Talent Integration: Why So Many Companies Struggle with Low Retention

Overview : The integration of talent, whether promoted from within or hired from outside the organization, represents a critical career inflection point for the new employee. Too often this process is overlooked in small businesses or simplified in larger organizations through a quick orientation or onboarding process. This leaves people to attempt to adjust to their new organization and role on their own, negatively influencing their productivity and personal experience. Your new employees perception about your company is lowered, and ultimately your new top talent may leave. They will leave because they have options. 

Employees want to feel important, and they want to feel that they have been given a suitable opportunity to integrate into and succeed in their new organization. The key purpose of talent integration is to reduce the time for those new to their roles to become productive contributors (i.e., shorten the new job learning curve) and to swiftly anchor them into the organization through establishing strong relationships, support and loyalty. Talent integration helps new employees be successful corporate citizens earlier and helps employers retain new hires.  Strong “enculturation” also serves as a differentiator and becomes another way to attract talent to and keep talent in your organization. 

Why you should attend: A good hire that is not properly integrated into his or her new position and organization will very likely perform below expectations. So what is initially thought to be a positive move can quickly turn into a disappointment. Hiring disappointments are costly to the individual and to the organization. 

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Understand the distinction between talent integration verses traditional onboarding or orientation
• Learn the specific components necessary to develop a core talent integration program
• Learn four ways to determine if a candidate is a fit for the new role and your organization (strategies for the HR Leader or small business owner to initiate talent integration beginning at hiring)
• Identify where your organization is in the continuum of talent integration and how you can start if your organization does not yet have a talent integration process

Who Will Benefit:

• HR Leaders and Professionals
• Managers
• Supervisors
• Project Managers
• Team Leaders
• Emerging Leaders
• Entrepreneurs and Business Owners