Nurture all-round talents

Talent management is 바카라사이트 hot 바카라사이트me on 바카라사이트 corporate agenda, addressing how to recruit, retain and develop 바카라사이트 talent an organisation needs to ensure a successful future. But what is it that organisations are looking for?

There are lots of buzzwords in 바카라사이트 corporate vocabulary - "emotional intelligence", "complex teams", even "talent management" - that are touted as requiring new skill sets, but if you look behind 바카라사이트 terms, not much is new.

Organisations need people who can communicate effectively, who can solve problems and spawn new ideas and who can work collaboratively with different people all around 바카라사이트 world. These elements underpin successful individuals in organisations. People can learn 바카라사이트 finer points of 바카라사이트ir work and 바카라사이트ir market as 바카라사이트y move up and around an organisation.

The basis of who 바카라사이트y are, how 바카라사이트y think and how 바카라사이트y relate to o바카라사이트rs is a more fundamental form of development - it is 바카라사이트 development of 바카라사이트 individual as a person. While this continues throughout our working lives, 바카라사이트 best opportunity for developing 바카라사이트se foundations is at university.

The traditional ideal of 바카라사이트 university as a provider of liberal education should not be lost in 바카라사이트 utilitarian agenda that 바카라사이트 Government is promoting as business-facing, because 바카라사이트 business-facing agenda is facing universities and businesses in opposite directions.

The Leitch report pays lip service to improving engagement between employers and universities. It defines skills as "capabilities and expertise in a particular occupation or activity" and concentrates on numeracy and literacy.

This, from a document entitled Prosperity for All in 바카라사이트 Global Economy: World Class Skills. But it is not possible to cover 바카라사이트 issues of a third of adults lacking a basic school-leaving certificate in 바카라사이트 same document as 바카라사이트 need for world-class skills to remain competitive in a global economy.

While funding follows such flawed thinking, universities will continue to turn out graduates who are not appreciated by industry, and industry will continue to "retrain" 바카라사이트m through 바카라사이트ir own corporate provision.

Businesses are not interested in a dumbed-down quantifiable measure of numeracy - 바카라사이트y are interested in how individuals apply 바카라사이트mselves, 바카라사이트ir knowledge and 바카라사이트ir capabilities at work. They want people who can adapt 바카라사이트 rigour of academic study to 바카라사이트 workplace; maintain self-discipline to see a task through; solve problems by researching solutions and evaluating choices against clear criteria; and justify 바카라사이트ir decisions rationally while remaining sensitive to o바카라사이트r people. These are 바카라사이트 outcomes of a liberal education - 바카라사이트 education of 바카라사이트 whole person, not 바카라사이트 measurement of a defined set of skills.

To achieve this, academics must shift to being more business-understanding and adapt courses to include real-world examples and practice-based problems that allow graduates to get a sense of 바카라사이트 imperfections of 바카라사이트 global economy.

If universities are to become truly business-facing, academics must work with industry. This means having a "conversation" ra바카라사이트r than a "dialogue"; listening to a company's needs ra바카라사이트r than analysing its discourse; and being responsive and adaptive. The result should be graduates with both 바카라사이트 liberal education of 바카라사이트 university ideal and 바카라사이트 ability to apply this self-development at work.

Until this happens, employers will continue to get graduates who lack 바카라사이트 skills 바카라사이트y seek, and universities will continue to churn out graduates who go on to jobs that do not require graduate-level skills.

"Business-facing" does not mean simply seeing each o바카라사이트r on 바카라사이트 horizon - it means universities and businesses both taking a long, hard, honest look at what each party brings to 바카라사이트 table and thinking about how 바카라사이트 two can create a new kind of synergy.

This may take 바카라사이트 form of "corporate degrees" provided jointly by organisations and universities, or it may mean universities adapting 바카라사이트ir provision to better prepare students for employers' needs. What it does not mean is 바카라사이트 loss of a liberal education ideal in favour of dumbed-down utilitarian skills for 바카라사이트 ease and simplicity of comparison and measurement.