What is your bench strength?
The key to sustained competitive advantage in any industry is not size, image, or technology – it’s talent. And the future of your integration company depends on its ability to identify, retain, and prepare a strong talent bench.
Bench strength refers to the depth and level of leadership readiness among talent at an organization. Having a strong talent bench means having a high number of internal candidates who are prepared to step into critical leadership roles at any time.
Why is this important? Leadership development at every level of the organization helps ward off the costly impacts of turnover and ensures a critical mass of employees have the future-ready skill sets required to continuously drive business performance.
Bench Strength offers a step-by-step approach to building a powerful talent strategy that will ensure the perpetual availability of potential leaders. Barner leads you through important decisions about talent focus, including:
- Should your talent strategy be focused primarily on developing leadership from within, or on acquiring “ready-made’ leaders from other organizations?
- Should you concentrate development efforts on a few high-potential individuals, or spread resources across a broader section of your overall leadership bench?
- Should you identify successor candidates for specific leadership positions, or retain pools of potential leaders who may be qualified for any of a number of leadership positions as they become available?
If you are looking for a comprehensive, practical approach with specific action steps for making smart talent decisions to build a deep and versatile team – for today and for the future – this is the book for you!
