Creating Your Own Talent Management Strategy Is Key To Career Success.
Talent Management
Over the last few years ‘Talent Management‘ has become a buzzword on the lips of HR professionals in large organizations – but how is it relevant to the individual? And what happens if your organization doesn’t have a talent management program (some times known as a ‘Fast-Stream’), or if you can’t get into it? How can you manage your own talent to ensure your career success?
Let’s start with the what and the why.
What Is A Talent Management Program?
In an article on how it feels to be talent-managed, the UK’s CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) describes talent management as follows:
‘Talent management is the systematic attraction, identification, development, engagement, retention and deployment of those individuals who are of particular value to an organization, either in view of their ‘high potential’ for the future or because they are fulfilling business/operation-critical roles.’
Gary Speed, stress, depression and career success
Many of us were shocked and saddened to hear of the suicide of the manager of the Welsh national football team, Gary Speed. He was 42, he’d seemed well, happy and enthusiastic about his family, his career success and the Welsh team, and yet something must have been very wrong for him. People drew parallels between his death and that of the German goalkeeper, Robert Enke.
But something positive seems to have come out of his death, too. It is reported that several top footballers have sought help for their depression in the days following his death. And it has put the question of mental health back on the agenda.
One of the questions people ask is, how can highly paid, successful sports stars, who have it all, become so miserable. I think one of the answers lies in the relationship between depression and stress.
Top competitors can be as stressed in their career as anyone. They put themselves through demanding training regimes, and many of them sacrifice their family life to the requirements of the sport as the pursue their career success. The satisfaction you can achieve when you are that focused on one thing and one thing only can be enormous. But that level of success is not always enough, and many sports people find it difficult to cope with the consequences of failure, or a dwindling career. Read the rest of this entry »
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Does Self-Sabotage Stop You From Succeeding?
Have you ever had the experience where you think you want something badly, yet all your attempts to get it seem to go wrong? Perhaps you’ve set a goal, made it SMART and done all the things you know you ought to do to create well-formed goals, but never quite seem to get it. I know I have done this many times.
I’ve just been reading a great blog piece by Neroli Makim, posted on Yaro Starak’s site. It’s well worth reading the full article, but here’s a taste of what she had to say.
‘Approximately 2% of our mind is conscious, and approximately 98% is unconscious. The unconscious is by far the more powerful force that drives our thoughts and actions most of the time, and it’s responsible for a lot of our behavior. John (Assaraf – multi million dollar entrepreneur) has found that in order to achieve our goals, we must have neuro-resonance, that is, our conscious and unconscious minds need to be lined up and resonant. This is when the power of being coherent and consistent in our creative process really kicks in.
One of the big difficulties we face in being coherent and consistent is that our conscious mind will tell us one thing, like “I’d love to be successful in business, I’d love to earn $25,000 in passive income from my blog this quarter.” But our unconscious will be running a completely different story, like, “I’ve got no idea how to do this, I’m freaked out because I’ll have to learn new things and I might mess up and look stupid.”
This kind of thinking will sink our chances of creating that money and experiencing that success quicker than smashing into a giant iceberg. But the problem is, a lot of it is unconscious, we don’t even know it’s going on. It’s a bit like a steady hum of background static, 24/7 in our lives. It’s no wonder the unconscious runs our thinking process that in turn feeds into our actions!’
She has two solutions to the problem. One, courtesy of John Assaraf is to learn to act in spite of ourselves. The other, from John De Martini, is to find the biggest reason ‘why this is important’ that you possibly can. Now both these Johns are men of international renown, and have made a good deal of money along the way. Even so, I think they have both missed a trick or two. NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) and Hawaiian Huna both have some fabulous techniques for dealing with our unconscious programming, and our fears. No matter how big your reason why, if you still unconsciously believe you don’t deserve to achieve what you want to in life, you will struggle to get your goals.
I’ve been working with NLP and Huna for 12 years now, so I am well-used to using the various processes and techniques on myself. But when I am really stuck, I find it more effective to get someone else to take me through them.
So if your unconscious beliefs are sabotaging your dreams, check around for an NLP Master Practitioner, or a Huna practitioner, so you can dump the garbage quickly and easily.
