Speaker: Mike Rugg-Gunn, Chartered Occupational Psychologist

Summary:

Why did I author this book?

On a practical level, several years ago, I was conducting an assessment for a CEO candidate for a pureplay digital business. I recognised that those key leadership behaviours that I had habitually measured needed a significant upgrade to ensure that they were relevant for the digital world. This caused me to reflect to what extent the Talent Management community had both fully understood and embraced digitization. This is because the impact of the digital revolution will swamp them like a tsunami unless they are fully prepared, ready, and excited to meet the challenges to their business that this transformation will yield.

On a more conceptual level, there are any number of books about Talent Management and even more about the Digital Revolution but very few, if any, that discuss the impact of the latter on the former. My book aims to do this. In short, I had something to say that was not out there in the Talent Management community.

So, what is the book about?

Recruiting, selecting, retaining, and developing great people are essential for any successful business. And the combination of digital transformation and post pandemic work realities present major challenges for all organisations. This book provides best practice talent management guidance for businesses undertaking digital transformation or facing digital disruption.

Taking the leaders through the stages of talent acquisition, selection, retention and development, this practical and concise book:

• Sets out, assesses and predicts how the digital revolution impacts talent management practices, and helps the reader navigate the journey from an analogue to a digital organisation.
• Updates talent management concepts and illustrates these with examples and cases of best practice across the business world.
• Enables senior leaders, talent management professionals and managers to quickly access and implement key learnings using practitioner point summaries and a set of Ten Top Tips in each chapter.

The book provides practical insights, grounded in research, into how to manage talent in a fluid and dynamic world of digital change and is aimed at senior leaders and managers, and the HR community. It clearly shows how organisations undertaking a digital journey need to flex and adapt their talent management processes.

Biog:

I am a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. I have been working in selection and assessment for a number of consultancies for most of this century. Most recently, I have run my own business focused on private equity funds in the pre and post deal assessment of portfolio company senior leaders and their teams. Prior to that, I held a senior management position for a brewing company and worked as a government scientist for the Ministry of Defence.

I have a BSc (Hons) Psychology degree from Birkbeck, University of London, MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology and a Professional Doctorate in Occupational Psychology both from the University of East London. I am an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.