Talent Cycle Toolkit

SUITABLE FOR:

Any team member who would like to develop a culture within their firm where the attraction, development, engagement and retention of top talent forms an integral element of the firm’s overall business strategy.

This session can be delivered to both chargeable and non-chargeable team members.

Key features:

• What is a talent-centric culture?
• Aligning the talent strategy with the business strategy
• Making talent an intrinsic element of the firm’s brand
• Creating a systematic, continuous process for listening to and consulting with your talent
• Building sustainable trust in the workplace
• Providing flexibility in job roles and reward mechanisms
• Leveraging and nurturing team members’ potential to add value to individuals, teams and the firm

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SUITABLE FOR:

Any team member who would like to develop their skills and role in attracting the best talent to their firm to enable individual and business success.

This session can be delivered to both chargeable and non-chargeable team members.

Key features:

• Showcasing and differentiating your firm as an attractive destination
• Leveraging your talent-centric brand
• Targeting the right places to attract the right candidates using the right methods
• Adapting to the changing needs and expectations of candidates
• Creating a pipeline for both active and passive candidates
• Using social media channels effectively including the use of video content
• Leveraging the strengths of your existing team in your outreach
• Filtering candidates
• Incorporating job placement programmes
• Use of assessment centres
• Interviewing skills (Preparation, Clarity over competencies, Questioning and Listening, Challenging appropriately)
• Effective use of virtual technologies throughout the process

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SUITABLE FOR:

Any team member who would like to develop their understanding and skills in the effective onboarding and integration of talent into their firm.

This session can be delivered to both chargeable and non-chargeable team members.

KEY FEATURES:

• Communicating with recruits effectively in advance (one month, one week, one day); putting recruits in touch with each other before they start
• Ensuring everything is ready on Day 1 – equipment, introduction to the firm’s procedures, processes and job-specifics
• Introductions to the wider team
• Assigning a buddy or mentor
• Welcome packs and adopting a personalised approach
• Using gamification and socials
• Making it an ongoing process – Day 1, Week 1, Month 1 plans

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SUITABLE FOR:

Any team member who would like to enhance their career development through a better understanding of the approach and techniques to adopt in order to achieve this.

This session will also be suitable for line managers who wish to develop their skills in enabling their team to establish and achieve their career goals and objectives.

This session can be delivered to both chargeable and non-chargeable team members.

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KEY FEATURES:

• Determining your career and personal goals – the key questions to ask
• Aligning these to the firm’s goals
• Ensuring these goals and any related specific objectives are SMART
• Obtaining regular feedback to identify current strengths and development areas
• Recognising your ‘comfort zone’ and how to address this
• Taking responsibility for your own career development and seeking out opportunities
• Feeding these results into an ongoing personal and career development plan
• Tracking progress through regular reviews

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SUITABLE FOR:

Any team member who would like to develop their performance management techniques and ensure the ongoing development and retention of talent within their team.

This session can be delivered to both chargeable and non-chargeable team members.

KEY FEATURES:

• The 3Qhub Performance Management Cycle
• Embedding regular performance review routines
• Obtaining and providing objective feedback – ad-hoc and structured approaches
• Managing and maintaining high performance
• Addressing under-performance in a timely and effective way
• Stretching average performance appropriately
• Re-skilling the team to meet changing needs
• The role of ‘stay’ interviews
• Ensuring continuous learning and talent development opportunities are provided for the team

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SUITABLE FOR:

Any team member who would like to develop their strategic talent planning skills to ensure their firm is best placed to achieve its strategic goals, both now and in the future.

This session can be delivered to both chargeable and non-chargeable team members.

KEY FEATURES:

• Baseline assessment of current talent resources
• Aligning this to the current and future strategic direction of the firm
• Future talent needs analysis
• Talent gap analysis
• Addressing the gaps though development and recruitment
• Understanding the current and future expectations of the talent pool
• Creating effective succession plans

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