies should be concerned about motivating their staff and getting more out of them. After waves of retrenchments and restructuring, and with personal difficulties besetting them, your staff may have trouble focusing on the tremendous challenges you’re currently facing. You have to find a way to get more from less. Your targets haven’t changed, but your resources are diminished. In difficult economic times, it is therefore essential not just to keep your people, but also get them to buy-in to your strategy and bring passion to its implementation. Those people who are critical to your survival and success, must buy-in to your strategy, deliver results under pressure and remain motivated and passionate about what they do.

This session highlights six issues that every company or organisation should face if they’re going to build a culture that gets the most out of their talent. This is the Talent Challenge, and there hasn’t been a better time than now to start engaging your best and brightest staff.

A video overview of The Talent Challenge:

    See video at YouTube | For videos of our team in action, click here or see below

Formats

This session can be delivered as a keynote presentation or strategic input, lasting between 60 and 90 minutes, or as a 2 hour seminar. We use full multimedia, laced with humour and insights about the new world of work. The keynote is adapted for each audience, and can be made industry-specific in its application and focus.

The session can be delivered as a workshop, either half day or full day.

Take Home Value

This session presents six keys to the talent challenge. You’ll learn how to get the most out of your staff, and ensure they’re engaged and give you their best efforts. It will help you change the way you think about the realities of the new world of work. It will help you change what you do with your people. Discover how to get the most out of them, and ensure they develop – and maintain – passion for their work. You’ll be rewarded by a more loyal team who are also more productive, effective and energised.

Clients and Testimonials

We have presented this to numerous clients over a number of years – click here for our full client list or for testimonials we have received. We would be happy to connect you with any of our clients, so that you can hear about the programme directly from them – please contact us with this request if you would like to do so.

Recent clients have said the following about this specific programme:

“Excellent, interesting, and insightful presentation covering a part of team building and leadership theory that we have not heard before, yet is fundamental to developing our management skills. Graeme kept the group’s attention for the entire morning, and in fact left them wanting more. He is in my mind one of the two best new speakers I have heard in the last couple of years. This guy is a must.”
Barrie Barrett, Academy of Chief Executives, UK

Download a summary of the slides

PDF versions of all of our presentations are available for download. Click here for the full list, and to download a summary of this presentation.

Videos of us in action

Links to resources

See three video extracts of The Talent Challenge at YouTube – one, two and three.

See a video overview of this topic at YouTube.

Our white papers library has numerous articles on talent. The most important are:

• You Can’t Sit This One Out
• In Turbulent Times, People Matter
  
• The Recession Isn’t Your Biggest Problem
  
• A strategy for Loyalty

The TomorrowToday team writes regularly on all these issues on their blog. Click here to go directly to the appropriate category at ConnectionEconomy.com.

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