Talent is key to success of any organisation.as it gives an organisation a cutting edge to be competitive in the market.I understand the query in the context of identifying talent within the organisationFor identifying talent, we need to know what kind of talent we require. For this, you need to have fair understanding of business goals in precise terms for the present and for the future. After understanding them, you need to identify what are the specific abilities and skills that can add value to the core business.you need to zero in on specific attributes required for various tasks that contribute to business goals.For example, you are looking for singing talent for film songs, you need to identify what kind of knowledge of music,voice, tone and modulations suit film singing. Probably a singer of classical music may not suit for singing filmy songs.After identifying the core skills, you need to hunt for talent within.
One way is to gather feed back from the immediate supervisors about the various skills possessed by his team. However such feed back may be subjective. Care must be taken to confirm the validity of the feed back by other means which may include conducting some aptitude test for the employee to understand as to what kind of jobs for which they have natural flair for.Conducting talent spotting work shopss where employees can be given challenging situations and be asked to come out solutions. Then going through the records to identify who won rewards and recognition and for what and then keeping alist of them.The performance appraisal system gives lot of data about skills and abilities of the employees.
B.Saikumar