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Geoscience Conference & Exhibition
Innovative Geoscience Solutions – Meeting Hydrocarbon Demand in Changing Times
March 7-10, 2010 – Manama, Bahrain
Managing Talent to Improve Your Team’s Performance
(1) Justcroft International, Staplehurst, United Kingdom.
(2) Marsh & Consultants, Axminister, United Kingdom.
How do you know you have the correct mix of Talent for your Team? And, even if you do, is it being effectively managed? We present a 5-step methodology that ensures your Team performs successfully and effectively.
First we need to establish the strategic direction of the team. (I can’t know if I have the right people on the bus if I don’t know where the bus is going.) The functions and responsibilities are defined to achieve the stated strategy.
Next we establish the correct mix of skill sets needed to successfully, and effectively, carry out the strategic efforts of the team. These would include both technical and intangible skills.
The third step is to organise the required skills into desired roles or positions resulting in a set of Job Profiles. At this point the optimal team structure has been developed.
Next, you have to gather information from the people who are available to you, to best match their skills and responsibilities with the optimal roles you have defined. A Gap Analysis will identify skill gaps that, unless addressed, will prevent the team from being a high performing team.
The final step is to develop the team members to eliminate any skill gaps and thus ensure the team’s strategic objectives set in the first step are being met. Our methodology allows an individual’s skill and performance levels to be objectively measured and compared over a period of time and thus the individual’s development can be effectively managed.
We have found that interactive web technology makes our methodology easy to apply and provides the team and the individual with the instant results that they need. We present a real world application of the methodology in an oil exploration team with staff from diverse backgrounds.