“I want to work with people who challenge my thinking, and bring new insights from research”


Talent & Potential’s talent and career solutions are based on collecting data about what successful people actually do.  We use this data to challenge assumptions and rethink the answers to difficult talent questions.  We provide a fresh look at what you can do to keep and grow your talented people.

Example research questions we’ve answered:

Career management
•    How do people with successful careers find their key jobs?
•    What are the practical tactics that fast-trackers use on a daily basis, that result in them being offered career opportunities?
•    Do people with fast-track careers really have a 5-year plan?
•    Is it true that you need to move organisations every 2-3 years to drive a fast-track career?

Graduate success
•    If we look at the graduates who go on to become highly successful in their organisations – what were they like at selection?
•    What behaviours were they showing during their graduate scheme, that built the foundation for later success?
•    What core attitudes underpin long-term graduate success, and how are they shaped?
•    How do you retain the most successful graduates?  What would cause them to leave?
•    How do the most successful graduates create career opportunities?

Potential
•    What are the common behaviours of people seen by senior managers globally, as ‘having potential’?
•    What leads people labelled as ‘high potential’ to crash and burn?
•    What is the nature of the shift between the role of senior manager and that of Director?

Read more about our research projects.