Future-Ready Talent: Building a Talent Pipeline for Sustained Business Success
How can I make sure that the organization has the talent it needs to meet today's challenges and tomorrow's priorities? How can I identify and progress the right employees and manage succession planning in a constantly changing world?

Written for senior HR professionals, Future-Ready Talent combines insights from psychology, neuroscience and new technology with the latest academic research to provide an evidence-based guide to building a talent pipeline for sustained business success. This book explores how the talent demands of organizations are changing and why existing approaches to employee development are no longer fit for purpose. There is discussion of how talent assessment must change and guidance on how advances in technology and psychometrics can support this.

This book also offers in-depth discussion on how to define expertise, knowledge, skills and experience and the importance of these in an AI-enhanced world. There is expert advice on how to build the future-ready talent pool that the business needs including discussion of the benefits of neurodiversity, gender and cultural diversity in teams as well as outlining mechanisms for high-impact development of future-ready talent. With guidance on how to assess whether it is more effective to hire new talent or develop staff internally, approaches for accelerating talent development in line with strategic objectives and advice for managing talent in a multigenerational workforce, this is guide is ideal reading for senior HR practitioner and business leaders. Written by experts from IMD Business School and full of actionable frameworks, tools and real-world examples from global organizations, this is the book needed by anyone needing to create a secure pipeline of future-proof talent for sustained success.

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Future-Ready Talent: Building a Talent Pipeline for Sustained Business Success
How can I make sure that the organization has the talent it needs to meet today's challenges and tomorrow's priorities? How can I identify and progress the right employees and manage succession planning in a constantly changing world?

Written for senior HR professionals, Future-Ready Talent combines insights from psychology, neuroscience and new technology with the latest academic research to provide an evidence-based guide to building a talent pipeline for sustained business success. This book explores how the talent demands of organizations are changing and why existing approaches to employee development are no longer fit for purpose. There is discussion of how talent assessment must change and guidance on how advances in technology and psychometrics can support this.

This book also offers in-depth discussion on how to define expertise, knowledge, skills and experience and the importance of these in an AI-enhanced world. There is expert advice on how to build the future-ready talent pool that the business needs including discussion of the benefits of neurodiversity, gender and cultural diversity in teams as well as outlining mechanisms for high-impact development of future-ready talent. With guidance on how to assess whether it is more effective to hire new talent or develop staff internally, approaches for accelerating talent development in line with strategic objectives and advice for managing talent in a multigenerational workforce, this is guide is ideal reading for senior HR practitioner and business leaders. Written by experts from IMD Business School and full of actionable frameworks, tools and real-world examples from global organizations, this is the book needed by anyone needing to create a secure pipeline of future-proof talent for sustained success.

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Future-Ready Talent: Building a Talent Pipeline for Sustained Business Success

Future-Ready Talent: Building a Talent Pipeline for Sustained Business Success

by Tania Lennon, Ric Roi
Future-Ready Talent: Building a Talent Pipeline for Sustained Business Success

Future-Ready Talent: Building a Talent Pipeline for Sustained Business Success

by Tania Lennon, Ric Roi

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How can I make sure that the organization has the talent it needs to meet today's challenges and tomorrow's priorities? How can I identify and progress the right employees and manage succession planning in a constantly changing world?

Written for senior HR professionals, Future-Ready Talent combines insights from psychology, neuroscience and new technology with the latest academic research to provide an evidence-based guide to building a talent pipeline for sustained business success. This book explores how the talent demands of organizations are changing and why existing approaches to employee development are no longer fit for purpose. There is discussion of how talent assessment must change and guidance on how advances in technology and psychometrics can support this.

This book also offers in-depth discussion on how to define expertise, knowledge, skills and experience and the importance of these in an AI-enhanced world. There is expert advice on how to build the future-ready talent pool that the business needs including discussion of the benefits of neurodiversity, gender and cultural diversity in teams as well as outlining mechanisms for high-impact development of future-ready talent. With guidance on how to assess whether it is more effective to hire new talent or develop staff internally, approaches for accelerating talent development in line with strategic objectives and advice for managing talent in a multigenerational workforce, this is guide is ideal reading for senior HR practitioner and business leaders. Written by experts from IMD Business School and full of actionable frameworks, tools and real-world examples from global organizations, this is the book needed by anyone needing to create a secure pipeline of future-proof talent for sustained success.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781398628045
Publisher: Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date: 07/28/2026
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Tania Lennon leads the Strategic Talent team for IMD business school. She is an expert on future-ready talent development, including innovative assessment methods to maximize the impact of talent development on individual and organizational performance. She is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ric Roi is Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Organization at IMD business school. He is a senior business psychologist and an expert in top team effectiveness and strategic talent management solutions. Based in Singapore, Singapore, he has led advisory projects for clients in over 30 countries.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 01: The Talent Challenge; ** Chapter - 02: The Talent Development Challenge; ** Chapter - 03: The Diverse Talent challenge; ** Chapter - 04: The Talent Assessment challenge; ** Chapter - 05: The Talent Progression challenge; ** Chapter - 06: The Talent Expertise Challenge; ** Chapter - 07: The Talent Pipeline Amplification Challenge; ** Chapter - 08: The Talent Metrics challenge
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