Rewired

Chapter 9The talent team that can build your digital team

People who need people are the luckiest people in the world!

—Barbra Streisand

Many HR organizations find themselves with relatively slow recruiting and onboarding processes, rigid compensation frameworks, and outdated learning and development programs for digital talent. That's a problem if you want to build a digital talent bench and retain your high performers.

Transforming your entire HR organization and underlying HR processes to make them digital ready, however, could take a few years. We have found instead that setting up a special team focused on adapting your current HR processes with a focus on digital talent is the most pragmatic – and successful – way forward. When done well, this approach has helped organizations move quickly while addressing fundamental HR challenges specific to digital talent. We call this special unit the Talent Win Room (TWR) (the “room” could be physical or virtual, but the key point is that it's a dedicated team). The primary mission of a TWR is to build and continuously improve all facets of both the candidate and employee experience.

The TWR requires a C-level executive sponsor, typically the CHRO and/or CDO, and a full-time senior HR executive serving as the team leader. The TWR is an interdisciplinary team that mirrors the working habits and behaviors of an agile pod. It is made up of tech recruiters and HR specialists with relevant expertise in: talent planning; recruiting and ...