Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

SUPPORTING SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION

Ecolab’s Talent Pipeline is now well established and continues to support business growth through successful talent acquisition, retention, and leadership development. In part, this can be attributed to the sense of urgency that was created to accelerate its implementation. Creating urgency for implementing Ecolab’s Talent Pipeline Model began with an analysis of the numbers of new associates who would be necessary to lead a dramatically expanded Ecolab workforce. Based on a ratio of one manager for about every seven or eight associates, Ecolab calculated the numbers of new associates, managers, and leaders it would need at each pipeline level if the organization doubled in size. To be successful, this ...