Overcoming challenges around talent management
Pre-Conference Workshop A
Monday 14th May, 2012
9:00am – 4:00pm
Public sector organisations are increasingly turning their attention to talent management in order to ensure their organisations have the capabilities, and leaders, required to meet future challenges. But talent management isn’t easy – particularly in the public sector context.
This highly practical workshop will explore how organisations can manage some of the most common challenges associated with establishing and rolling out talent management and associated initiatives. There will also be time for delegates to explore how they might tackle their specific challenges with the facilitator and the group.
Challenges to be explored include:
- Gaining support/buy-in from the Executive for talent initiatives
- Establishing governance arrangements that will support leader-led initiatives
- Overcoming the misconception that talent programs circumvent merit selection
- Effectively managing people and their expectations through programs – showing that participation doesn’t always equal promotion
- How to embed diversity/flexibility into talent programs
- Harnessing the ‘talent’ of those concluding their careers to develop future leaders
About your workshop leader:
Workforce Strategies
Stephen is a workforce strategist who supports individuals, teams and organisations to deliver contemporary and compelling human resource outcomes.
Stephen is a skilled practitioner and experienced executive having worked with CEOs and senior leaders to deliver organisational outcomes.
He is a mentor, leadership facilitator and public speaker who is passionate about talent management.
Stephen is the former head of human resources in the Australian Federal Police, the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Australian Agency for International Development.
Complementing Stephen’s workforce expertise is a practical understanding of business, customer service and policy development.
Stephen’s career spans private and public sectors, having worked in Canberra, Sydney, Bangkok and Tokyo. Stephen has worked in policy and program delivery roles in several Australian Government Departments and Agencies including: the Australian Tax Office; the Australian Agency for International Development including three years as a Diplomat at the Australian Embassy Bangkok; and the Australian Public Service Commission.
While he remains unsure of what he’ll do when he grows up, Stephen’s career thus far has given him a diverse perspective on people, leadership and development challenges that surround today’s workforce.
