Why Nurturing Talent?

Investing in your staff will help you survive the economic downturn as well as ensure workforce loyalty to the business and its customers.
If your team isn’t equipped to undertake responsibilities you need them to own, how can you meet your business objectives?

In this section we answer questions like; is it more beneficial to your business to develop your existing staff or recruit to fill your skills gaps? And should you use training strategically or as a short-term fix?

What are the challenges?
Having the right skills in place is a business critical issue – if your workforce isn’t equipped to do the job you want them to do, how can you expect to meet your business objectives? Should you develop your existing staff or recruit to fill your skills gaps? Should you use training strategically or as a short-term fix?

Although not new or unique challenges, making the right decisions could become all the more important as the potential of recession looms ever closer.

As the credit crunch hits your bottom line and your budgets become ever tighter, the Nurturing Talent report will help provide you with answers to these questions and more.

What does the report deal with?
Authored by Dr Emma Parry at Cranfield School of Management, it considers the challenge of whether you should ‘make’ or ‘buy’ talent – ie. whether to develop staff or to recruit new employees from the labour market. Based on research conducted amongst more than a thousand others in your situation, previous evidence in the area, as well as interviews with organisations like yours, the report investigates the benefits of staff development versus recruitment. It explores the benefits of nurturing talent to your organisation – how managing and developing employees to can help you achieve business goals.

How will the report help me?
The report, along with the specially commissioned videos of Dr Parry, will provide you with advice and guidance on how you can best implement a ‘nurturing talent’ strategy to best effect in your organisation.

The report and videos were developed in association with Cranfield School of Management, one of Europe’s leading university management schools.

To View the report follow the link below.

To purchase a course go to www.learndirect-business.com