Demystifying Talent Management

Demystifying Talent Management offers practical advice for all managers, HR professionals, senior leaders, and other employees on how to work together to build a talented and motivated workforce. The book addresses performance, development, coaching, feedback, compensation, and other elements of people management. By taking a 360-degree point of view, the book reveals how each stakeholder views the elements of people management, what they need from each element, and what confusion and conflicts arise among the stakeholders, limiting people’s potential. Using simple, straightforward language, Kim Janson tells you how you can avoid the confusion and conflicts.
Kim Janson is the CEO of Janson Associates, a firm dedicated to unleashing people’s potential. She was formerly the Chief Talent Management Officer at the H. J Heinz Company, Senior Vice President at Bank of America, and a senior leader at Hasbro, BancBoston Mortgage Corporation, and Bank of Boston.

Also available in the following formats: ePub, $11.99, 978-1-938548-31-4; pdf, $11.99, 978-1-938548-32-1.

“For anyone who wants to truly understand the powerful pieces to talent management and development.” — MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, author or editor of 34 books including the global bestsellers MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

“This book is a valuable resource for those that want to excel in managing and developing people.” – BILL JOHNSON, former Chairman, President, and CEO, H.J. Heinz Company

“[Kim's] book does a great job of taking the often confusing genre of managing or developing people and distilling the key ideas that, if you use them, will help make you a powerful leader.” – ALAN HASSENFELD, Chairman of the Executive Committee and former CEO, Hasbro

“This book provides a clear roadmap of how talent management really works. The tools, quick assessments, and reflection questions throughout the book combined with examples, specific instructions, and stellar advice make this a book you will reference throughout your career.” – SUZANNE GLASER, Director, Executive Coaching and Community Values Liaison, Harvard Business School