Over the past few months StepStone has been working with Bersin & Associates to develop a tool for organisations to benchmark their strategies against best practices in Talent Management.

That tool, www.talentstrategyassessment.com, makes a complex task, really simple.  I'd had a go at using the tool myself and found that, after responding to 19 straight-forward questions in less than 10 minutes, I got two things:

1. A scorecard comparing my strategy to others from Bersin's huge pool of research, with red, amber and green status indicators that alert me to the areas I need to work on
2. A detailed (29 page) analysis and commentary of my responses with suggestions for improving my talent management strategy.

The scorecard and report covers the core of talent management strategy development:

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