Focus on Healthy Workplaces-Talent Management

• In many ways, the talent management function can make or break a healthy workplace.
  Healthy workplaces recruit new team members for fit, attitude and people skills above longevity, technical skills or education.
• A retention strategy to keep the best people must also be implemented and healthy workplaces identify the good ones and meet their needs related to growth, compensation and environment.
• After coaching and formalities, the ability to remove a non-performing or non-fitting team member quickly and easily is another characteristic of a healthy workplace.  When it is not going to work, make the decision and take action quickly.
• The talent management function must be closely connected to the organization’s culture, mission and objectives and cannot operate in an independent vacuum.  They must be culture warriors for the organization and operating partners with the other departments.