Managing Talent
Enhance your leadership skills and learn how to effectively select, onboard, manage, and develop talent in your teams.
Duration
4 weeksWeekly study
3 hours
Managing Talent
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Explore the importance of developing your talent
CEOs cite managing and developing their leadership talent as the most important issue for the future success of their business.
On this four-week course, you’ll gain the insights, frameworks, and tools to effectively manage and develop talent in your teams and organisation.
Develop skills in onboarding, recruiting, and retaining talent
You’ll learn the best practices for selecting and onboarding your talent, as well as coaching skills to help them realise their full potential.
To help further your employees development, you’ll learn the key approaches to measuring and evaluating performance.
With these insights, you can tailor your managerial style to your employees to ensure each team member excels.
Increase your leadership skills with experts at Michigan University
By the end of this course, you’ll have a thorough understanding of the complete cycle of managing talent. Learning alongside the leadership experts at Michigan University, you’ll understand how to create an effective talent pipeline for your team and business.
This course is part of the Leading People and Teams ExpertTrack, a comprehensive set of leadership courses to help you develop in your role as team leader.
Syllabus
Week 1
The Talent Pipeline
First Things First
First Things First
Match Making
Match Making
The Right Person in the Right Place
The Right Person in the Right Place
Welcome to the Team
Welcome to the Team
Week 2
Managing Performance Evaluation and Feedback
Managing Performance Evaluation and Feedback
Managing Performance Evaluation and Feedback
Week 3
Developing and Coaching Your People
Developing People Drives Results
Developing People Drives Results
ACS Model: Assessment
ACS Model: Assessment
ACS Model: Challenge
ACS Model: Challenge
ACS Model: Support
ACS Model: Support
Recap: Developing and Coaching Your People
Recap: Developing and Coaching Your People
Week 4
Creating and Building a Robust Talent Pipeline
Talent for Leadership
Talent for Leadership
People are Everything
People are Everything
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Develop best practices for selecting, recruiting, and onboarding talent.
- Develop and coach your talent so that they can realize their full potential at work.
Who is the course for?
This course will suit you if you want to learn the skills to manage talent including the selection, recruiting, and onboarding process.
Who developed the course?
University of Michigan
As the #1 public research university in the United States, U-M has been a leader in research, learning, and teaching for more than 200 years, with 102 Grad programs in the top 10 — U.S. News & World Report (2019).
Established
1817Location
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAWorld ranking
Top 30Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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