Managing Talent

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Managing Talent

This course is part of Leading People and Teams Specialization

Instructors: Maxim Sytch, Ph.D.

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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No prior experience required

Flexible schedule

1 week at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

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What you'll learn

Learn best practices for selecting, recruiting, and onboarding talent.
Learn key approaches to measuring performance and evaluating your employees.
Understand the cycle of managing talent and creating a robust talent pipeline.

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There are 4 modules in this course

In this course, you will learn best practices for selecting, recruiting, and onboarding talent. You will also learn about the key approaches to measuring performance and evaluating your employees. In addition, you will learn how to develop and coach your talent so that they can realize their full potential at work. Altogether, you will gain a thorough understanding of the complete cycle of managing talent and creating a robust talent pipeline for your team and organization.

Managing and developing talent is one of the top 3 issues on the minds of CEOs from around the world. In fact, CEOs cite managing and developing their leadership talent as the issue that is most important to the future success of their business but that their organizations are least capable of addressing effectively. This course will provide you with the insights, frameworks and tools to effectively manage and develop talent in your teams and organizations.

In this module, you will be introduced to the concept of the talent pipeline. Without amazing people to execute your team, division or company strategy, you will be unable to create value and move forward. Following this module, you will understand that the concept of strategy is first, followed by the positions or organization structure. Once designed, your recruitment brand will attract people to you. Through your recruitment strategies, you will recruit and select the best of the best that fit your team. On-boarding is critical to bringing them into your team and this module will help you to implement superb on-boarding processes.

What's included

8 videos6 readings1 assignment

8 videosTotal 76 minutes

01.01 - Welcome and Introduction to the Talent Pipeline9 minutes
01.02 - Strategy First and HR Planning15 minutes
01.03 - Recruitment and Your Recruitment Brand9 minutes
01.04 - Recruiting Methods9 minutes
01.05 - Selection17 minutes
01.06 - Selecting Talent at Menlo Innovations2 minutes
01.07 - Onboarding12 minutes
01.08 - Onboarding at Menlo Innovations4 minutes

6 readingsTotal 32 minutes

Help us learn more about you!10 minutes
Course Syllabus5 minutes
Get personalized emails from Michigan Online5 minutes
Introduction to Rich Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations2 minutes
Notice for Auditing Learners: Assignment Submission10 minutes
Unit Lecture Slides0 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

The Talent Pipeline30 minutes

In this module, you will learn about the central approaches for measuring and evaluating performance and behaviors and understand the implications of different evaluation systems for employees. You will also learn how to collect, assess, and use 360 degree feedback. In addition, you will learn how to recognize and mitigate key errors raters make in evaluating the performance of others. Finally, you will gain awareness of the stereotypes that can affect the accuracy of performance evaluations.

What's included

11 videos3 readings1 assignment1 peer review

11 videosTotal 74 minutes

02.01 - Why Structured Performance Management & Evaluation?11 minutes
02.02 - Measuring Results and Behaviors10 minutes
02.03 - Implications of Performance Measurement Systems5 minutes
02.04 - Jeff Brodsky on Forced Distributions4 minutes
02.05 - Rich Sheridan on Forced Distributions2 minutes
02.06 - 360 Degree Feedback7 minutes
02.07 - Using 360 Degree Feedback9 minutes
02.08 - Receiving and Seeking Developmental Feedback5 minutes
02.09 - Rater Errors10 minutes
02.10 - Stereotypes in Performance Evaluations10 minutes
02.11 - Recap2 minutes

3 readingsTotal 7 minutes

Introduction to Jeff Brodsky, Chief Human Resources Officer at Morgan Stanley2 minutes
Unit Lecture Slides0 minutes
Get personalized emails from Michigan Online5 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Managing Performance Evaluation and Feedback30 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 120 minutes

Employee Development120 minutes

As a leader, it is essential that you develop, coach and prepare your team for success. When you help your team members learn and grow, their motivation and engagement increases, their performance improves, and they become more committed to the team. In this module, you will learn how to develop and coach your people to realize their potential and improve their performance.

What's included

16 videos5 readings1 assignment

16 videosTotal 116 minutes

03.01 - Your Most Developmental Experience3 minutes
03.02 - The Business Case for Developing Talent11 minutes
03.03 - Assessing Key Drivers of Performance10 minutes
03.04 - Assessing Strengths or Weaknesses?9 minutes
03.05 - 5 Questions to Help Create "Stretch" Experiences8 minutes
03.06 - Using Stretch Assignments to Develop People2 minutes
03.07 - Mindful Engagement as a Tool to Prepare for "Stretch" Experiences12 minutes
03.08 - Mindful Engagement During the "Stretch" Experience9 minutes
03.09 - Developing Talent Through Stretch Experiences2 minutes
03.10 - Helping Build a Personal Board of Directors9 minutes
03.11 - The Importance of Mentors and Sponsors2 minutes
03.12 - The Power of Structured Reflection to Drive Learning11 minutes
03.13 - Why You Must Be a Good Coach3 minutes
03.14 - 6 Steps to Effective Coaching12 minutes
03.15 - 7 Great Coaching Questions9 minutes
03.16 - Recap: Developing and Coaching Your People5 minutes

5 readingsTotal 17 minutes

Getting the Most Out of 70-20-104 minutes
Make Time for Growth Assignments in Your Daily Work7 minutes
5 Steps to Integrating Coaching into Your Talent Management Strategy6 minutes
[Optional] Experience-Driven Leader Development0 minutes
Unit Lecture Slides0 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Developing and Coaching Your People30 minutes

True Talent to lead your team, division or company is a requirement in our world. But will you know Talent when you see it? In this module, you will be given a model to help to assess those who will be able to lead into the future. Once selected as a Talent, you will have to continue to develop the individual and engage them continuously. How do we best develop talent? By the end of this module, you will be able to create a talent development plan and begin its execution.

What's included

7 videos6 readings2 assignments1 peer review

7 videosTotal 59 minutes

04.01 - What is Talent?10 minutes
04.02 - A3E2 Model6 minutes
04.03 - Talent Management8 minutes
04.04 - Preparing a Plan for Every Person12 minutes
04.05 - Talent Engagement8 minutes
04.06 - Human Capital Systems and Succession Planning11 minutes
04.07 - People are Everything4 minutes

6 readingsTotal 40 minutes

Talent Level Worksheets5 minutes
Planning for Your Talent10 minutes
Unit Lecture Slides0 minutes
Post-course Survey10 minutes
Reigniting Employee Engagement!10 minutes
Get personalized emails from Michigan Online5 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 60 minutes

A3E2 Model Stories30 minutes
Creating and Building a Robust Talent Pipeline30 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 120 minutes

Talent Recruitment, Selection, and Onboarding120 minutes

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Reviewed on Jul 30, 2017

Excellent course to learn how to manage the team! Inspired by the way Scott and Maxim teach! The courses in this specialization are becoming more interesting!

Reviewed on Apr 26, 2016

I had no previous experience in the area and after this course i feel like i can actually support others in their development plans. I highly recommend this course to everyone.

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i am in the second week of curriculum and i am already progressing in understanding more and more business concepts that never occurred to me and/or i never knew existed.

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