Your workforce careers strategy
Transform your workforce through skills-based talent practices
The pandemic has transformed the way we work. It has also challenged many companies when it comes to retaining staff. Your organisation needs a talent management strategy that can help you make the most of this new evolving, and increasingly global workforce.
Looking beyond jobs to skills can revolutionise your workforce planning. Mercer can help with reskilling/upskilling, performance management, your internal talent marketplace, succession planning, pay, and talent acquisition.
With transformation an everyday reality, the opportunities around skills-based talent practices are unprecedented. Without accelerating progress on their skills agenda, organisations won’t have the talent to take advantage of emerging talent. Leading companies are re-inventing their talent and reward programs around skills and Mercer can show you how.
Reinventing skills-based talent management
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How Mercer’s skills-based talent
We offer:
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Strategic workforce planningWe can help you audit your internal and external supply of talent and use our skills research data to provide enhanced insights and redefine your talent and skills pools where necessary.
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ReskillingWe can help you conduct rapid reskilling, targeted by robust assessment capability, without laborious current state analysis.
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Skills assessmentMeasure skills and capabilities objectively for talent acquisition, development, succession, or a broader people strategy, based on your skill framework.
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Pay-for-skillsInvest in future skills and reinvent pay programs with AI-driven pay decisions based on skill demand, supply, and criticality.
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Performance managementKnow that agile environments require rapid, multi-sourced performance feedback and assessment, so skill proficiency and development activities are even more critical.
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Career development/pathingEnable employees’ ownership of their careers through skill mapping and adjacencies, which shine a light on actionable career paths.
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Succession planningEnsure succession pools are informed by individual skills to expand potential talent pipelines and avoid job structures that may limit diversity.
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Internal talent marketplaceDeploy talent to gigs, projects, and experiences based on skills supply and demand, promoting internal mobility, and diversity of thinking and experiences across the organisation.
Why your organisation needs our skills-based talent practices
Mercer has the expertise to drive your skills-based talent management strategy.
- Do you struggle to identify current bench strength and skills gaps to inform skills-based hiring?
- Are you working to restructure jobs around automation?
- Do you need earning and development investments aligned with skills-based talent management?
- Are you wanting to offer flexible careers across the organisation?
Mercer can help – contact us using the form below.
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Meet the team
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Lisa Lyons
Workforce Transformation Partner UK, Mercer
Lisa is the Workforce Transformation Practice Leader for Mercer UK. She has over 14 years of management consulting experience. Lisa specialises in the areas of skills strategy, HR Transformation, strategic talent management and change management.
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Maura Jarvis
Transformation Leader UK, Mercer
Maura has over 25 years of experience in Corporate and HR Consulting across a range of sectors including pharmaceutical, energy, education, financial services and mining. Maura specialises in the future of work, leading projects to assist clients in transforming their people strategy to support business transformation.