Personal Experience and Talent Management

challenges of talent management and how a SGM can engage organizational members for competitive success in future assignments while ensuring their organizational members remain adaptable

A trusted and open system for managing Army talent will incentivize a culture of development, strength, and service.
1. Sustains Long-Term Readiness: Talent Management delivers readiness for this fight while preparing for the next.
2. Managing People As Individuals: Talent Management recognizes that everyone has talent strengths, and great organizations maximize individual talents to meet organizational needs by placing the right person in the right job at the right time over time.
3. Better Data leads to Informed Decisions: Talent Management strives to give people and organizations more relevant information to drive better decisions.
4. Empowers Leaders & Individuals: Talent Management allows individuals to define career success for themselves, advertise their talents, seek opportunities in line with those talents, and employed by leaders with direct hiring authority and understanding their team’s specific needs.
5. Tech-Enabled, People Focused: Technology is a compliment to, but not a substitute for, the human dimension of talent.
6. Influences Behavior: Talent Management uses markets and incentives to drive behavior.
7. Fosters a Culture of Assessments: Talent Management promotes organizational, leader and self-awareness through rigorous assessments of individuals and teams
8. Builds Trust: Talent Management builds trust over time through consistency, transparency, balancing individual and family needs with the needs of the Army and honoring commitments made through the management process.
9. Retain Talent: Talent Management reveals granular information about people leading to better and more focused retention decisions of high demand talent.
10. Personal Accountability: Talent Management requires every officer to take ownership of his or her own personal and career decisions.
11. Flexibility: Talent Management builds flexibility into our career models to better accommodate personal and professional choices to apply to the needs of the Army.
12. Enhances Organizational Agility: Talent Management Army promotes increased organizational agility and innovative out-of­-the-box thinking in response to new challenges and opportunities.