The leader’s growing responsibility: developing talent
New priority is developing people’s skills, not developing people for fixed positions or career paths
In recent conversations, I have noticed a growing curiosity about why leaders need to invest themselves more in developing their people — especially their best and brightest people.
Talent, development, training? Isn’t that why we have Human Resources departments? Not anymore. Here’s why.
Future talents will need more diverse skill sets to help the organisation in whatever ways it requires. If the business environment is constantly in flux, it makes sense that the demands on our talented people will not remain static. This means that we need to develop people’s skills, and not develop people for fixed positions or…
