Any leadership survey will tell you that the priority of skilling and upskilling workforce is always top of mind. It is a given that people thrive in workplaces when they feel invested in. Yet, the connection between organizations prioritizing their talent and taking specific actions towards investments into talent development is often broken. As an organization, do you know when and how to best invest in your workforce?

The debate on nature vs. nurture goes back many centuries. We know both talent (nature) and organizational culture (nurture) come together to driver performance. Talent management is responsible for bringing these together. Ibbaka is conducting a short survey to understand how talent management is evolving as the economy moves towards a post Covid 19 ‘new normal.’

Metaphors are central to how we understand the world and think about complex problems. Three metaphors that we apply to skill and competency models are the chemical, the evolutionary and the neural. Each of these provides its own insights and when combined can fuel innovation.

Talent will move to the front in 2021 strategic planning. What are the critical questions to ask as you prepare your 2021 talent strategy?

Roger Martin’s strategic choice cascade has proven to be a powerful way to connect strategy to execution. The framework was popularized in his book with P&G CEO A.G. Lafley Playing to Win. This free, downloadable tool takes the basic strategic choice cascade and applies it to the strategic and tactical decisions made in talent.

The Covid 19 crisis has underlined the need to build resilience and adaptation into our talent strategies. This is true for individuals, teams and organizations. Scenario planning is a powerful tool to help us think about the future and prepare for it. Building skill and competency models for different scenarios can help us prepare for and even to shape the future.