TM - March 2008 - (Page 52) application by Ty Burton Sunbelt Rentals: A Mid-Level View of HR From the Trenches HR pundits often talk about talent management at a very high level — a highly conceptualized strategy rather than a practice. While these discussions are important, they provide little value to HR practitioners working in the trenches to produce and execute a talent management framework within their respective organizations. What many HR professionals need is a view of the tactical side of talent management from a mid-level perspective. Such was the case at equipment supplier Sunbelt Rentals. Ten years ago, Sunbelt was a small, $60 million operation. Today, with the recent acquisition of one of its top competitors, Sunbelt is a $1.5 billion company with more than 450 locations. Not only is the company experiencing growth through merger and acquisition activity, it’s enjoying organic development as well. This introduced a new set of challenges and opportunities. Talent managers now had to manage issues they hadn’t focused on in the past — specifically, engineering a cohesive effort throughout the company to cultivate and develop talent. Sunbelt’s leadership team realized failure to grow, develop and manage talent in an integrated fashion meant the organization could potentially lose tens of millions of dollars each year in unnecessary recruitment and termination costs, not to mention lost productivity. Thus, the key priorities for talent management at Sunbelt became to design programs to attract, develop and retain talent across the organization; enhance management and employee capability through training; and increase internal bench strength for key positions. First Things First 52 March 2008 Initially Sunbelt’s talent managers had to ask talent management magazine www.TalentMgt.com http://www.TalentMgt.com
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