Skills and the Internal Talent Marketplace

33mIntermediate2023-11-13

Authors

Erica Keswin

Best-Selling Author, Speaker, and Workplace Strategist

Course details

“Look inward” may sound like new-age advice for personal growth, but it’s also a great strategy for finding and hiring: Your next great employee may already work for you. In this course, Erica Keswin explains the importance of the internal talent marketplace when hiring. If employees don’t see opportunities for skill development and internal mobility, they will leave. Join Erica to learn why internal mobility matters and how to support personal and professional growth opportunities. Discover how to make skill-building a priority for your employees, and how you can amplify internal mobility to retain your staff.

Skills covered

Learning and DevelopmentCoaching and MentoringTalent ManagementHuman ResourcesLeadership and ManagementDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Skill building is good for people and great for business

1. Prioritize Skill Building and Internal Mobility, and Communicate It

02 - Create and communicate opportunities to build skills and move internally
03 - Make skill building and internal mobility a priority from day one
04 - Invest in professional development with no strings attached
05 - Get your managers on board

2. Create Skill-Building Opportunities

06 - Align skill building with your values
07 - Ritualize skill building during the workday
08 - Create skill-building opportunities through your employee resource groups (ERGs)
09 - Support all skill building even if it isn't job related

3. Design Opportunities for Internal Mobility

10 - Identify opportunities for internal mobility
11 - Match employees to new skills and projects
12 - Provide internal internships
13 - Leverage technology to fuel internal mobility
14 - Reallocate talent to high-need parts of the business

Conclusion

15 - Smart leaders prioritize upskilling