Workforce and Talent Development

ODC 6435 offers students an opportunity to explore foundational concepts and a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of strategic talent and workforce development in organizational, local, national, and global settings. Students will learn about key conceptual models (e.g., talent life-cycle, leadership pipeline, high-potential classification and role segmentation frameworks), processes and tools used for assessing and developing talent (e.g., talent reviews and brokering, multi-trait multi-method assessment frameworks, and the 70/20/10 model of development). Additionally, the two forms of workforce development: place-based strategies that attempt to address the needs of people living in a particular region and sector-based strategies that focus on matching workers’ skills to needs in an industry already present in the region will be addressed.