Talent Management Consulting 

 A recent CIPD survey revealed....

60% of organisations in both public & private sectors 
     have no formal talent management and succession planning programs.

The same survey found....

 94% agreed talent management was critical to achieving business success

This seems to match our experience.
There is no one blue-print for effective talent management, one thing we are sure of is that Talent Management must encompass all people at all levels.



Each organisation is different. We help you to develop the know-how needed to create and install effective yet practical policies.
We also help to implement simple, easy approaches that take today’s talent and develops them to deliver tomorrow’s performance and business success.

A Rainmaker consultant knows you have to dance to different tunes in tough times.
This creates opportunities for your people and your business to grow.
That may mean looking at what you do and the way that you do it .
It may also mean looking at the people who are performing the tasks.
Maybe looking at how they are trained & prepared for the tasks they have to do

How does Talent Management Consulting help you?

We work with you and your project teams to:

• Make sure talent management helps deliver your strategy, objectives and priorities.
• Hire the right people in the right roles at the right time.
• Create a working environment that encourages people to stay and succeed in your business.
• Identify and grow your current leaders and top talent.
• Identify and grow your next generation leaders.
• Build seamless succession planning to ensure business continuity.
• Balance individual needs and aspirations with those of your business.

What will the Rainmaker Talent Management Consulting team give you?

    •    Sound advice to help you decide the best approaches to Managing your Talent
    •    A 90-day talent management route map
    •    A consultant who works alongside your executives and project teams
    •    Workshops, consulting & help throughout
    •    Assistance to put together and implement talent action plans
    •    A series of sessions to review progress, successes and challenges
    •    Ongoing support and guidance from the consultant via web and phone
    •    Insight into what behaviours support you and which don’t
    •    Assistance to achieve more than you could on your own

What benefits will I get from the Talent Management Consulting Rainmaker Team?

    •    Faster implementation of changes
    ◦    Leading to reduced costs of change
    •    Increased organisation flexibility
    ◦    Enabling your organisation to compete effectively
    •    Reduced risk of reversion to previous ways
    ◦    Captures the associated wasted effort of change failures
    •    Transfer of knowledge and skill to client’s staff
    ◦    Reduces the need to buy more consulting

Who actually delivers the Talent Management Consulting?

Here are 3 examples of our consultants

Allan James:  Talent Management Consulting deliverer

During the last 25 years, Allan has delivered consulting and facilitation services to leaders and managers in a range of businesses in Hewlett-Packard.

This has included the telecom, electronics, consulting and IT sectors as well as functional organisations such as HR, Supply Chain and Marketing. Prior to this he worked in the FMCG, Retailing, Telecom and Construction/ Civil Engineering industries.

He has focused his expertise in a number of areas: business strategy and planning; organisation design; managing organisational change; executive and manager coaching; Team development; business process improvement.
What Allan’s clients have valued about working with him is his ability to help them cut through complexity and find a practical way of moving forward.

He helps them to measure their results in terms of improved individual and organisational performance. In particular he builds his clients’ capability and confidence in their own ability to deliver strong business results and meet their aspirations. Leaders and managers who want to increase their business, team or individual performance would benefit from speaking with Allan and where appropriate, engaging his support.

He has a Master of Science degree in Organisation Consulting and a Diploma in Management Studies. He takes a practical approach in working with clients and it is backed up by a sound knowledge of relevant theory.

Chris Gamblin: Talent Management Consulting deliverer

Chris has been a Director and Senior Consultant for twelve years and has worked closely, and at senior level, with companies such as JCB, Mowlem, BAE Systems, and Vodafone.

He has worked with Government departments such as the MOD and in a variety of Housing Associations. Chris also partners with Manchester Business School and Liverpool University.

Chris was previously European HR Director for Northern Telecom, and UK (Sales) HR Director for Hewlett Packard. His experience is in Top Team alignment and Business Direction (Strategy Development). He is a specialist in leadership and culture development.

Kevin Howes: Talent Management Consulting deliverer

Kevin has more than 25 years delivering bottom-line results in blue-chip companies and SMEs. Much of his experience and successes have been in the financial services, IT, telecommunications, automotive and pharmaceutical sectors.

His clients tell him they like his informal, practical, straight-talking approach and his knack of quickly pinpointing where performance can be improved. Happy to roll-up his sleeves and get dirt under his fingernails and build enduring relationships at all levels based on mutual trust, personal credibility and
a passion for achieving agreed results.

Kevin has achieved a solid track record of delivering results in companies like Accident Exchange, Barclays, Britax, BT Cellnet (now 02), DaimlerChrysler, EPSON, Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Legal & General, Lloyds Bank, Nortel, Oracle, Sankyo, TMP Worldwide, and Zurich Financial Services.

How about an example of  a client who has taken teh Talent Management Consulting service?

The Client

A fast growing, London HQ, Privately funded organisation

Client need:

Following the findings from the annual employee satisfaction survey, managers needed to:

• Find better ways to find people they need, and integrate them into their teams
• Improve their success rate interviewing and selecting the right people
• Better develop talented people to deliver future business goals
• Identify and develop future high performers and successors
• Better engage their employees
• Reduce unplanned attrition

Our approach:

Rainmaker researched, designed and ran a series of 2-hour workshops (Learnburns) that enabled managers at all levels
To:

• Write job and candidate profiles
• Create questioning frameworks that are consistent, fair and equitable
• Use practical selection, interviewing & talent management tools & techniques
• Work on real talent management and development needs
• Created measured talent management and development plans
• Gained the support of the Leadership team
• Overall the programme was the equivalent of a two-day workshop.
• Our client told us they could not spare their managers for that time all at once
• We invented the Learnburn (a 2 hour intense burst of learning)  for them 

The results          

• Reduction in both the cost and time taken to recruit the right people
• Improved employee satisfaction
  As measured by the annual employee satisfaction survey
• Reduced attrition

What do your current clients say of the Talent Management Consulting team?

A client recently said of Kevin Howes:

"The programme conducted by Rainmaker has been one of the most instructive
and useful experiences of my working life. The Rainmaker coach quickly understood
my business and challenges and provided a non-judgmental, balanced and pragmatic view.

The strategies I was able to formulate and implement have had a
dramatic bottom line impact and allowed me to become a more effective
manager and leader. I would recommend Rainmaker to anyone who struggles
to find the time to deal with the big stuff that makes the small stuff work smoothly"

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