Talent management evaluation that checks the decisions

Talent management evaluation is checking whether your talent processes put the right people into the right roles, and what that was worth. It covers the decisions, meaning who was chosen and why, the outcomes, such as moves and retention, and the cost. It sits inside your wider talent mobility planning.

Measure the decisions and the outcomes separately. For decisions: how each person was assessed, and against what standard. For outcomes: early leavers among new hires, critical roles filled internally, regretted leavers among the people you developed, and internal fill cost against external hire cost. For a high potential program, start with how the list was built.

Look for independent evidence that the assessment predicts performance, not only the vendor’s own figures. Wave, the science behind our assessments, scored 27 out of 30 in the British Psychological Society’s independent review across six technical areas. Ask every vendor for their equivalent.

We provide the evidence at the point of decision: who was assessed, against what standard, and why each person was chosen. Your HR system holds what happened next. Read together, the two show whether the program chose well.

A completion can be read for a talent decision where that use was part of what the assessment was set up to do. If it was a hiring assessment for a single role, plan on a fresh one. Talk to us about what you already hold.