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Talent Development
Talent development is more critical than ever in today’s ever-shifting landscape. Invest in talent now to position your organization to succeed — no matter what the future brings.
Our Solutions for Your Talent Development Programs
Increase the capacity, reach, and impact of your in-house talent development programs and initiatives with our proven leadership training content.
Choose the scale that’s right for your organization — from single-topic, one-day workshop kits or a scalable foundational conversation skills training, all the way up to CCL Passport™, a comprehensive library of robust talent development content to support leaders at all levels.
With a combination of leadership analytics, talent diagnostics, 360 assessments, and other instruments, our custom talent development solutions take a deep dive into your people, culture, business priorities, and engagement levels — so you can make strategic investments to secure your organization’s future and retain your top leaders.
Partner with our experts to identify and develop the competencies your organization needs most.
Executive leadership coaching is a key tool in the talent development arsenal. It creates self-awareness, helps drive lasting transformational change, and provides critical challenge and support.
Personalize talent development for your executives by partnering with us for a coaching engagement with our world-class executive coaches, available as a standalone service or as an element of our core leadership programs.
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Why Experience Is Central to Talent Development
As important as formal coursework and training are, research finds that the most effective organizational talent development programs put experience at the center of the learning process. When working and learning are bound together, talent development is more effective and helps you attract, engage, motivate, and retain employees.
We can partner with your organization to ensure your succession planning and talent development programs take a systemic approach by crafting a leadership development architecture that cascades both formal learning and on-the-job experiences. This ensures your leaders are ready and effective, both now and in the future.
Go Deeper on Talent Development
Supporting talent development is more critical than ever in today’s evolving landscape of instability and disruption. Learn the top talent development challenges we hear most often from our clients and recommendations to overcome them: Download our Talent Development Challenge & Solution Report.
Why Choose CCL as Your Talent Development Partner?
At CCL, we’ve shaped the leadership development industry for nearly 6 decades through pioneering research and evidence-based innovation. We’re proud of our extensive expertise and experience serving organizations seeking talent development strategies and solutions.
As trusted architects of transformation, we partner globally with clients — from nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies — to help them tackle the challenge of developing talent. You get:
- Evidence-based solutions, based on over 50 years of research and decades of experience in talent development
- Collaboration with best-in-class experts, co-creating leadership development with you
- Customized white-glove services tailored to your organization’s needs and drawing insights from one of the largest leadership research databases in the world
- Transformational, personalized programs and coaching that’s centered on your leaders’ individual strengths, skills, and real-world challenges
- Access to scalable learning experiences that foster new ways of thinking, expand capacity, and drive sustainable growth
- Partnership with a premium global provider and mission-driven organization invested in advancing the practice of leadership worldwide
- Assurance that your investment supports the positive ripple effect that leadership has on individuals, teams, organizations, and society
Our approach goes beyond skill-building — we help leaders deepen self-awareness, step into their potential, and move from insight to action. With CCL as your talent development partner, you gain evidence-based, purpose-driven leadership development that delivers meaningful, lasting impact for your organization.
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How to Make the Most of a Talent Development Program
When learning from experience is embedded in the culture, the gap between doing the work and developing others shrinks. Learning isn’t added on — it’s just what everyone does. Talent development programs like this require a shift in your organization’s mindset and culture, along with changes in strategy, process, and roles.
Not sure where to start? Our talent development solutions experts can help you pinpoint the critical leadership competencies needed to achieve success in your organization’s unique culture — and show you how to ensure your talent development initiatives unlock the power of experience to make it happen.
Get More From Your Talent Development Initiatives
Whether you’re looking for a customized, top-to-bottom solution to uplift and transform your entire organization, or targeted talent development programs for key leaders in the pipeline, we offer a variety of research-based talent development solutions for every budget, available both virtually and in-person.
Our holistic approach examines your organization’s unique context to help you develop leaders at all levels.
What Our Clients Are Saying
As a top-ranked provider of leadership development, we’ve shaped the industry for more than 50 years and are trusted globally to design and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Clients around the world — including 2/3 of the Fortune 1000 — have partnered with us for talent development strategies, driving remarkable transformations at their organizations.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
Let’s Talk About Your Organization’s Talent Development Programs
Our experts are here to help. Get in touch us about your needs and how we can support your organization’s talent development approach and strategy.
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Talent Development: Research & Resources
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Watch this webinar to discover how increasing adaptability and key competencies can build collective leadership capability at your organization, helping to close the leadership gap to strengthen your talent pipeline.
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Discover how vertical development opens the door to deeper understanding, greater clarity, and multiple right answers — especially necessary for senior leaders balancing complexity and competing priorities.
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This series of 4 research reports shows how future-focused succession planning drives stronger organizational cultures, smarter innovation, and leadership that thrives for generations.
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Talent development is more critical than ever in today’s evolving landscape of instability and disruptions. Learn top challenges and our recommendations to overcome them.
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Help managers hold more effective talent conversations and give more constructive feedback, and you’ll greatly improve your talent development processes.
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On-the-job experience is the number one way people learn and grow, accounting for more than 50% of learning. Here’s how talent leaders can maximize that learning to develop leaders.
Frequently Asked Questions About Talent Development
What is talent development?
At the Center of Creative Leadership, we focus on experience-driven talent development, which is when on-the-job experience is carefully designed and executed to become the core driver of learning and development in an organization. Talent development strategies can be aligned with the business strategy and organizational culture to create a leadership learning journey that can cascade both formal learning and on-the-job experiences throughout the entire organization.
Why is talent development beneficial for your organization?
Talent development is beneficial for organizations because it builds a pipeline of future leaders who are agile, resilient, and future-ready. Talent development initiatives also increase engagement and retention of top talent, increase self-awareness and effectiveness, strengthen fundamental leadership skills, and create a stronger organizational culture. Learn how managers can take responsibility for their role in talent development with this checklist for developing employees.
What are the main goals of a talent development program?
Our talent development program solutions assess your organization’s unique context and help you unlock the power of learning from experience. Additionally, we ensure that your program takes a systematic approach to learning by working with HR leaders to create a leadership architecture that trickles down from formal learning to on-site experiences throughout the organization.
How do you develop a talent development program?
If you want to develop a talent development program within your organization, but you’re not sure where to start, our experts can help. We’ll help you pinpoint the critical leadership competencies needed to achieve success, given your unique culture and challenges, and show you how to ensure your initiatives unlock the power of learning from experience. An experience-driven talent development program requires a shift in your organization’s mindset and culture — and we can help.
What is the difference between talent development and training?
According to our widely recognized 70-20-10 framework, while professional training and formal coursework are important, they only account for about 10% of overall learning, while typically about 70% comes from on-the-job experiences and challenges, and 20% comes from other people. That’s why the most effective organizational talent development programs put experience at the center of the development process, and leverage traditional training and coursework to hone skills as needed. Overall, experience-driven learning serves as the core of talent development.
What is a talent development strategy?
Your organization’s talent development strategy can focus on a number of priorities, including supporting and retaining top talent, increasing self-awareness, strengthening fundamental leadership skills, improving collaboration, or creating a stronger organizational culture. The key is to align your talent development strategies with your business strategy and goals.
More questions? Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation!
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