Careers and Performance
Career Pathways
At Let’s Talk Talent, we’re all about creating clear and accessible career pathways that empower your people to own their growth. Career development shouldn’t feel like a maze; your team deserves a straightforward roadmap. With our support, they’ll know exactly where they’re headed.
Career pathways are like a build-your-own-burger menu – your team gets to choose what suits them best, while you provide the essential tools and guidance to make it happen. We focus on identifying key skills and leveraging resources like STAR maps and career navigators to empower your people. Embracing the 70/20/10 model, we know that while most learning happens on the job, that 30% you can influence truly makes a difference. Let’s us help your team to create pathways that attract, engage, and retain your top talent! Our Career Navigator tool breaks down potential pathways, highlighting key decision points rather than listing every possible route. This inspires your people to explore exciting opportunities ahead!
Over a series of four sprints, we look at understanding ourselves, our values, and our strengths. We explore what we want to be known for in our career, and how our network can help us on the journey.
By the end of the Career Development bootcamp, you’ll leave feeling empowered, confident and equipped to navigate your career journey ahead. All of the tools great to use with individuals or teams.
Explore your career goals using 3 practical models plus hints and tips for great future career conversations. Data has shown that career progression is the single biggest development issue raised by employees.
Competency Frameworks
What’s the benefits? If your people don’t know what’s expected of them, it’s hard to hit the mark. That’s where a clear and simple competency framework comes in. At Let’s Talk Talent, we believe that outlining the skills, behaviours, and attitudes that drive success isn’t just about performance – it’s about creating clarity for your team and boosting retention. Our STAR model helps break it all down, making it easy for your people to understand what they need to succeed and for managers to lead with purpose. Simple, actionable, and designed to drive results.
A strong competency framework goes beyond just listing skills – it shows your people exactly what they need to succeed, how to do it, and how to grow with your business. It’s not a dry job description or a set of technical skills; it covers the training, behaviours, and relationships that drive success.
At Let’s Talk Talent, we believe in keeping frameworks clear and simple. When done right, they provide clarity and motivation, ensuring your team knows what’s expected, how to deliver, and how to move forward in their careers. It’s about getting, keeping, and growing brilliant people. Competency frameworks have evolved, and it’s time to ditch the outdated versions.
The world of work has changed, people aren’t waiting for years to climb the ladder. At Let’s Talk Talent, we believe frameworks should be flexible and agile, adapting to today’s fast-paced environment. When kept fresh and relevant, they become powerful tools for growth and success.
Many managers report that they do not know where to start when it comes to career conversations. This workshop will help you understand how you can best support your team with effective career conversations.
Creating a high-performance culture is a challenge faced by many organisations. Within this workshop, we look at the components a high-performance culture and the fundamental steps needed to create one.
This workshop will help you think through the important elements to consider when setting objectives and gives you an opportunity to review an objective against a clear structure so that it can become more impactful.
Succession Planning
At Let’s Talk Talent, we show you how to bring together strategy, creativity, and people-centered insights that reshape succession planning. We leave behind those outdated, rigid processes that don’t align with the fast-changing needs of today’s workforce.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, we tailor our methods to fit your unique culture and business goals. By focusing on key traits like Courage, Impact, and Curiosity, we help you identify high-potential employees who could step into future leadership roles. While no one is perfect, our approach highlights development opportunities and gives you a clear roadmap to nurture the leaders of tomorrow.
Don’t wait until your top talent leaves to start thinking about their replacements. Succession planning doesn’t have to be a long, drawn-out process – it can be streamlined into just 8-12 weeks.
It’s not a one-and-done task; it’s an ongoing effort to identify, nurture, and grow the talent within your business. At Let’s Talk Talent, we believe succession planning should go beyond the Senior Leaders and cover key specialists too, especially in today’s competitive job market where businesses risk losing critical expertise.
Succession planning is about turning uncertainty into opportunity, ensuring you have the next generation of leaders and specialists ready to step up when needed. Whether you’re just starting or refining your strategy, we’re here to help you figure out what succession planning looks like for your unique business. It’s never too early – or too late to get started. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get it done!
The session will equip line managers with the tools they need to support your people’s career goals. At the end of the session, you will have the confidence and skills to run a manager workshop on career conversations.
Learn how to have structured conversations with your line manager about your career, and gain practical tools that you can apply during your next career conversation to take control of your career journey.
Networks are becoming increasingly important to career success and growth. This workshop will take you through the benefits of building your network and give you some great tips on how to get started.
Performance Management
At Let’s Talk Talent, we see performance management a little differently. While it often carries a negative tone, we believe it’s all about unlocking potential and helping people thrive within your business. In fact, we prefer calling it “performance development” – shifting the focus from simply measuring performance to truly enhancing it. It’s not just about hitting targets; it’s about understanding how someone contributes, both in what they achieve and how they behave.
Too often, performance management becomes overly focused on rewards, but at Let’s Talk Talent, we like to keep things simple. We break it down into three key elements: People, Managers, and Process. When you find the right balance between these, you create an approach that boosts individual motivation, aligns with your culture, and drives meaningful results. Performance development shouldn’t be complicated, and it should empower your people to grow and deliver their best.
Ready to toss the traditional HR rulebook out the window? You’re in the right spot! Over 80% of companies still cling to those annual performance assessments, even though they often miss the mark. The workplace is evolving at lightning speed, and that once-a-year review just doesn’t cut it anymore. Instead, let’s embrace a continuous performance development process that recognises individual contributions and fuels motivation through regular feedback conversations.
At LTT, we believe in building a culture of high performance where everyone feels energised and valued for their unique contributions. We’ll help you transform your performance management approach, guiding your HR and leadership teams to create an environment where people thrive. By training managers to have meaningful performance conversations – both formal and informal – you can ensure everyone understands how their efforts support the team and organisation. Let’s make performance development a dynamic and rewarding journey for all!
Want to elevate your performance management game? Start by training your managers to conduct appraisals like pros! Many organisations overlook how crucial it is to have informed leaders guiding developmental feedback, and let’s face it – most managers haven’t received any training on how to handle career progression or performance reviews.
That’s where we come in! At Let’s Talk Talent, we provide engaging workshops and training sessions to empower your managers, helping them navigate performance conversations with confidence and skill. Let’s turn those reviews into meaningful growth opportunities!
Feedback is a critical skill for all managers to possess, as it is a gift to develop and nurture our people. This webinar will give you the skill, the ability to have better performance management conversations.
In this webinar we explore what performance actually means, and give you the questions that you can start to answer when refreshing or redesigning your performance management approach.
This workshop will give you factors to consider, along with a framework to implement, when supporting your managers in improving their skills and confidence to have consistent feedback conversations.
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