What is Talent Development
An organization's most valuable resource is the people who work for it, and for that reason, special attention is being paid to Talent Development. Talent Development refers to the collective efforts of an organization to harness the strengths of its people and maximize their potential by developing them. This includes identifying employees’ skills, potential, and goals and helping them to further develop their skills to achieve their organizational needs.
The aim of this section is to unlock employees' potential, help them grow further in their current roles, and provide you with actionable recommendations to assist employees in actualizing their future ambitions within the company.
We focus on Soft Skills
Let's face it - the world is changing rapidly and how work gets done is evolving. As more and more job activities become automated, soft skills, which cannot yet be replicated by machines, have become more important. In 2017, Deloitte also reported that "soft skill-intensive occupations will account for two-thirds of all jobs by 2030" and that hiring employees with more soft skills could increase revenue by more than $90,000.
As a result, soft skills — such as emotional stability, openness to change, self-reliance, social boldness etc. — have become crucial success factors. According to Josh Bersin, the skills of the future are not technical, they’re behavioral. And more importantly, a new IBM’s research points out that CEOs and business leaders are now realizing that they can “buy” these technical skills (or build them internally, at ever-lower cost) relatively easily. It’s the soft skills that take effort and this is why Bryq focuses on a holistic talent assessment approach instead of assessing resumes.
Talent Development driven by Learning Agility
Once more here at Bryq, we innovate and we give insights to your HR team and Managers - insights that were previously non-identifiable and non-existent.
Our motto is: Each role is unique, each person is unique and this is how talent development should be treated.
Our Development feature is honing in on the employee's learning agility which is applicable across the employee's lifecycle. Learning Agility supports your development and internal mobility decisions. Bryq points you out to the best match for the role but most importantly guides you in advance on what that employee needs to excel in that role. In that way, your onboarding process will be facilitated via personalized training on these improvement areas.
Learning agility refers to the ability to learn, adapt, unlearn, and relearn to keep up with constantly changing conditions. It enables individuals to learn something new in one place and then apply these learnings in different situations hence it has been linked to career advancement, leadership, and personal development. Considering the above, learning agility is a crucial indicator to consider when examining employees' mobility.
Individuals who score high on the construct are expected to generate new ideas through their ability to view issues from multiple angles, engage in autonomous learning, better handle ambiguity and ultimately adapt quicker and be more comfortable with progressive risk that leads to new opportunities. On the contrary, individuals who score low on the construct are expected to be more comfortable with familiar tasks and ideas, be less receptive to feedback, and engage less in experiential learning opportunities. It is expected that individuals who display low learning agility to be slower learners, so you may expect a more moderate learning pace than others. Based on this information you can tailor the learning opportunities to better address the developmental needs of the totality of your employees according to their unique characteristics.
💡 Learning Agility is a unique tool that allows your HR Team to act fast and effectively for each employee.