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Thursday 5 August 2010

Talent management

We have a major press subject now in Egypt about one of the talented soccer players. The guy singed for two soccer clubs in the same time and he is not penalized and fined with a heavy fine because of this illegal act. Apparently from the sequence of the events they guy was sort of naive and he didn't have so much experience in dealing with this matters and his agent encouraged him to go that far under the temptation of the millions of dollars.
The two major football clubs in Egypt were disputing with each other about the rights of possessing the player.
I thought about this case and it has driven me to how we are dealing with our talented people.
The case was very clear example of the abuse of the talented people under the stupid and blind greed. The case was ended with ceasing the player from playing for 6 months and fining him with heavy fine. That means his talent will be frozen for at least one year since his skills will not be polished and he will not be productive in his peak of energy. 6 months are considered as years for the soccer player.
Any wise person can see clearly that we are killing our talents.
Talents are the real wealth of any nation. They are the real driving force for any sustained development. The nation has to cheer up when they find talent more than finding new gold mine or oil field. The talent is the real gold mine.
This spirit should be developed in any nation to encourage positive atmosphere of nursing and endorsing and developing these talents to the highest possible productive power.
If you want to measure the richness of any nation and their real and effective development index, you need to quantify their pool of talents and the percentage of the leadership position occupied by these talents.
Talent is the seed and it requires continuous endorsement and growing to be matured and developed.
The talent management is an integrated and comprehensive system and so many components should be connected together in full and complete context.
This management system starts with the talent exploring, identification and recognition. the earlier recognition, the better to develop and endorse and to grow and increase the life span of the productivity of each talent.
Talent is not restricted to certain domain, field or aspect. Each domain in the world could have its pool of talent like languages, arts, sports, science, education, inventions, discoveries, hobbies.
Any qualification and certification system for the talent should be totally fair and transparent and trust-able and reliable.
any bias in the system has to be addressed and removed immediately like race or religion or gender or nationality bias.
Bias is one of the talent damping and killers in any system and it causes a lot of talent wasting and losses and damping a lot of potentials in any society. It can convert the diversity from positive contributer to the prosperity of the society to negative wasting of the talents.
The worst could happen in any community is to depress, discourage and abuse the talents.
This could happen in the level of country, community, organization, business unit or family.
Each unit of these units could be positive environment for growing the talents or damping environment.
Some of these communities act like poisonous soil where they are killing the talents and if they didn't kill them they are dwarfing them and diluting them to average and undistinguished laymen.
What happens to these communities either loosing the talents internally or the brain drain of these talents or talent drain.
It is highly important for any successful system to distinguish the talents and let them stand out in the crowd.
The talent hunter is equally important and he should be rewarded and appreciated as well. They are the gold explorers.
The talent management system should be associated with powerful funding system to empower it and turn it to value and sustain its development without abusing it to the harmful way.
Labor laws should be legislated to protect, encourage and grow the talents.

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