Offers students an opportunity to obtain the insights, frameworks, and tools to effectively manage and develop talent in teams and organizations. Also explores promotion and cross-functional systems that strengthen the organization as well as retention strategies to promote and reward high-quality talent. Managing and developing talent is one of the top three issues on the minds of CEOs from around the world. In fact, CEOs cite managing and developing their leadership talent as the issue that is most important to the future success of their business but that their organizations are least capable of addressing effectively. Offers students an opportunity to engage in various activities intended to illustrate and practice the skills involved in implementing talent management systems.

Effective Talent Management & Development
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Effective Talent Management & Development

Instructor: Dr. Curtis Odom
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Skills you'll gain
- Talent Management
- Virtual Teams
- Talent Pipelining
- Human Resources Management and Planning
- Stakeholder Management
- Leadership Development
- Workforce Planning
- Team Management
- Workforce Development
- Training and Development
- Organizational Strategy
- Management Training And Development
- Decision Making
- Gap Analysis
- Human Resource Strategy
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Human Capital
- People Management
- People Development
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Reviewed on Sep 22, 2025
This was the best course I've taken on Coursera thus far! Great content & very well presented. High applicability to my job with concrete ideas that I can implement.
Reviewed on Nov 7, 2025
Fantastic course, short clip, good exam, basic understanding. If you start your talent management career. It's a great course to initiate and kick off.

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