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The Future of Leadership Potential *NEW*

How to define, identify, measure and realise the leadership potential of employees at all levels

Event details

Duration: 1-day interactive seminar

Participants: Maximum 20
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Price: £550 + VAT
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Overview

Identifying, developing and retaining people who demonstrate ‘potential’ is central to the sustained success of any organisation and requires HR and L&D professionals to have in place efficient strategies and processes for talent management.

A critical challenge for HR and L&D teams is to define the nebulous concept of potential and develop a range of practical strategies to identify it within diverse goups of employees who are at different stages of their career, in a variety of job functions and with a range of aspirations and motivations.

If you are seeking to understand potential, how to identify it and then develop key individuals this seminar, developed in collaboration with The Thinking Partnership, will enable you to develop and deliver robust talent management strategies.

Delivered by a talent management experts, the interactive programme will introduce you to a proven tool for assessing potential and allow you to improve the impact of their talent management efforts for employees at all levels of the organisation.
 

Seminar Highlights

  • Learn how to define potential and ways to differentiate and judge role potential and personal potential more consistently
  • Hear from senior HR practitioners about identifying future leader potential and other kinds of potential
  • Gain access to a tried and tested analytical tool for identifying talent and potential
  • Debate with other senior peers how these tools and approaches address the challenge of judging and developing potential more reliably and consistently
     

Programme

09:00

Registration and coffee

09:30

Welcome & introductions

09:45

Back to the Future: the evolution of leadership potential and the talent journey

  • A historical and chronological perspective and the unintended consequences of how we identify and measure talent and potential
  • The problem for organisations of the War on Talent; the blind alley of competence and personality measures; and the reason so many lateral hires fail
  • Why learning agility does not give you the full picture on potential
  • The talent ‘puzzle’: making long-term predictions in a world that is constantly changing�

Arabella Ellis, The Thinking Partnership

Garfield Harmon, The Thinking Partnership

10:30

The Future is Now: getting to the heart of our ability to identify talent in the future

  • Why a learning approach to talent and potential is more likely to offer you solutions that can be acted upon
  • What is potential, why it does matter and how it is different to talent – or Talent
  • Latest research on the character strengths and intelligences that underpin different kinds of potential
  • Becoming a better judge of talent and provider of talent solutions: a 21st century view�

Mark Loftus, The Thinking Partnership

11:15

Break

11:45

Case study: Future proofing the talent pool

  • Identifying the future leader: core attributes
  • Characteristics of specific types of leadership potential
  • Using CharacterScope as a talent review approach:
    • How does the process work?
  • Implications for development strategies: developing a culture of potential to help people use talents to their best 

Vanessa Loughlin, Head of Talent at Virgin Media 

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Case studies: Inclusive approaches to identifying potential and managing talent

  • Practitioner case studies of how the identification and measurement of potential can be built into talent management strategies 

Speakers to be confirmed

 

15:00

Break

15:30

Group discussion: Final thoughts and forward plans

  • In order to bring the seminar to a close the group will reflect on the lessons learnt over the course of the day and investigate the ways in which the tools and techniques can be applied to the talent recruitment and retention needs of their own organisation.�

Philippa Dickenson, The Thinking Partnership

Further speakers to be confirmed

16:30

Close of seminar

Speakers

Philippa Dickenson

Philippa's curiosity about what makes people effective has been refined from working as an organisation specialist and executive coach for many years. She helps board members and leadership teams to think strategically rather than operationally, and use their intuition and judgement more powerfully. Philippa is a registered psychotherapist with an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy. She has an MBA from INSEAD and worked as a senior strategy consultant at McKinsey. Philippa began her professional life as a chartered engineer and has an engineering degree from Cambridge University. She brings a graceful discipline to all that she does. 

Arabella Ellis

Arabella has a strong belief in people's potential to get more out of themselves. It's what has driven her for 25 years to help develop the strengths of business leaders, their organisations and their teams. It's also what gets her out on her bike to power up the next hill. Arabella brings fresh perspective to solving problems and clients appreciate her winning combination of business acumen and deep psychological insight. Arabella is a founder of the company. She is a chartered psychologist and has a masters degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Liverpool. She also studied Social Psychology at the University of Kent and the University of Massachusetts. 

Garfield Harmon

Garfield is a coach and consultant psychologist with 25 years experience. He has coached Heads of Learning and Development Programmes in University settings, as well as working for the NHS and Home Office Prison Service. Garfield holds a PhD, the theme of which explored how professionals managed their work relationships and how this linked to how they managed issues of 'role power' and 'personal power'. Garfield has an MSc in Consulting to Organisations and is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. 

Mark Loftus

Mark has always been curious about people and how relationships really work. It's what led him to develop a unique metric for measuring the quality of relationships. Mark has 25 years' experience as an organisational consultant and is a recognised authority on emotional intelligence and the art of assessing senior leaders. A chartered clinical psychologist, Mark is a founder of the company and heads its assessment practice. He has an MPhil from London's Institute of Psychiatry and a degree in Philosophy and Psychology from Oxford University. Mark's curiosity about the world draws him into many fields, such as the temperature required for perfect powder snow and the ideal music for enjoying it on his snowboard. 

Designed for

This thought leadership seminar will be of value to all those professionals who have a responsibility for choosing and managing talent selection approaches and processes or for influencing those who do. It will be of particular relevance to:

HR Directors
Heads of Talent Management Programmes
Learning & Development Managers

Discounts

Multiple booking discount

Receive a 20% discount when you book more than one event, or book more than one person on the same event. Please note this discount only applies to the lesser priced booking and when all bookings are placed together.

Registered charities

You are entitled to a 25% discount on your booking if you are a registered charity. This discount will show on your invoice once your booking is submitted. You will need your charity registration number for the booking form.

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