Free web seminar

Two of the hottest topics in local government currently are talent management and leadership development. The IDeA’s five strategic priorities repeatedly mention the need to “identify, develop and motivate talent” and focus on leadership. Other reports reach the same conclusions.

The need to improve organizational efficiency, drive down costs, generate service improvements and work in different ways means that it is vital for public organizations to have talent management and leadership development at the heart of their people strategy.

Why is talent management software important?

A recent technology survey by Watson Wyatt (Many Companies Move to Automate and Integrate Talent Management - 2009) concluded: “It’s clear that the current manual methods are just not delivering, and are causing frustration.”

In all but the simplest approaches to leadership and talent management there is an enormous amount of information to accumulate, hold, analyse and act upon. To be able to operate any effective talent management process, it is necessary to understand in detail:

• Present and future leadership requirements, including the scope and remit of individual roles and requirements in terms of experience, skills, competencies and behaviours
• Incumbents of the key roles and how they may need to be developed
• Profile of your existing talent, including their performance, potential, experience, skills, competencies, behaviour, work-life balance requirements, aspirations, and much, much more.

Managing such a wealth of information about positions and people, especially in the face of the changing demands made on the public sector, is a difficult task that should not be underestimated. It is a terrific data challenge, something that manual paper-based systems struggle to deal with.

How we can help?

With over 20 years’ experience of supplying leadership and talent management solutions, Cezanne Software would like to share with you some of the practical lessons that we’ve learnt from working with many of the worlds’ leading organizations.

Often, the biggest challenge is deciding where to start. We will show you how you can plot a path from your current situation to where you want to be by following a few simple, proven steps. We will illustrate how talent management solutions, such as our own, can quickly help you put in place a “best practice” approach to leadership and succession planning, and we’ll demonstrate just what the benefits can be.

Who should attend?

This event is designed to bring together talent-minded public sector professionals. If your goal is to optimise your talent and succession planning process with a software solution that will help you to eliminate excessive cost, risk, poor quality, fragmentation and lost time, then you should reserve your place at Cezanne’s seminar “Succession planning & leadership development in the public sector” as soon as possible.

FREE White Paper for all webinar attendees

All attendees will receive an independently researched Free White Paper: “The public sector is on the brink of unprecedented change: Succession and Career Planning can help organizations overcome the challenges ahead.” Some of the contributors to the White Paper include:

• Head of Open Programmes at Roffey Park
• Corporate Director, People, Policy and Communications at Buckinghamshire County Council (Also the President of the PPMA)
• Vice President of the Public Sector People Managers’ Association
• The NPIA’s Chief People Officer, National Policing Improvement Agency
• Head of HR and Talent Practice at Ashridge Consulting