One page talent management : eliminating complexity, adding value

""You know that winning in today's marketplace requires top quality talent. You also know what it takes to build that talent - and you spend significant financial and human resources to make it happen. Yet somehow, your company's beautifully designed and well-bench marked processes don't translate into the bottom-line talent depth you need. Why? Talent management experts Marc Effron and Miriam Ort argue that companies unwittingly add layers of complexity to their talent building models - without evaluating whether those components add any value to the overall process. Consequently, simple processes like setting employee performance goals become multi-page, headache-inducing time-wasters that turn managers off to the whole process and fail to improve results. In this revolutionary book, Effron and Ort introduce One Page Talent Management (OPTM): a powerfully simple approach that significantly accelerates a company's ability to develop better leaders faster. The authors outline a straightforward, easy-to-use process for designing results-oriented OPTM processes: base every process on proven scientific research; eliminate complexity by including only those components that add real value to the process; and build transparency and accountability into every practice. Based on extensive research and the authors' hands-on corporate and consulting experience with companies including Avon Products, Bank of America, and Philips, One Page Talent Management shows how to: - Quickly identify high potential talent without complex assessments - Increase the number of "ready now" successors for key roles - Generate 360 feedback that accelerates change in the most critical behaviors - Significantly reduce the time required for managers to implement talent processes - Enforce accountability for growing talent through corporate culture, compensation, etc."