Talent Valuation Accelerate Market Capitalization through Your Most Important Asset

by McGuire, Thomas; Brenner, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780134009681
• ISBN10: 0134009681
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-20
• Publisher: Ft Pr

Summary

Master the first comprehensive, credible framework for measuring HR's value and the quality of its talent acquisition/management efforts! Reflecting their immense experience leading talent management and consulting on enterprise talent strategy, Linda Brenner and Tom McGuire introduce a powerful new metric: the Intellectual Capital Index (ICI). Built on extensive financial analysis of Fortune® 500 companies, ICI helps you rigorously identify specific areas of intellectual capital that drive the most value in your company, and refocus HR accordingly. Using it, you can:

• More effectively quantify the return on your human capital investments
• Measure the quality and value of your most important talent
• Gain a deeper understanding of the drivers of value in their organization
• Recognize the drivers of intellectual capital within their companies
• Measure and improve talent quality: your most important talent metric

Brenner and McGuire help you finally overcome long-time controversies and obstacles to valuing talent. Using accepted financial techniques, you'll walk through:

• Identifying which people and roles are producing disproportionate value
• Determining the true asset of value of talent you don't "own"
• Gaining deeper insight into the "active" and "inert" components of intellectual capital
• Organizing structures and business processes to activate your talent and liberate latent value
• Choosing and applying the most effective talent metrics
• Refocusing HR on the talent issues, skills, and competencies that matter most

Talent Valuation offers indispensable tools and insights for C-level executives, HR leaders, strategists, investors, analysts, researchers, students – and anyone concerned with measuring, optimizing, and communicating the business value of talent.

Author Biography

Linda Brenner (Atlanta, GA) is Managing Director and Founder of Designs on Talent, a firm that has spent over a decade helping businesses improve the way they hire talent, retain talent, and identify emerging leaders. Her clients include Chick-fil-a, L'Oreal, Turner Broadcasting, LinkedIn, Cox, and Coca-Cola. A well-known thought leader and presenter in the talent space, she started Skillsify, Inc. in 2011 to provide web-based training and development tools. Before launching her own companies, she served in talent acquisition and management leadership roles for great companies like Gap, Pepsi, and Home Depot (where she led enterprise-wide succession planning, 360°, and career management). She recently published The Brave New World of Talent Management in The Financial Manager Magazine.

 

Tom McGuire (Atlanta, GA), Talent Strategy Lead at Designs on Talent, specializes in talent strategy, executive coaching and talent acquisition. He has 30+ years of business experience following his first job as a Peace Corps volunteer in Central America. McGuire "grew up" in finance, working for Coopers and Lybrand and then the Coca-Cola Company, where he led finance in Coke's German division after the fall of the Berlin Wall. From 1997 to 1999, he led talent acquisition at Coca-Cola. Later, after serving as Revlon's CFO and as President of Revlon International, he rejoined Coca-Cola as Group Director, Global Talent Acquisition.

Table of Contents

1. What If the Beatles Had Been a Company?

2. Is Your Most Important Asset Really An Asset?

3. Company Valuations and Intellectual Capital

4. Active and Inert Components of Intellectual Capital

5. Organizing and Activating Talent as Human Capital

6. Most Important Talent Metrics

7. Quality: Why and What Does It Mean?

8. Looking Back and Looking Forward

9. Who is Responsible and What Do We Do with HR?

 

Accurately and credibly measure the business value of talent -- and pinpoint HR's best opportunities to drive more value from talent acquisition and management