It's Time to Stop Managing Talent and Start Engineering it

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Manage Talent
  • Hiring Mistakes
  • Turnover
  • Quiet Quitting
  • Undeveloped Talent
  • Siloed Skills
  • Wasted Abilities
Engineer Talent
  • Productivity
  • Tenure
  • Job Compatibility
  • Work-Life Success
  • Teamwork
  • Role Flexibility

PROBLEMS with Managing Talent in Traditional HR Systems

  1. Hiring Errors — Selection Criteria, assessments and judgements do not predict who will perform.
  2. Tunnel Vision — You never know what people can contribute because talents outside their job are ignored.
  3. Performance Appraisals — biased ratings overshadow talent identification and development planning.

These strategic leadership errors cost organizations $ Millions in mistaken hires, turnover, wasted development, and under-performance — which goes undiagnosed for years.

SOLUTION: 3 Step Talent Engineering Process

Based on 25 years of research on thousands of high performing people

1

STANDARDS

Study What Distinguishes Your High Performers

We identify the behaviors and traits that actually drive exceptional results in your specific environment.

Standards Bell Curve
2

MEASURES

Measure People on Those High-Achievable Standards

Objective, consistent assessments surface talent gaps without bias toward any single management philosophy.

We Don't Guess We Measure

To Manage Talent...First Measure it

3

SOLUTIONS

Deploy Targeted Solutions with Multiple Media

Ready-to-use tools that amplify your HCM software and make development a continuous part of every role.

Learning Matrix

Most Talent Systems Cannot Explain Why Performance Varies

— Because Traditional HR analytics only report what correlates with performance, not what causes it

Talent Engineering Technology — Science of Success: Performance, Growth, Satisfaction, Well-Being

Talent Engineering Technology®

Explains Talent Variance and Predicts Job Performance

Using 5 levels of talent measurements across job-specific Work-People-Environment conditions

Evidence Available at:

Alcatel · Hitachi · Johnson & Johnson · Nokia · Texas Instruments

We will certify your people to self-reliantly apply this technology for a tiny fraction of the cost of 1 hiring mistake

Why Traditional Talent Systems Plateau

Traditional talent systems report correlations, not causal data, so they cannot accurately predict performance and therefore FAIL to answer vital questions:

  • why do top performers consistently outperform peers?
  • why do our leadership pipelines remain unpredictable?
  • why are coaching initiatives producing inconsistent outcomes?
  • why is engagement fluctuating?
  • why are expensive hiring decisions underperforming expectations?
Business team reviewing workforce data and analytics

Assessment Correlations Just Describe Relationships.
Talent Engineering PREDICTS them.

Traditional HR Analytics

  • dashboards
  • reports
  • lagging indicators
  • correlations
  • subjective evaluations

TALENT ENGINEERING

  • measurable standards
  • predictive indicators
  • causal performance drivers
  • intervention systems
  • scalable performance models

We Turn Talent Data Into Measurable Performance

Work-People-Environment Venn diagram with business professional and arrow

TALENT ENGINEERING - EVIDENCE OF VALUE: Alcatel, Hitachi, Johnson & Johnson, Nokia and Texas Instruments issued us contracts after just one trial. All 5 later issued us contractor's badges to deploy Talent Engineering worldwide and certify their HR team to use our technology self-reliantly. The CFO of an employment services firm calculated that we contributed $14 Million to their revenue. They offered to buy us but we had a mission to fulfill.

    This 60-second video tells how we add Value and enable productivity with job-person compatibility

    Talent Engineering Technology® Complements Your Existing HCM

    Puzzle pieces showing Hire, Coach, Develop, Engage, Retain — Standards, Measures, Solutions fill the gaps

    Talent Engineering does not replace HCM software systems — it amplifies their utility. It does not tell users one "best way" to manage talent, rather presents fact-based choices. It does not burden users with high-cost, complex systems, rather it provides simple, economical templates. It provides assessment-development resources to complement users' soft people skills with hard data on talent that completes missing pieces in HCM systems.

    HireDevelopCoachEngageRetain

    Managing Talent Is No Longer Enough...It's Time to Engineer It

    HR-O'SAURUS vs Talent Engineering Technology

    Talent Engineering is the future happening today.

    Schedule an executive briefing to explore how measurable performance engineering can improve your organizations' hiring, leadership, coaching, engagement, and people effectiveness.

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    Serving global clients since 1991 with Talent Engineering Technology® and science-based HR consulting services

    Performance Advantage Technologies, Inc.

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    Jeffrey Lyons, Principal (972) 517-3389
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