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Talent management

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, talent management means: The way an organisation attracts, develops, keeps and moves its most capable people, so that it has the right skills in the right roles now and in the future.

In Turkish: yetenek yönetimi

How it is used

An HR and leadership term covering recruitment, development programmes, performance reviews and succession planning. People talk about talent reviews, high-potential employees (HiPos) and a talent pipeline.

Example sentences

  1. Our talent management programme moves high performers through three different roles in five years.

  2. Talent management isn't only HR's job; every manager is expected to develop people.

Common collocations

  • talent management strategy
  • talent management programme
  • talent review
  • talent pipeline
  • succession planningThe process of identifying and preparing people who can take over key roles, especially senior leadership roles, when the current holders leave or retire.
  • performance reviewA regular formal meeting in which a manager and an employee discuss how well the employee has done their job, agree on a rating and set goals for the next period.
  • mentorAn experienced person who gives advice, shares knowledge and supports the career development of a less experienced colleague over a longer period.
  • 360-degree feedbackA way of assessing an employee by collecting feedback from the people around them, such as their manager, colleagues, direct reports and sometimes customers, along with a self-assessment.
  • coachingA way of helping someone improve their skills and performance mainly by asking questions and guiding them to find their own answers, rather than telling them what to do.

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