Talent management & professional skills

Talent management and professional skills for government are key issues for government departments, which need to attract, retain and deploy people with the right skills at all levels.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has experience of professional skills development, competency frameworks, job structures, talent management and succession. Saratoga also runs a ‘talent network’ giving organisations an opportunity to share experience and expertise in this area.

Potential issues

Organisational context

Developing organisational culture and values, and the overall employment proposition.

Recruitment and internal moves

Recruiting new staff and managing internal deployment.

Retention

Understanding retention issues, identifying and implementing appropriate improvement.

Reward

Understanding the impact of reward and recognition on managing talent.

Learning and development

Professional and technical development, management and leadership development, career paths and progression, e-learning.

Revision and (re)deployment

Managing poor performance, career progression, succession.

PwC services

• Recruitment and retention – reviews using Saratoga benchmarking information to assess and develop recruitment and retention policy and practice
• Reward services – job evaluation, pay benchmarking and reward system design
• Internal moves and succession – job-specific selection, use of assessment and development centres, job structures and succession planning
• Learning and development – advice on approaches to professional and technical development, management and leadership development, career paths and progression, and e-learning
• The Saratoga talent network