• Why does good talent management remain so elusive
• What are the organisational challenges of talent management
• How is success measured
• What are the challenges for the next 10 years

Each of the discussion sessions will use an interactive process to share ideas, experiences and understanding of the themes of the conference. This will include:

• Using visual imagery to describe and share past and present experience
• Exploring some of the implications of the 'Talent Management Journey' in organisations
• A rapid process for sharing recommendations about best practice across the whole group

• Role of Talent Management within organisations
• The challenge of getting board executives buy-in
• Securing appropriate resource and business focus against other priorities

• Do you recognise that Talent Management cannot stand alone?
• Do you base your Talent Management on a clearly defined framework?
• How strongly are you focused on development?
• How are you going to measure the What, How and potential?

• What is RM?
• How does it work? Case study - Parc client
• What does it deliver?
• What are the myths?

• How do you establish when you have enough talent?
• What are the risks and benefits of having significant talent in your organisation?
• Can you ever have too much talent in a business?

• Internal succession verses new blood
• Linking the succession planning process to the strategic plan


• Performance in current role / Potential for future roles
• Understanding the leadership pipeline


• Ensuring leadership capability for assessment of potential
• Development planning - closing the loop
• Measuring progress

• Know where you are and why
• Who owns it?
• Strategy vs. practicality
• Does the process really work?
• What does it really tell you
• Tell it how it is

• Working with the outputs from your talent management process to ensure you have the right people in the right place for your future
• Ensuring you have the right solutions to develop "your pipeline"
• Designing tiered training and development solutions
• Looking at what is the return on investment
• Learn how DSGi are developing their talent strategies to become the biggest, best and most profitable specialist retailer in Europe

• Which dimensions of Talent Management have organisations exploited and how?
• What issues are organisations struggling to address?

• Challenge the panel on any aspect

• The golden nuggets of the day

• Networking