Talent Management - the new competitive advantage

To develop skills and provide tools for managing people and teams for greater organisational effectiveness.

By the end of the programme, participants will:

• Be more aware of their capabilities to manage people
• Have learned differentiating key points between managing people and leadership
• Have learned to get the most out of personal interviews as a key tool in managing people
• Be able to manage a skills management model
• Be familiar with the essentials of Managing by Confidence (MbC) as a model of organisational commitment
• Be better able to detect and retain talent within the organisation, starting with themselves.

The programme is aimed at executives in any functional area, in addition to independent professionals and consultants, who are responsible for members of staff and for whom results achieved in managing personnel and in maintaining talent within their organisations is important.

The programme contents have an overall aim of connecting the aspects that interact in professional practice: Role; Individuals as Professionals; and the Business System.

• Creating the learning community
• The most significant components of emotional intelligence applied to managing people
• Self management
• The search for each person's distinguishing traits. Talent
• From motivation to self-motivation
• The interview as a key tool for talent management
• Ongoing learning as leverage for talent development
• Analysing the management team's skills map
• New vision of leadership
• Performance and performance appraisal
• Coaching: the process of accompanying and strengthening executives
• Managing by Confidence (MbC) and organisational commitment
• Learning through projects
  

The programme combines various teaching methodologies: Lectures delivered by professors and presentations given by executives involved in the area.

Classroom activities: Dynamic learning

Classroom-based activities provide an ideal framework to promote an exchange of knowledge and experience in order to create a learning community capable of putting theory into practice. The programme lasts a total of 14 full-time sessions.

Residential activities

These non-classroom activities provide learning on personal and group development, using the group's background knowledge and experience as basic learning materials

Interaction

One of the key elements of this learning model is undoubtedly the contribution from the participants themselves, which serves to enrich knowledge acquired in and out of the classroom. Participant selection, group discussions, working lunches and social activities are aimed to promote dynamic exchange and knowledge-sharing among peers from different sectors and organisations. Participants establish friendships and a network of contacts that go beyond the programme and continue outside the classroom.

Technology

In Executive Education learning processes, IT use offers immediate access to large amounts of resources of all kinds including information, databases and other business sources. Using the Internet and the programme's website, IT becomes a factor of the learning experience itself. Participants will also have access to other material and documentation.

Programme portal

This portal is an additional tool provided by ESADE Business School, which participants can use to download documents and course material, receive and send texts and access a wide variety of information sources. It is primarily intended for participants to make better use of and develop the programme and prepare their final assignments. The continued use of the portal is essential in terms of achieving a fluid interaction among participants, professors and the institution itself.

Final Assignment

This programme goes beyond classroom-based management development training, and learning is complemented with the direct application of programme contents to the reality of participants own organisations. With the support of a personal Faculty Advisor, each participant chooses a final assignment which will be developed in the course of the programme.

Work on this project facilitates and accelerates the implementation of knowledge in the areas of personal responsibility and provides participants and their companies with concrete and tangible results in the short term.

Dates	Price Eur.	Location
From 9 march to 20 May, 2009	8.925¤	Madrid

Program Director Madrid

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Madrid