Organisations across the globe invest considerable resources, time and money in Talent Management to retain High Potentials (HIPOTs). These would highly capable, intelligent, and quick learning resources that we are speaking of. Would a hike in salary package, grade, or designation keep them motivated quite a while?
Imagine a goldfish inside a tank full of fighter fish. A formula1 car on any high-traffic road. Shoe polish just beside fruit racks in the retail outlet. How repulsive are these images? That's precisely how hipots will feel in case they have to work in an environment that does not suit their culture, aspirations, and capabilities. They may feel suffocated and what follows next is the hipot going in search of fresh air.
CAPABILITY MISMATCH:
Take into consideration a situation where your hipot has to report to a supervisor who's low on general intelligence. The manager would most probably spend more time concluding a brainstorming session. The hipot may see this extra time as waste and incapability of the manager. The hipot will not find enough motivation to sit through the future meetings with the manager or not look forward to gaining knowledge from the manager.
CULTURE MISMATCH:
Everyone knows that adults prefer not to be told. A hipot would hate being directed repeatedly, and they like to be challenged cognitively. They would prefer guidance only after trying out things on their own. An environment where the organisation or maybe the managers are less tolerant towards learning through experiments and failures will not likely support nurturing a talent pool. ‘Telling approach' is considered one indicator of an organisation that lacks a high-performance culture.
ASPIRATION MISMATCH:
Tenure-based promotion is a good enough reason to repel the talent pool from the organisation. All it takes in such a situation will be to manage somehow and stay put for the promotions to happen. A hipot might find doing work in such an environment insulting. Hipots anticipate to grow based on performance, effort and demonstrated capability.
Organisations can't expect hipots to wait patiently for their turn of promotion. The irony is that the organisations don't pay attention to their patience while recruiting them. The talent management strategy must be in line with the intent to nurture and retain the talent pool.
“At companies with very effective talent management, respondents are six times more likely than those with very ineffective talent management to report higher 'Total Returns to Shareholders' than competitors.”
“Only 5 per cent of respondents say their organizations' talent management has been very effective at improving company performance”.
Source - https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/winning-with-your-talent-management-strategy
ATTRACTING VS BUYING TALENT:
Does your organisation attracts talent or get it from the market? These generally are two different things. When your organisation is attracting talent, you may always have a talent surplus situation, no matter what the market condition is. When you are buying talent from the market, you may consider the following thoughts:
• Increased wages are not going to keep the hipot motivated all the way
• A Deputy Assistant VP grade cannot mean much for a longer duration
• If there is a mismatch between expectations and reality, the hipot may regress in performance after joining your organisation
• Recruiting hipots may cause interpersonal challenges as well as an increased amount of employee churn
Some pointers which can help in making informed decisions about attracting, recruiting, and retaining the talent pool:
• Define the DNA of hipots for your organisation
• Define the strategy to recruit hipots. You'll have to ensure they work with managers who can provide them with the right environment
• Conduct surveys to ascertain if your organisation's culture is conducive for nurturing the talent pool. Should there be shortcomings, including organisational culture and practices, address them through a robust learning architecture
• Make leaders accountable for talent management and review them regularly
• Define a career path for all roles in the organisation. Employees should enter, get promoted, and exit the organisation at the right time
• Make people development a default competency for managers and leaders. Organisations should give talent management competency enough weightage for making their promotions decisions
• Provide equal opportunity for all employees to learn and grow
• Make the promotion criteria objective and transparent
• It is certainly ok not to recruit hipots for your organisation, but this decision need to be based on talent pool bench-marking
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