The “war for talent” is already in full swing. It is becoming more and more difficult to find high-performance employees, executives, and managers and to get them to commit to your company for the long term. Therefore, setting up a continuous leadership pipeline is of core importance for every company. We can help you:

• Systematically discover high potentials
• Continuously develop talents further
• Make sure that successors for key positions possess the competencies required for future undertakings & projects
• Fill key positions with highly qualified internal junior employees

This way, you make your company fit for the future and offer a clear perspective to internal and external high potentials. At the same time, you increase the attractiveness of your company as an employer of choice.

An integrated Talent Management process encompasses several steps:

1. Identification and selection of high potentials:

As the first step, company-internal managers identify junior employees with potential for high level tasks. Diagnostic tools such as atrain’s online potential analysis, deliver further data for the nomination process.

2. Positioning high potentials and creation of meaningful profiles of strengths and areas of improvement:

Within the framework of atrain’s Development Center, high potentials are confronted with realistic challenging situations. During this process, the participants’ behavior is systematically observed and evaluated. Every high potential receives an individual profile of strengths and areas of improvement. Intensive feedback and a detailed report help to motivate the candidates to develop themselves.

3. Focused development and support during implementation of the candidates’ individual development plans:

Subsequent to the Development Center, every high potential creates an individual development plan. Internal or external coaches assist them during the implementation. Development progress is continuously monitored against pre-defined parameters. This way, you ensure a sustainable return on your investment.

We support you in all three phases of this systematic Talent Management process with tailored concepts and tools.

Our approach:

• Goal clarification, needs analysis & process definition
• Identification of internal high potentials with the help of management and HR using a systematic and transparent process
• Skill assessment for high potentials and creation of a meaningful profile of strengths and development areas on the basis of a tailored Development Center
• Focused continuous development through individual support, targeted training and planning of individual assignments
• Integration with Performance Management and Personnel and Leadership Development

Your benefits:

• You strengthen your leadership pipeline through a consistent Talent Management process
• You identify high potentials at an early stage and thereby prevent top employees from leaving
• You prepare successors for key positions purposefully for future high level activities
• You gain the commitment of key talents to your company, e.g. through the visible engagement of top managers in the Talent Management process
• You gain ground in the prevailing “war for talent”
• You integrate your Talent Management process with existing systems and processes

The atrain advantage:

• You gain the opportunity to operate globally in different languages and cultural contexts
• You implement state-of-the-art concepts, models and methods with sustainable impact
• You benefit from our broad, cross-industry experience