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Talent Engagement
T
he recent government-
sponsored report, Engaging
for Success, by David MacLeod
and Nita Clarke, presents compelling
evidence that "employee engagement
is the key to better productivity".
This is sound advice for any business
struggling to maintain or improve
its position in a tough market.
For all of its focus on strategy and targets,
MacLeod and Clarke devote less space to telling
us the nuts and bolts of how a company can
move from being one of the 75 per cent of UK
businesses that currently fail to engage their
talent to becoming a leader in creativity and
innovation. This is more important given the
present climate of job cuts and reductions in
training and development.
Talent Engagement, a toolkit aid, is Maynard
Leigh's response to Engaging for Success. We
aim to take the debate forward and contribute to
raising awareness of the importance of employee
engagement nationwide.
With twenty years of experience in the field,
Maynard Leigh has helped shape employee
development at some of the UK's leading
companies. Many of the ideas here are based on
the experience of working with these clients. This
paper follows on from Maynard Leigh's recent
Talent Management at the Crossroads report
(April 2009) and builds on Engaging for Success.
Introduction
How to Unlock Potential
The message to leaders, managers and other stakeholders could not be clearer.
If you want to improve organisational performance, then raise your people's
level of engagement.
Talent Engagement
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