Skills-First Talent Management

Course details

Managing talent with the skills-first approach can help to unlock your team’s hidden potential. It allows you to identify, develop, and align employee skills with company goals to retain top talent and increase productivity and performance. In this course, instructor Tiffany Poeppelman gives you skills-first approaches to tackling team design, selection, performance management, and talent development.

Learn how to harness the power of skills-first to cultivate a thriving team that's always ready for what's next. Get tips to help employees develop their skills and pinpoint opportunities for growth and improvement, as Tiffany shows you the benefits of developing a robust, fluid, and inclusive skills-first team environment. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to take action and prepare for the future on your skills-first journey.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Unlock your team's potential with a skills-first approach
02 - What is skills-first talent management

1. Skills-First Team Design, Sourcing, and Talent Selection

03 - Conducting a skills analysis
04 - Embracing skills-first team design
05 - Expanding your talent pool through skills and team diversity
06 - Assessing candidate skills in the selection process

2. Helping Employees Build Skills through Skills-First Performance Management

07 - Setting expectations based on skills
08 - Optimizing employee performance through skills-based goal setting
09 - Giving feedback on skills-based performance
10 - Leveraging skill-based recognition to drive employee performance

3. Building a Skills-First Team Environment

11 - Cultivating a skills-first culture
12 - Fostering continuous learning in a skills-first culture
13 - Learning and developing skills together as a team
14 - Embracing internal mobility, reskilling, and upskilling for the future

Conclusion

15 - Taking action on your skills-first journey