Imagine, you’re the General Manager of the Chicago Cubs, a major league baseball team that has not won a championship in 102 years, and you’re looking for a new field manager. Where do you turn to find top names for the job in a field where top talent is always in demand? How about the dugout of the World Champion New York Yankees, the most storied organization in the entire history of professional sports, where a young Joe Girardi has only just begun carving his name into the Yankee record books?
The very idea that he might even consider a job switch offers an interesting lens into Talent Strategy for 2010 and beyond. You see, Girardi has personal and professional ties to Chicago. Could the Cubs possibly position an offer strong enough to get Girardi to return as a boomerang employee who, surrounded by friends and family, helps his hometown team fulfill a corporate social responsibility by bringing a championship to the beleaguered fans? In an era where top talent increasingly seeks to define success on their own terms and in ways that they deem to be just as authentic as the traditional goals of climbing as high as possible at the most prestigious organization for the most money possible, the Cubs just might have a shot.
Just as Joe Girardi needs a strategy for managing his baseball talent across each 9-inning game and 162-game season, so to do business and organizational leaders worldwide require a strategy for enabling their talent to succeed in today’s fast-changing, uncertain world. Daniel John Roddy will discuss the results of a recent survey of 1,500 worldwide leaders as they relate to the challenges of strategic talent management professionals.
HEI Resorts, a hospitality real estate organization, has built a Yankee-like culture that thrives on winning. Holly Lindvall, Director of Talent Development, will be telling the story of how HEI has created a Talent Management strategy that aligns employees’ performance and development goals with their business objectives.
To weigh in on how your organization is developing the Joe Girardis that you need to succeed, participate in a global leadership survey. If you also can get 30 non-HR leaders within your organization to complete the survey, you will receive a customized report comparing your organization with local and global leadership-development trends.
If you’re a government talent manager and would like to share your thoughts on leadership development and more, please take our government-specific survey and receive a complimentary copy of our upcoming government research. At the same time, consider attending our Government Summit from September 20-22, too. While there, you’ll want to catch Jennifer Mason, Deputy Chief of Staff, OPM, as she delivers an update on the Obama Administration’s Federal Personnel Agenda.
Finally, if you want to make sure your top leaders don’t show up in the dugout of one of your competitors, please join us in Boston on Oct 5th and 6th to look at engagement. While there, you will hear retention insights from top sports agent Molly Fletcher. She might even have some insight into Joe Girardi’s next contract to share.
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