The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, 3rd Edition

APPENDIX V

Manage People and Practices with Standardized Processes that Are Public and Visual

An ADEPT Framework for Talent Management

Acquire

• Scope roles
• Identify prospects
• Recruit and select the right people for the right roles
• Attract those people
• Onboard them so they can deliver better results faster

Develop

• Assess performance drivers
• Develop skills and knowledge for current and future roles

Encourage

• Provide clear direction, objectives, measures, and so on.
• Support with the resources and time required for success
• Recognize and reward success

Plan

• Monitor people's performance over time
• Assess their situation and potential
• Plan career moves/succession planning over time

Transition

• Migrate people to different roles to fit their needs/life stage and company needs

Acquire

Scope Roles

It's critically important to get the role scope right, and to get others aligned around that scope. Be clear on the role's responsibilities, authority, and interactions with others. Know the required strengths, motivation, and fit. Make sure that all the key people who will interact with the new person in this role agree on these requirements. See Tool A5.1.

Identify Prospects

Look internally whenever you can. Promoting someone may be the ultimate form of recognition and sends a powerful signal to others in the organization. But, don't compromise. If you have to go outside to get the best people, so be it.

Recruit

Recruit and select by using a targeted selection system that works for you. ...