Just as organisations put in efforts to attract and retain talents, in the same vein, employees respond by sustaining their relevance through their commitment and productivity.
Human resources are better positioned to understand the significance of talent engagement seeing the amount of business success it guarantees.
It is true that when employees are engaged they tend to be more innovative, productive and committed to organisational goals. While talent management identifies, develops, engages, retains, and deploys organisations workforce to achieve strategic objectives, in order to maximise both individual and corporate performance, talent management activities seek to attract, develop, engage, retain, and deploy talents to accomplish organisational goals.
Talent Engagement Activities
Activities carried out by organisations to engage talents include these: professional development; employee feedback; rewards and recognition; team-building exercises; wellness initiatives; flexibility; career milestones; and autonomy.Talent engagement activities provide opportunities for organisations to acknowledge and reward outstanding performance; train, mentor, offer growth opportunities to talents that are deserving; support and promote mental wellbeing of employees; create clear channel for communication between managers and subordinates; support employee assistance programs; organised social events; create room for employees to contribute to significant decision making process; celebrate years of service, career milestones; and offer flexible work arrangements. Research shows that talent engagement activities enhances innovation among employees; it improves retention rate, as 87 per cent of employees are less likely to leave; it enhances the level of productivity, and foster superior customer experiences.
Today’s competitive market environment has called for organisations to recognise the significance of talent engagement activities, not just talent management activities in enforcing success. Talent engagement activities are designed to help organisations align to business objectives, at the same time solidifying the bond between members of the team in an organisation. This contribute to high-performing workforce ready to gain a competitive edge, while prioritising productivity. The activities carried out make employees feel valued.
This is very crucial – giving employees a sense of value. The knowledge employees have on their worth propels them to be committed to the growth of the organisation by bring productive and innovative. And this is one of the ways organisations optimse their workforce potential.
The bottom line is that these activities provide a positive work environment, where employees are encouraged, valued, appreciated, and invested in what the company wants. When organisations realise that their most valuable assets are their employees, they provide opportunities for growth and development; job satisfaction, and overall wellbeing. Reduced turnover costs, improved customer satisfaction naturally accompanies these actions.
Lastly, by putting efforts as an organisation into talent engagement activities, a certain level of commitment to employees success, collaboration, trust, and transparency is seen. And the outcome is long-term benefits in terms of improved business performance, sustained growth, unlocking of full workforce potential, and achievement of strategic objectives and organisational goals.
