CHAPTER 15  

Talent Optimization

If you’re hiring employees and yourcompetitor is hiring talent,then your company is at a severecompetitive disadvantage.

The entrepreneur CEO and leaders sat perplexed, reviewing the results of an extensive employee “talent mapping” session. This is a methodology I’ve created to help company executives see and visualize what level of performers they have and where they are positioned in different departments. The team chooses colors to put in the boxes of their organizational chart, based on specific performance categories.

The intent is not to “slash and burn” the nonperformers like some philosophies from last century recommend. It is more about providing company leaders a baseline of the percentage of nontalent ...

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