Military Talent Management

Assignment Instructions: Analyze the concepts and theories you read about in S301; utilizing key language and terms from these concepts and theories, write a 800-1200 word paper on the challenges of talent management and how a SGM can engage organizational members for competitive success in future assignments while ensuring their organizational members remain adaptable. Keep in mind your analysis of the content material and your personal experience will help you with this paper. This paper can incorporate personal experiences to help illustrate your understanding of the material and to show examples. This assignment also allows for you to write in first person as you illustrate certain experiences within your paper. Ensure to use good APA 7th Edition writing style, list the references used, and cite them within the paper.

Assigned Student Readings

Scan DA PAM 600-25 Chapter 2 & 3

(1) S301RA: Human Resources Management, Issues, Challenges and Trends “Now and Around the Corner” Chapters 2, 8 and 9, pp. 33-52, pp.163-184-160 and pp. 185-200

(2) S301RB: Employee Engagement, Creating positive energy at work, Chapters 1, 6 and 7, pp. 1-24, pp. 145-182 and pp.184-206

(3) S301RC: Trends and Future of Talent Management, pp. 212-241

(4) S301RD: Soldier for Life – Transition Assistance Program, Army Regulation 600-81, pp. 1-27

Reflection Questions during readings:

(1) Why does a company need talent management?

(2) Why is trust so important for a manager/team leader?

(3) Is servant leadership the answer?

(4) What is the mission of the Soldier for Life Transition Assistance Program?

This assessment targets the following ELO 400-SMC-1015.30.1 (S301: Human Resources in the Workforce)

According to Army Doctrine leader development must foster the cognitive, social, and physical competencies associated with the human dimension. War fundamentally remains a human contest of wills, despite the advances in technology. Producing a professional NCO corps demands a comprehensive Human Dimension Strategy oriented on the individual, the team, and the institution.

The roles and responsibilities for the NCO have always been to lead, train, and care for Soldiers and equipment while enforcing standards. The Army must have a cohort of competent and committed NCOs of character as trusted professionals who thrive in chaos, adapt, and win in a complex world. The Army’s NCO 2020 Strategy provides the ways, means, and ends to develop a professional, trained, and ready NCO corps that is essential to remain as the world’s premier fighting force.

Leader development is further enhanced by recognizing, developing, and maturing talents in Soldiers while simultaneously managing talent to meet the immediate and long-term goals of the ALDS. Together, leader development and talent management build on the fundamentals.

Talent is the intersection of three dimensions—skills, knowledge, and behaviors—that create an optimal level of individual performance, provided individuals are employed within their talent set. Talent management is a way to enhance Army readiness by maximizing the potential of the Army’s greatest asset—our people. By better understanding the talent of the workforce and the talent necessary to meet capability needs by unit requirements, the Army can more effectively acquire, develop, employ, and retain the right talent at the right time. In Army talent management, “best” equals best fit for the work at hand.

TALENT MANAGEMENT.

Talent management is a deliberate and coordinated process that aligns systematic planning for the right number and type of people to meet current and future Army talent demands with integrated implementation to ensure the majority of those people are optimally employed. Talent management extracts the most productivity and value from an organization’s greatest asset – its people. Army talent management integrates people acquisition, development, employment and retention strategies. It begins with entry-level employees and aligns their talents against the demand for them during their entire careers, to include positions at the very top of the Army.

A trusted and open system for managing Army talent will incentivize a culture of development, strength and service

1. Sustains Long-Term Readiness: Talent Management delivers readiness for this fight while preparing for the next.

2. Managing People As Individuals: Talent Management recognizes that everyone has talent strengths, and great organizations maximize individual talents to meet organizational needs by placing the right person in the right job at the right time over time.

3. Better Data leads to Informed Decisions: Talent Management strives to give people and organizations more relevant information to drive better decisions.

4. Empowers Leaders & Individuals: Talent Management allows individuals to define career success for themselves, advertise their talents, seek opportunities in line with those talents, and employed by leaders with direct hiring authority and understanding their team’s specific needs.

5. Tech-Enabled, People Focused: Technology is a compliment to, but not a substitute for, the human dimension of talent.

6. Influences Behavior: Talent Management uses markets and incentives to drive behavior.

7. Fosters a Culture of Assessments: Talent Management promotes organizational, leader and self-awareness through rigorous assessments of individuals and teams

8. Builds Trust: Talent Management builds trust over time through consistency, transparency, balancing individual and family needs with the needs of the Army and honoring commitments made through the management process.

9. Retain Talent: Talent Management reveals granular information about people leading to better and more focused retention decisions of high demand talent.

10 Personal Accountability. Talent Management requires every officer to take ownership of their own personal and career decisions.

11. Flexibility. Talent Management builds flexibility into our career models to better accommodate personal and professional choices to apply to the needs of the Army.

12. Enhances Organizational Agility. Talent Management Army promotes increased organizational agility and innovative out-of­-the-box thinking in response to new challenges and opportunities.