Managing talent and planning careers on-line

TalentCompass extends the value of TPMG’s orbitPLUS tool by supporting active career and talent management processes. It is simultaneously a tool for individuals to plan their career and for organizations to visualise their own talent and potential.

orbitPLUS’s TalentCompass is TPMG’s tool to help individuals chart and manage their own career and development alongside conversations with their line manager or mentor.

It opens up opportunities in the organization by informing the individual about other roles and enables the individual to compare their own skills profile with the requirements of target roles.

For the organization and the HR function TalentCompass simultaneously gathers information about people, their talents, experience and potential as key inputs to building talent pools and succession plans.

TalentCompass can be configured to suit each client’s needs. It offers:

• Career Review documents which support and inform conversations between the manager and the individual
• Career Development Plans with which the individual can plan their progression from where they are now to their target role, using on-line access to the client’s learning and development resources
• integration with other key information about people from orbitPLUS on-line appraisal and 360 degree feedback modules
• reporting tools for HR to
  • identify talent pools of people who have the potential to fill specific roles
  • find who most closely matches the skills profile of particular roles
  • monitor individuals’ potential, career expectations and readiness for progression
  • inform business managers about the talent and potential inside their own organization to support assignments, development programmes and internal mobility.

Career Review is a document that typically is initiated by a line manager and guides a conversation about the individual’s potential and future direction. It includes information such as:

• last appraisal rating
• willingness to relocate
• summary of performance in current role
• experience to date
• personal strengths and achievements
• development areas
• career expectations and interests
• competency profile
• future roles (viewed and selected from a directory of roles)
• readiness for the new role
• potential rating
• other discussion points between the individual and the line manager/mentor

The document supports real time comparisons of both the individual’s skills profile with a target role (person:role) and a comparison of their current role with that target role (role:role).
Once captured this information provides invaluable insights into the organization’s talent, its aspirations, performance and potential.

Career Development Plan
Following the Career Review discussion and the selection of a preferred target role, the individual creates a Career Development Plan to guide their progression to equip them for such a role.

This form displays the individual’s skill profile vs the current and target role and provides a framework to identify for each skill area the relevant development need, action and progress. It also allows access to the client’s Training Directory to allow selection of given courses or activities.

The information from the Career Development Plan is then available for the Learning & Development function to plan and monitor their overall development programmes.

Role Profiles and Succession Lists
TalentCompass assembles the skills profiles for all individual users and compares them with each role profile. It displays this information both for existing role holders and for others whose profile suggests their potential suitability.

Similarly, TalentCompass provides matches for any selection of skills or competencies (weighted or unweighted), enabling the HR user to view the best matching top 5, 10, 20, 50 or all personal profiles, as required.

Performance and Potential matrix
Talent Compass automatically groups individuals according to both their Performance and Potential ratings. The target group may be the whole population or selected e.g. by Department. The number of individuals in each cell of the matrix is displayed. A pop up window shows the names in each cell, each linked to the relevant career reviews.