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Data-Driven Talent Mapping

Creating full transparency of your workforce skills

Our Data-Driven Talent Mapping is a simple and transparent process designed to help retailers drive organisational skills change.

We create a bespoke skills framework for your business before mapping your workforce skills, to give you the information you need to invest your L&D budget in a smart and value-driving way.

Through forensic, data-driven gap analysis we provide full transparency of the skills across your business, or in specific teams, and create targeted development pathways designed to meet your skills gaps and business objectives.

Our approach helps you:

  • Create skills and competency transparency across your workforce and/or specific teams and groups
  • Invest your learning and development budget in a smarter way to target most in-need areas
  • Demonstrate clear and quantifiable impact and ROI of your investment
  • Create a clear and achievable skills framework to enhance engagement, progression and performance
  • Establish clear development objectives and intent aligned with outputs of mapping
  • Understanding of your critical and emerging skills gaps to inform talent attraction and development strategies

the process

We follow a simple, collaborative process that is moulded to suit the way you work.

  1. Create bespoke skills framework

    We work with you to define a skills framework, either from scratch or incorporating existing structures. We overlay industry trends, standards and themes and ensure the framework focuses on immediate and future skills.

  2. Map team against skills framework

    We use a bi-party approach, similar to 360 feedback; individuals and line managers rate themselves against each core area. The assessment provides clear data points for in-depth analysis.

  3. Extensive skills gap analysis

    Forensic and data-driven approach to gap analysis using clear, digestible and engaging visuals. Reporting and insights segmented at multiple levels including global, team, role and individual.

  4. Create bespoke development pathways

    Results of talent mapping used as reference point to develop targeted talent development pathways and individual learner journeys.

  5. Impact (Re)mapping

    (Re)mapping of team and individuals post development period to demonstrate impact of activity and distance travelled. Updated gap analysis to refine and hone approach.

  6. Use framework and outputs to support CPD

    Integrate the talent mapping into your progression and succession planning, and performance management process. Use the mapping and data to enable informed and objective conversations.

Develop Smart

Maximise the impact of your L&D budget by creating targeted learning and develop pathways.

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Key benefits of our approach:

  • Bespoke to your business, aligned with industry trends and best-practice
  • Clear and achievable competency structure aligned to how you work
  • Objective data focused on evidence and insight
  • Actionable outputs
  • Targeted training and development activity linked to outputs
  • Simple framework for ongoing CPD
  • Quantifiable impact measures
  • Drives self-awareness and confidence in teams
  • Catalyst for development conversations
  • Built on extensive industry research
  • Bi party validation

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