i4cp Trendwatcher Podcast - Talent Management Competencies and the Ideal Employee

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DATE : Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:18:33 -0500
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Welcome to our continuing TrendWatcher podcast series here on Total Picture Radio - this is Peter Clayton reporting. Total Picture Radio has formed a strategic alliance with The Institute for Corporate Productivity i4cp, allowing us to publish on our site the compete weekly research report in their TrendWatcher initiative, as well as record a weekly interview with the lead author of the article.Joining us today from St Petersburg, FL, is Mark Vickers, vice-president of research at i4cp. Mark's latest TrendWatcher is titled Plato, Competencies and the Ideal Employee, reporting on a Talent Management Competencies Survey i4cp conducted.Maybe you have a vague recollection of Plato from your college days. You know, the Greek philosopher who believed in the existence of some ideal world that's separate from our physical world? He is, of course, the source of the term "Platonic ideal."Whether we know it or not, most modern managers have a Platonist streak in them, a streak that often shows up in the way we think about talent these days.The term "talent" is in itself a useful abstraction, shorthand for employees who have the kinds of skills, potential, attitudes and values that companies need to succeed. It suggests that a lot of organizations have an ideal employee in mind when it comes to their labor needs.In fact, in a recent i4cp study that was requested by one of our member companies, four of five respondents indicated that their organizations have a sophisticated notion of the characteristics of that ideal employee. That is, their companies have identified a set of competencies that people throughout the organization need in order to be effective.Our Talent Management Competencies Survey also found that, among the large majority that have such a set of competencies, 70% said that those competencies apply to all positions, not just leaders or high potentials.

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