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Talent Engagement - How to Unlock People's Potential 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.
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The latest from David Macleod http://www.hrzone.co.uk/topic/strategies/engagement-key-success-tips-david-macleod
The MacLeod Report: Talent Engagement means Engaging For Success
Maynard Leigh has always believed that engaging talent is key to success in business. Engaging for success is a prevalent theme of the government's recent Macleod Report, and cites many examples of global organisations adjusting to the current economic downturn by increasing levels of talent engagement as a precursor to engaging for success.
The MacLeod Report suggests that talent engagement is vital to business success due to new levels of competition and standardisation across the industries. The people behind businesses are becoming increasingly important, as engaging for success brings cohesion between employers and employees and increases performance.
Inspiring employees is crucial to performance, with talent engagement ensuring the highest level of productivity. The MacLeod Report has found both talent engagement and engaging for success to be vital, as individuals are becoming the differentiating factors between standardised organisations.
Engaging Talent is a prevalent theme throughout the Macleod Report, and engaging for success is the key conclusion to be drawn, as well as:
· Providing a clear sense of corporate direction where all employees understand their role and how their role affects the business.
· Developing managers who actively pursue talent engagement, offer clarity and reinforce feedback.
· Creating an 'employee voice' across the company.
· Bringing together stated values and behaviours.
The MacLeod Report offers evidence of positive correlation between engaging talent and improved performance. It also illustrates the necessity of strong leadership, soft skills and the roles of both employers and employees in engaging for success.
Stuart Mackenzie, Maynard Leigh Associates Managing Director comments on the MacLeod Report
We wholeheartedly welcome this report. It raises again the issue that is core to our work: that people are central to an organisation's success and therefore what is required is people-centred leadership.
It is interesting that a principle of the phoney 'war for talent' is that talent is scarce. We believe that, as this report suggests, when you engage people, it releases their talent, and suddenly talent is abundant. We feel this report bears out the belief that rather than operate an elitist star system, in which you consider only your high potentials to be 'the talent', companies are more successful if they see themselves as ensembles. A strategy of employee engagement is a powerful force for growing everyone’s talent and therefore growing the organisation.
We have always operated with a model with the core principle that people become engaged if they feel Valued, Involved, Developed and Inspired. It is the leader's role to create the circumstances in which people can feel these positives. It is then that they produce outstanding performance. It is then that individual potential is unlocked, and with that, the organisation's potential.
The MacLeod Report doesn't claim to be a 'how-to' guide. With twenty years' experience in behavioural change, engaging talent and unlocking potential, Maynard Leigh Associates can fill that gap and take your business forward by engaging talent.
