Growing talent

Great managers are usually strong performers, but they typically lack an important skill they will need to be effective leaders – talent management.

And becoming a great talent agent isn’t easy. “It requires us as leaders to be more open minded and to throw away outdated, albeit popular, hiring tactics,” authors Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a talent scientist, and Jonathan Kirschner, a business psychologist, recently wrote in an article for Harvard Business Review.

“Too many of us look for talent in the same old (wrong) places, or follow the popular trend of thinking the ‘best hire’ is the ‘best culture fit.’ These approaches undermine efforts to boost diversity(demographically and cognitively) and ultimately hinder creativity and innovation.”

Get 7 science-based recommendations to help you update your hiring tactics, and develop your talent management skills along the way, in their HBR article, How the best managers identify and develop talent.