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Transforming Talent Strategy for the Future

The Situation

A Fortune 500 global construction and energy manufacturer wanted to strengthen its talent strategy to better compete in a challenging and rapidly changing marketplace. The company’s largest division engaged a talent management consultant to assess and modernize its approach to talent, career development, succession planning, and diversity and inclusion.

The organization wanted to:

  • Identify gaps and opportunities in its current talent practices
  • Strengthen how it identified and developed high-potential talent
  • Create meaningful career development opportunities across the workforce
  • Build stronger succession planning and rotational development programs
  • Advance diversity and inclusion as an integral part of its talent strategy
  • Identify the skills and capabilities needed for the future
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The Process

The engagement began with a comprehensive assessment of the Division’s current talent practices and business needs.

The process included:

  • Meeting with the Division's Chief HR Officer and her team and reviewing existing talent strategies, tools, training, communications, data, and surveys
  • Evaluating talent management, career development, succession planning, high-potential identification, rotational programs, and diversity and inclusion practices
  • Gathering feedback from business leaders about their experiences and perceptions of the current approach
  • Analyzing current practices against research, leading practices, and marketplace advancements
  • Identifying opportunities to create a more integrated, future-focused talent strategy

The Outcome

The assessment was translated into practical strategies, tools, and action plans that could be implemented across the Division.

Key outcomes included:

  • Developed work streams and detailed action plans for new talent, development, and diversity and inclusion strategies
  • Created high-potential identification and development tools, development plan templates and toolkits, and customized career development options for production employees
  • Developed a roadmap for building a more diverse and inclusive work environment
  • Facilitated follow-up sessions with business leaders to evaluate the value and impact of the new tools and processes
  • Identified the future skills and capabilities needed to compete in the marketplace
  • Provided ongoing support as new talent strategies and tools were implemented and embedded

The Impact

The Division moved from evaluating individual talent programs to building a more integrated, future-focused talent strategy aligned with the evolving needs of the business and its workforce.

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