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Getting Started: What Is Talent Development?

 

In This Chapter

• An introduction to talent development

• Why starting with a clean slate can be good

• Ideas for how to build a learning culture

• The importance of tying talent development to the organizational strategy

• Four underpinnings that form a strong talent development foundation

• Initial considerations about measuring and evaluating a talent development program

All organizations have missions, and most probably have visions. To achieve both the vision and the mission, an organization requires people who have the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes (often shortened to KSAs) to meet its strategic and operational goals.

A talent development program creates the culture, organizes ...

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