Ensuring the Right People in the Right Jobs

At Harnessing Talent we understand the importance of having reliable and robust processes to enable you to identify the right people for your business, ensuring they embrace the challenges you offer them and deliver great results to the business.

Capability Analysis

Businesses typically make talent management and future potential decisions based on an individual’s current skills, experience and performance.  Assessing an individual’s current knowledge, skills and abilities is an important first step, but typically more information is required when determining a person’s ability to grow, adapt and develop over time and how they will handle more complex work challenges and responsibilities in the future.

While performance is but one indicator of success in future roles, it should not be the sole source of evidence used to justify a decision.  We understand that cognitive complexity is a very reliable predictor of potential, as well as a range of other desirable business activities, such as thinking through and setting business strategy or making decisions under complex conditions without complete information.

At Harnessing Talent we use tried and tested tools that identify whether your people have the cognitive capability to do the work you are asking them to do, both now and in the future.  We then use that information to develop a talent management and succession strategy to ensure you have the right people in the right positions and most importantly, at the right time.

Succession Development

Lack of bench strength or capability within the business is a key concern of CEOs.  Future continuity and performance of the business is at risk if you have a lack of sufficient “ready now” candidates to replace planned & unplanned losses of key leaders.

We work with you to implement succession development processes that support you in identifying your current and future talent and enable them to be ready for the next challenge when they need to be.  Our approach is simple yet effective and can applied across the organisation or can focus just on your key people and positions.

Executive Recruiting Partner – Your Brand – Our Expertise

Having the right leadership team in place is crucial to business success, but the process of getting the right person can be challenging.  What do you do when you don’t have the expertise or the time to do your own recruiting, but you don’t want to outsource it to a typical recruitment/search firm because you want greater ownership of the process?

The team at Harnessing Talent can partner with you, coordinating your entire executive recruitment and selection activity under your brand, using your systems if you prefer, keeping you in the driver’s seat for those crucial decision making aspects of the process but leaving the rest to the experts.  To the marketplace and to the candidates it will look like you are managing the process in house, and you get the benefit of expertise and support in getting the job done.