Talent management covers the full lifecycle of attracting, onboarding, developing and retaining high-performing employees.

Discover our reports and factsheets for important insights into career planning, recruiting and developing people and succession planning.

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Factsheets

Regularly-updated factsheets provide overviews and information on a topic

Two Factsheets about Talent management
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Employee turnover and retention
Learn how to measure turnover and retention, and understand why people leave organisations
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Talent management
Understand the benefits and key features of talent management

Guides

Designed for practitioners, our guides provide recommendations and advice on how to apply good practice in the workplace.

Two Guides about Talent management
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Talent management: Guidance for people professionals
How to develop a talent management approach that aligns to organisational strategies and culture and creates a high-performance workplace
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Retention guidance for people professionals
Practical advice on how people professionals can develop strategies to tackle turnover costs and retain a productive workforce
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Reports

Research and analysis by experts from CIPD and partner organisations

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Resourcing and talent planning report
Trend analysis and benchmarking data on recruitment, retention and talent management to inform HR and employers on practice considerations and decision-making
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People Profession 2030: a collective view of future trends
Drawing on collaborative research, our report explores the key trends influencing the future of work and how they will shape the people profession

Case studies

Learn from real world examples of how other people professionals and organisations work with the CIPD to approach key challenges and objectives.

18 Case studies about Talent management
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Championing diversity and representation in the workplace: ESAG
A case study on how ESAG strengthened its commitment to EDI and boosted female representation
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Being an effective employer: Bupa Arabia
A case study on how Bupa Arabia developed a range of strategic objectives to attract, develop and retain talent
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Solving an enduring national talent development puzzle: EIF
A case study on how the Emirates Institute of Finance (EIF) created a programme to support talent development and workforce nationalisation
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Championing disability inclusion: Longhurst Group
Case study on how the charitable housing association built a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion to become an employer of choice for those with protected characteristics
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Transforming resourcing to future-proof policing: North Yorkshire Police
Case study on how the force developed an agile, innovate approach to recruitment and assessments
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Building a Co-operative candidate experience: The Co-operative Group
Case study on supporting job candidates in building employability skills
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Valuing your talent: Coca-Cola
This case study provides insight into Coca-Cola Enterprises’ (CCE) data analytics journey. Given the complexity of the CCE operation, its global footprint and various business units, a team was needed to provide a centralised HR reporting and analytics service to the business. This led to the formation of a HR analytics team serving 8 countries. Read the full case study to find out how the HR analytics team were able to increase data maturity and improve business performance.
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Valuing your talent: Unilever
Unilever’s Senior Vice President of Leadership and Organisational Development, Leena Nair, describes their HR vision – People, Place, Performance – and how people measures are helping to secure the top talent, make Unilever the best place to work, and ensure their people are performing to their productive best.
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Valuing your talent: ArcelorMittal
The Head of Leadership Development at the world’s largest steel company, Brian Callaghan, describes how people measures and performance management systems are helping ArcelorMittal build their talent base.
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Valuing your talent: ASDA
The retailer’s people are at the heart of the organisation’s success and growth. Find out how the company’s HR strategy and operations are specifically tailored to reflect the individual needs of their employees
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Valuing your talent: Microsoft
Microsoft is a data-driven organisation that puts data-led decision making at the heart of its business strategy. Targeted gathering of their human capital data is enabling them to gain analytical insights and solve practical business problems across their organisation.
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Valuing your talent: Halfords
Halfords, a specialist retailer of leisure and car products, provides a useful current case study of effective human capital management reporting in action and demonstrates the importance between the successful alignment of business and HR strategy underpinned by clear HCM measures.
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Valuing your talent: London Councils
London Councils is a lobbying organisation working across political parties to promote the interests of London’s 32 borough councils and deliver services on behalf of the public. One of the ways London Councils provides support is through a professional HR Metrics and Workforce Planning network which helps London boroughs report on, explore and share people data to improve performance.
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Valuing your talent: Capgemini
Employing over 180,000 people across 40 countries, Capgemini relies on the expertise and skills of its workforce to deliver high organisational and financial performance. Faced with challenges such as siloed departments and reporting of often disconnected data, Capgemini sought to create a tool that would offer access to key human capital data and insights in one place.
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Valuing your talent: Xerox
CFO, Xavier Heiss, explains how the two business functions have worked together to increase the value of the services they provide through understanding the intangible value people bring to their customers, such as goodwill.
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Valuing your talent: Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation, Bath
This case study explores the application of recognition technology within a complex organisational environment, and offers insights from senior HR leadership as to how to best implement technology to drive up engagement
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Valuing your talent: Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Enterprise Rent-A-Car places a lot of importance on the gathering and interpreting of workforce data. We interviewed Leigh Lafever-Ayer, HR Director UK & Ireland at Enterprise Rent-A-Car to find out more about the data they collect, and how they use it.
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Valuing your talent: Case studies
Find out how other businesses are using people measures to improve their organisations through these case studies

Tools

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Talent management tools
Use our range of practical tools, including checklists and templates, to help you develop an effective talent management approach
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Resourcing and talent planning quiz
Assess your organisation’s resourcing and talent planning practices and get valuable insights
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Retention tools
Access our range of practical tools to help develop retention strategies within your organisation
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Thought leadership

Insight and foresight from our experts in people and the world of work

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The compensation revolution: Incentives to motivate and retain future talent
Matt Burney of Indeed outlines three potential drivers to shape how and why people work in future, and what these would mean for work-life balance and employee empowerment
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Upskilling and reskilling now to prepare for the post-pandemic economy
Lizzie Crowley discusses the importance of training and development of employees during the pandemic, and what the Government can be doing to support organisations through online courses
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Valuing your talent: Thought pieces
Discover expert opinion of how HR analytics and the reporting of human capital is changing the world of work

Podcasts

Listen to episodes from our podcast series on a range of topical workplace, HR and L&D issues.

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Is your employee value proposition fit for a new era of work?
Episode 179: From greater flexibility to better alignment with personal values, the pandemic has prompted many to reassess what they want out of their jobs. So, can employers tune-in to what employees really want and meet the demands of a post-pandemic workforce?
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Career pathing: the new path forward
A series of podcasts from CIPD and CEB which discuss the different types of career pathways

Evidence reviews

Evidence reviews enable you to ask the critical questions and use evidence for better decision-making.

Three Evidence reviews about Talent management
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Fair selection: An evidence review
Evidence-based insight and practical recommendations for ensuring fair selection in recruitment and promotion practices
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Retaining disadvantaged young people in work: An evidence review
Evidence-based insight and practical recommendations for creating jobs and inclusive workplaces where young people from marginalised backgrounds can thrive
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Recruiting young people facing disadvantage: An evidence review
Evidence-based insight and practical recommendations for reaching, attracting and selecting young people from marginalised backgrounds
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Bitesize research

Your regular overview of current research, inspiring insights and cutting-edge ideas in bitesize

11 Bitesize research about Talent management
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Using assessment centres effectively for candidate selection and development
Katie Stickland, CIPD Knowledge Exchange Manager, reviews research that examines the best approach for using assessment centres to assess candidates for recruitment or development
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Using redeployments to retain and strengthen knowledge
Research examines how organisations can use redeployments to properly manage and grow knowledge sharing across their business and wider networks
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Do we really understand what is ‘talent’?
Exploring the construct of ‘talent’ and subsequent talent management in an organisation
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Should they stay or should they go?
How to maximise the impact of your retention programmes by customising them to employee profiles
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What does automated talent management mean for the future of HR?
Technology has the potential to make the HR profession redundant, so it’s up to HR teams to assert their strategic role
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Why HR teams should include external contractors in their talent pools
The case for a holistic view on talent management
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Does it pay to demonstrate 'grit' at work?
Discover the pros and cons of grit
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Retaining women in STEM roles
Read the full findings of their research here
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Great expectations – the curse of top talent?
Take three steps to break the curse of top talent
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Turning around employee turnover
This article looks at how to achieve an optimum level of staff retention in a global professional services firm
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Transforming talent at AT&T
Read how AT&T created a new blueprint for sourcing future skills
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Learning

We offer a range of evidence-based courses tailored to suit you and your needs.
Our Essential Insights courses are free as part of CIPD membership.

Introduction to workforce planning (Development programme)

What is workforce planning in HR and how are workforce plans related to business and HR strategies? Boost your ability to respond to frequent changes by learning to use organisation design tools and techniques.

Strategic workforce planning programme (Development programme)

Set the scene for success by developing your workforce planning expertise and skills. This course teaches you to plan for future workforce needs and how to align people planning with business strategy.

Strategic workforce planning (Accredited programme)

Enhance your HR department’s impact and support commercial success by learning to plan and deliver effective workforce plans aligned with business strategy.

Recruitment and selection (Essential insights)

Why is recruitment and selection important? Get a high-level insight into the recruitment and selection process so your newfound knowledge can support your role.

Introduction to workforce planning (Development programme)

What is workforce planning in HR and how are workforce plans related to business and HR strategies? Boost your ability to respond to frequent changes by learning to use organisation design tools and techniques.

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