Your Course of Study
The program's comprehensive curriculum has one goal in mind—to equip you with strategies for creating a talent development system that improves the performance of your organization. New HBS research on talent development, along with fresh insights into best practices and innovations, help you enhance every aspect of talent management—from assessing current and future needs to attracting talent and rewarding top performers.
The broad curriculum includes faculty presentations, case studies, and panel discussions designed to improve your "talent intelligence." Personal learning exercises enable you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your talent management system, measure your company's performance against the competition's, and create a focus for your acquisition of knowledge throughout the week. Key topics include:
Managing Global Teams
- Creating a culture that builds talent throughout a global organization
- Establishing talent development processes that align with company strategy and reflect best practices, while recognizing cultural and national differences
- Formulating innovative communication strategies to ensure positive working relationships among members of a global team
Motivating and Rewarding Performance
- Aligning incentives and rewards with your core business strategy
- Recognizing new talent and developing leadership capacity
- Retaining valuable team members through better incentive strategies
- Leveraging new approaches to performance evaluation and, compensation, and non-compensation rewards
Embracing and Managing a Diverse Workforce
- Creating a positive work environment that maximizes the value of everyone's contribution
- Implementing a well-articulated and widely accepted diversity strategy, including innovative approaches to recruiting and retaining minorities
- Aligning management practices to support and benefit from diversity in your workforce
Hiring in Good and Bad Times
- Establishing hiring as an ongoing process that ensures you can recruit the talent needed to execute an evolving business strategy
- Implementing a robust hiring process that helps your company anticipate future leadership needs, identify the competencies required, and nurture a sufficient candidate pool
- Integrating newcomers into your organization in ways that maximize their ability to perform and succeed
- Managing the complexities of reorganizations, mergers, and downsizing as part of your strategic hiring process
Additional Program Components
Personalized Learning Exercises — Before arriving on campus, you will complete organizational and personal effectiveness surveys related to your company's business and talent management strategies and to your individual management strategy. Gaining a holistic understanding of your talent management challenges will enable you to assess your company's strengths and weaknesses, identify issues that require attention, and develop a personalized action plan. You will return to your company ready to implement a plan that improves your organization's talent management approach and your effectiveness as a leader.