Talent Coven
Welcome to Talent Coven, a podcast channel by Think Talent Services for all things talent – featuring conversations with leading experts from various industries. We try to explore all current topics, issues and challenges faced by organisations in the area of talent management. Stay tuned!
Episodes
19 episodes
S03 Ep07 - What after Assessment? - Creating a Personal Development Plan
How do you ensure that assessment investments do not go waste?Linking assessments to other TM processes is key. What seen works well? Or not? What could HR teams focus on to ensure that assessments do not remain tact...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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36:50
S03 Ep06 - Leaders - Assessing for the Future
What will we look for in leaders going forward? What will change? And how will we assess some of these things?Areas like resilience, emotional intelligence, judgment, soft skills etc. are anyway difficult to assess. How does one a...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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34:21
S03 Ep05 - Leadership Assessments - What is Different Now?
The task of leadership is getting complex by the day.What do we continue to look for in leaders? And what else will we look for when we assess leaders?Assessing for leadership has several risks associated with it, and failu...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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45:20
S03 Ep04 - Implementing Assessment Programs - The Practical Side - II
What does it take to run assessments on the ground? What are the tactical and minute insights that make the difference?What needs to be taken care of at different stages - preparation, during the assessment and post assessment?
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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36:58
S03 Ep03 - Implementing Assessment Programs - The Practical Side - I
What does it take to run assessments on the ground? What are the tactical and minute insights that make the difference?What needs to be taken care of at different stages - preparation, during the assessment and post assessment?
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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43:23
S03 Ep02 - Running Assessments at Scale - What Does it Take?
Large scale assessment implies the ability to manage massive numbers of participants all being assessed at the same time. This further implies the ability to process, analyze and report on that data, as well as the organizational infrastructure...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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40:52
S03 Ep01 - Making Assessments more Human
Assessments of different kinds will always be part of the HR playbook. What does it take to build a culture that removes the negative emotions associated with such processes?How do you en...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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40:37
S02 Ep05 - Creating a Self-Driven Culture for Virtual Learning
There is a push for digital culture and virtual learning as a part of it. In fact, going digital has been on the agenda of companies for a while now. There is though a wide gap still between those that have adopted virtual, and those that have ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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47:59
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S02 Ep04 - Challenges in Measuring Effectiveness of Virtual Learning Interventions
Virtual learning of all kinds is proliferating and is everywhere around us. It has been there for a while but has moved relatively slowly in terms of uptake. The pandemic is getting organizations to re-think how they could create better blends ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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48:09
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S02 Ep03 - Improving Inclusiveness of Virtual Learning Interventions
Diversity and inclusion is an extremely important agenda for almost all companies today, for a variety of reasons. In the learning area, this is still to become a mainstream topic of discussion and debate.Are companies providing equ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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50:31
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S02 Ep02 - Designing Virtual Learning Journeys
How does one design a learning journey that talks to the human being and is effective for the business? What will appeal to the learner inside and evoke curiosity, engagement, competition, feel good, experimentation mindset&n...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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47:45
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S02 Ep01 - How Senior Leaders are Looking at Learning? What Role should the HR Teams Play in Promoting Learning?
While companies and leaders understand the need and utility of investing in learning, the jury is still out on effectiveness and stickiness on some kinds of learning - e.g. virtual, for certain.What are leaders expressing in terms o...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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42:28
S02 Intro - Going Virtual with Learning Interventions
Taking learning interventions virtual is not new, just that the need has suddenly accelerated. Like any other organizational change process, it is complex, involving processes, technology, people, mindsets and leadership. Companies are experime...
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Season 2
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2:40
S01 Ep05 - Manager's Choice and Learning: Should Managers Really Make the Choices About What They Learn?
There is one argument that managers should choose what they should learn. This could help both hyper-personalization and deeper learning & engagement. Others believe that learning must be curated based on organization and role requirements?...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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51:20
S01 Ep04 - What will Managers Need to Learn Now in the Changing Landscape?
While manager capability is critical in ensuring organizational effectiveness, what it means is changing rapidly over time. With the recent pandemic, it has perhaps changed significantly and for ever.It appears that manager roles wi...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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48:51
S01 Ep03 - Addressing Learning Needs of Managers in Manufacturing
While manager capability is critical in ensuring organizational effectiveness, it becomes even more critical in manufacturing organizations. The role of a manager in manufacturing has many different and added dimensions in comparison to say IT ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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46:37
S01 Ep02 - Is Organizational Performance and Agility Linked to Managerial Capability?
CEOs at the end of the day are worried about organizational performance. In these times, agility is also in focus. Pivot or Perish is much used and abused in the current context. Many CEOs believe that the middle layers of managers are not real...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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47:06
S01 Ep01 - Why Invest in Manager Capability Building?
There has always been a debate about both efficacy of and investment in managerial training. There is recognition that manager capability is key to smooth functioning of an organization. However, given the business challenges and economic envir...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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50:56
S01 Intro - Re-imagining Manager Capability
With the nature of work and workplaces changing, managers will need to think and behave differently in the future. Employees and managers will be impacted by aspects of remote working, level of trust in organizations and management, own
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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