Knowledge organizations, like professional service firms, need to deploy their talent in the most productive and competitive way. That requires an organization that begins with professionals individually talented, but where academic capabilities are only a starting point.
Collective learning, based on practices, habits and an adequate culture, is the engine by which the firm develops and applies its capabilities to serve its clients. That implies the functioning of “invisible schools” where professionals are being trained within a learning and stimulating environment.
An adequate talent management in the firm requires:
- To identify the type of talent necessary for the strategy and specific market in which the firm operates.
- The ability to atract professionals that have those talents.
- To train and develop them in accordance with the firm´s needs and characteristics.
- To keep them motivated and identified with the firm´s project through a professional career that permits achieving his/her professional objectives.
- To offer an environment professionaly atractive, where the individual can learn and enjoy his/her job.
- To make them work in teams with the other professionals to achieve the firm´s objectives.
In FMC we help firms to analyze and work in all the abilities and tools related with the aforementioned items, in a way compatible with its strategy, culture and type of market in which it operates, including the following:
- Professional career design: evaluations, objectives, remuneration systems and incentives, partnership track.
- Hiring mechanisms: development of in-house capabilities, identifying and attracting talents, means to mitigate hiring mistakes.
- Coaching and Mentoring: development of skills to train professionals. Optimization of resources in the learning process.
- Management of diversity: stars, good citizens and underperformers. Ways to deal with them. Challenges and opportunities. Difficult cases. Alumni.