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Description

Talent Management: Identifying Potential, Developing and Retaining

One day to identify the skills your business depends on and retain the people who hold them

  • 1 day — 7 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

An employee seen as a cornerstone of the business resigns and the organisation discovers that no alternative had ever been prepared. Nothing in the previous review conversations had suggested it was coming. Elsewhere, employees who could take on greater responsibility remain invisible because their line manager never puts their name forward.

This one-day programme offers a method designed for organisations that have no formal talent process in place. Participants learn how to define what talent means in their own context, how to run a talent review, how to prepare succession on business-critical roles and how to build development pathways. The discussion also covers what happens when a talent policy is poorly explained to teams.

Learning objectives

  • Define the skills that are critical to your organisation's activity
  • Identify the roles whose vacancy would disrupt operations
  • Run a talent review with line managers against explicit criteria
  • Build a development pathway tailored to an identified employee
  • Prevent the side effects of poorly communicated talent identification

What makes this programme different

A talent review role-played with managers defending their own team members
A map of business-critical roles built on the participant's own organisation chart
A candid treatment of how transparent to be with the employees concerned

Programme

1Defining talent in your own context

Critical skills and business-critical roles

  • Translating the organisation's direction into skills that must be secured
  • Identifying roles whose vacancy would disorganise the activity
  • Identification criteria beyond current performance
  • The limits of an approach reserved for management grades only

2Identifying and assessing

Talent review and cross-checked perspectives

  • Preparing a talent review with line managers
  • Distinguishing current performance from capacity to progress
  • Cross-checking perspectives to limit isolated judgements
  • Records kept and the precautions to observe

3Developing and retaining

Pathways, mobility and stated expectations

  • Building a tailored development pathway
  • Retention levers other than pay
  • Preparing succession on business-critical roles
  • What is communicated to identified employees and to everyone else

Who is it for

Human resources managers · leaders of small organisations · learning and skills development managers.

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge required

Dates & locations

24 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.