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Talent and skills
Empower your workforce to continually evolve.
How we can help you:
Economic uncertainty, automation, post-Covid shifts, and changing workforce attitudes have forced a rethink of talent, skills, and learning. By optimising talent acquisition and learning and development functions, organisations can glean significant improvements to experience, workforce productivity and efficiencies, as well as support the engagement and retention of key talent.
The move towards becoming a skills-based organisation will enable rapid responses to changing business models and technological advancements. To yield these benefits, HR are required to re-imagine their core functions and competitive differentiation. However, a transformation of this scale requires a new strategic mindset towards a flexible workforce, continual reinvention of skills and imbuing the right culture to support it.
This requires a fundamental shift in understanding the current and future workforce skills requirements, evolving the culture of the organisation and investing in HR technology to enable this.
Reimagine your talent roadmap
Are you striving to build out a world-class candidate experience through a talent acquisition transformation project, but need some help?
We help organisations to reimagine their talent, skills and learning approach to deliver a greater return on investment. We work with your business and key stakeholders to develop a business aligned strategy and roadmap that’s fit for the future.
Build your skills and talent value case
Are you adopting a skills-based approach to identifying the future skills your business needs? Are you thinking about where you need to reskill parts of your business but you’re not sure where to start?
What talent technology do you have? Is it working for you? Are you able to articulate the benefits to the business?
We do an in-depth analysis of your functions, assess your technologies and develop a value case for how you may best optimise them.
Designing talent and skills solutions
What programmes and processes will deliver the most value?
Whether you want to start by designing your job and skills architecture or have a burning platform for a talent or learning programme, we can help you to design and pilot the right solution for you.
Our deep expertise in HR transformation gives us a suite of best-practice processes and leading programme design for your talent acquisition, learning, talent management and skills-based solutions.
Independent advice on the right tools to manage your talent
With so many different types of talent and skills technology out there in the market, where do you start? How do you know what is right for your business that suits your requirements?
We are vendor agnostic, so can provide an independent review and identify opportunities to deliver a greater return on investment via third parties.
Becoming skills-powered
We help you rethink work, jobs, and skills and guide you through key considerations for implementing a skills-based organisation.
What makes us HR experts
We are experienced talent, skills and learning experts
We are technology agnostic, so can provide objective thinking for greater opportunities
We’ve been you, so know the challenges you face and can provide experience led insights
We are flexible and tailored in our approach
Our top client story
Talent acquisition transformation for a global mining company, delivering an end-to-end review of the global talent acquisition function and processes, providing a comparison to market best practice and developing a transformation roadmap.
Our latest content on Talent and skills:
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Key approaches to strategic workforce planning
The global skills map: Navigating cultural nuances in talent acquisition
What are sunrise and sunset skills and how do you use them?
The efficiency paradox – Whitepaper
How to modernise your workforce strategy to tackle skills gaps
How do skills approaches fit into the employee lifecycle?
Is a skills-based approach the future of strategic workforce planning?
Skills and ladders: Interactive skills strategy workshop
What is the role of a super-powered people manager in a skills-based organisation?
Can employees embrace the shift to a skills-based organisation? Individual impacts of moving to a SBO
The cultural transformation of moving to a skills-based organisation
What do we mean by skills? Unpacking the skills vs competencies terminology
How Father Christmas keeps the elves motivated: Performance and rewards at the North Pole
How Father Christmas crafts a strategic workforce plan: A tale of talent and tinsel
How can skills-based strategies empower your workforce?
Flexing the EVP: The new approach to attracting talent across generations
How will AI impact organisations becoming skills-powered?
How can a skills-based approach shape a more inclusive and adaptable future of work?
Using a skills strategy to boost business success
How can organisations leverage a skills-based approach to bridge skill gaps?
How are skills-based trends impacting the recruitment industry?
Tackling potential skills crises: A blueprint for organisational success during an economic slump
What if skills could directly boost your business’s bottom line?
What is the role of leadership in enabling skills-based organisations?
Your quick-start guide to building a skills-based organisation
The foundations of a skills-based organisation
How can skills-based organisations transform HR practices?
Over-interviewing and the never-ending selection process – where should you draw the line?
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How can HR solve the business efficiency paradox?
In today’s evolving business climate, efficiency can no longer be synonymous with cost-cutting and headcount reduction. In our opinion, that's an...
Navigating successful strategic workforce planning
We recently hosted an insightful workshop on strategic workforce planning (SWP), bringing together industry leaders to discuss the future of...
Key approaches to strategic workforce planning
Organisations everywhere are being faced with the challenge: does your current workforce have the skills it needs, both now and in the future?...
The global skills map: Navigating cultural nuances in talent acquisition
Navigating the evolving world of global talent acquisition is no easy task—it's complex, fast-moving, and full of unexpected challenges. That’s why...
What are sunrise and sunset skills and how do you use them?
Forty years ago, mastering a skill had a “half-life” of at least a decade. Ten years ago, that timeframe shrank to around four years. Today, due to...
The efficiency paradox – Whitepaper
What's the efficiency paradox? Boosting productivity in the face of economic constraints. Read how to do more with less.
We’ll assess your current situation, design an approach tailored to your business needs and culture, and deliver solutions that fit your timeline and budget.