Talent Development

In Small and Medium sized Enterprises

Ing. M.H.M. Hammer M.Sc.

• Short general introduction

• Theory:• What is talent?• How to develop?

• Practice:• Casus: You

Index

WHAT IS A TALENT?Give examples!

A talent is:• Old Greek: a weight or sum of money of that

weight. Later the disposition or ´gift of God´. (van Dale, 2009)

• Best & Brightest. (Knegtmans, 2009)

• Exceptional disposition (Wikipedia, 2010).• Relative.• Talent (Dutch, English, French, African, Catalonian, Russian,

German, Romanian, Icelandic, Czech, Danish, Norwegian) • Fi: lahjakkuus,

Facts

• Training has more effect than Genetic factors.

• Top talent = (talent * mentality) / ego (T. van het Hek, 2000)

• Talent is gained by internal motivation and long, effective and focussed training.

• Be willing to is more important than be able to. (Knegtmans, 2009)

How to develop?

What to develop?

• Your talents!Exercise 1a

• But: what are Your talents?• How to distinguish them?

The Competent EggThe Competent Egg

Knowledge

Application

Behaviour

Talent

Source: N. Vloon, 2002

Structure

Context

What suites You?

• What do You like?• What distinguishes You?• What is appreciated?

• Problem: You don´t know for yourself.

Identify Your talents

• Use tools as:– 360° Feedback– Personal SWOT– Explicit Your context

Difficulties

• SME-issues:– No HRM-department

• job coach• assessment centres

– No broad scope of specialists– Limited places to work (fte)

• job rotation • spare time for development • exemplary roles

Talent development in SME´s

Today

NearFuture

Pers. SW360° feedbackcontext

farFuture

Talent

Talent needed

Pers. goalsBusiness goals

Talent developme

nt

Development in SME´s

• Training in the same context, maintain the talent.

• Training in a different (future orientated) context, increase the talent, makes it more valuable.

Exercise 3

Summery

1. Determine what your motivation is; what make you have fun.

2. Determine your relevant talents.3. Determine what is your goal.4. Create training activities in another

professional context.5. Do it! (with motivation and drive)

Thank You for your Attention

For more information, suggestions or cooperation, do not hesitate to

contact:

m.h.m.hammermsc@saxion.nl