Talent Management Training and Consulting: Improve Performance

“You truly exceeded everyone’s expectations with your talent management training and consulting expertise.

I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed working with LSA on the design and delivery of our employee experience for new employees. I’ve been getting tons of positive unsolicited feedback.”
Steven Gray | US Enterprise Services | Microsoft

“Congratulations on your pro-activity in establishing this program and developing such an effective New Employee Orientation course.”
Farhat Ali | President and CEO | Fujitsu

“LSA has a very unique and powerful talent management training and consulting methodology.

LSA’s ability to overcome skepticism, obtain executive support, and create an aligned talent strategy that provides measurable business impact is second to none.”
Noelle Van Vlierbergen | Human Resources Director | AKQA

Anyone who has ever managed people will tell you that having the right people in the right job at the right time is a critical ingredient to success. They will also tell you that it can often be difficult to make Talent Management Training and Consulting approaches impact the business.

Done right, executives now know that Talent Management has an enormous impact on profitability, customer satisfaction, innovation, and new product development. In a recent survey, a group of CEO’s prioritized the consistent availability of high performers along with generating revenue and managing costs as their top concerns.

We agree. All three go hand in hand. And according to Fortune’s latest research, 82% of the World’s Most Admired Companies say talent is more important than technology to drive growth.

Why do so many companies continue to struggle to select talent, develop talent, and retain talent if it is so important financially and culturally?

While many experts talk about the lack of HR having a seat at the executive table as the fundamental problem, our experience tells us that the issues are much more basic.

Even fairly sophisticated companies continue to lack a consistent, systematic, and strategically focused approach to four key areas:

Employee Branding, Staffing, and Interviewing
New Employee Orientation and Assimilation
Career Development
Employee Engagement and Retention

Talent Management Training and Consulting That Improves Performance and Engagement

LSA uses a combination of proven talent selection, career development, new employee orientation, and talent retention solutions to help your company attract, select, develop, engage, and retain top talent that fits your unique strategy and culture.

Please select from one of the Talent Management Training and Consulting links below to learn more:

ATTRACT TOP TALENT
Employee Branding, Interviewing, and On-Boarding

Strategic Employee Branding, Staffing and Recruiting

Behavior Based Interviewing Training for Hiring Top Talent

High Stakes Leadership Simulation Hiring Assessments

New Employee Orientation On-boarding to Accelerate Speed to Productivity

ASSESS & DEVELOP TOP TALENT
Career Development and Progression

Training Needs Assessment

Leadership Simulation Assessments and Development Planning

People Manager Assessment Centers

Customized Training Programs

Career Development for Managers to Develop Top Talent

Career Development for Employees to Navigate Careers

Training Measurement

ENGAGE & RETAIN TOP TALENT
Employee Engagement and Retention

Employee Engagement Surveys

Leading for Employee Engagement for Managers

Retaining Top Talent for Managers

Retaining Top Talent for Individual Contributors

External Employee Exit Surveys

To speak with an LSA Expert to learn how our Talent Management Training and Consulting expertise has helped leading organizations across multiple industries succeed, please contact us.

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The quality of LSA’s Leadership Training Programs and facilitators is always top notch. We recognize and appreciate the hard work LSA always goes through to align to our unique culture and meet our specific requirements. Thank you for regularly going above and beyond. Your support and dedication, both on the strategic and tactical side, have been outstanding!

Anna Meyer
Leadership Development

I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed working with LSA on the design and delivery of the experiential new employee on-boarding training.

I’ve been getting tons of positive unsolicited feedback.

You truly exceeded everyone’s expectations.

Steven Gray
US Enterprise Services

LSA’s action-learning leadership approach has been very beneficial to me, our leadership team, and the entire organization.

The balance of development and results has been excellent.

We have made huge progress, and I was also able to identify 2-3 high potentials while having the extra benefit of people stepping up to carry key strategic projects forward.

The experience was better than anticipated. I could not be more pleased.

Heather Feltman
President & CEO

LSA Global has been a great partner in helping us move toward being “the leading developer of talent in the service performance management industry.”

I have engaged LSA to help develop best-in-class programs in the areas of: Executive On-boarding, Manager Training, Sales Training and Coaching, Employee Engagement, and Instructional Design.

They have consistently met or exceeded my (very) high expectations and are always responsive to my needs to increase performance, engagement, customer satisfaction, and sales growth.

Mike Normant
Senior Director, Training & Development

LSA has a very unique and powerful methodology regarding learning. Their ability to overcome skepticism, obtain executive support, and create an aligned learning strategy that provides measurable business impact is second to none.

They understand your goals, flex to your needs, and solve problems. They certainly help make my job easier and are a pleasure to work with.

I highly recommend LSA to anyone trying to connect the dots between strategy, skills, knowledge, and results.

Noelle Van Vlierbergen
Human Resources Director

We have found LSA to be highly responsive to meeting our unique needs in learning and development. Their passion for high levels of business relevancy, customer satisfaction, and quality align very closely with our core values and talent management strategy.

Kudos to LSA Global. They delivered exactly what I wanted under ever-changing conditions.

Laura McHugh
Director of Training and Organizational Development

We have had a very beneficial partnership with LSA. Their recent Leadership Development Program helped us to identify, develop, and retain top leaders. It was instrumental in helping take our company and our key people to the next level. I would recommend them to anyone looking to truly develop and retain top talent.

Steve Janowsky
Vice President of Operations

We turned to LSA Global to help take our behavioral interviewing process to the next level in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness. LSA quickly understood our unique culture and challenging requirements.

They immediately helped us to improve our ability to continue to hire top talent that fits our culture and talent management strategy as we rapidly scale. Thank you!

Julie Pearl
Technical Program Manager

Having a training outsourcing partner like LSA to support our talent management needs has been a real blessing. In an emerging company where typically you can’t afford the infrastructure necessary to provide a full range of offerings, having an external partner like LSA has been a blessing.

They deeply understand our business and our culture. They do a great job on a wide range of customized training, consulting, and coaching solutions for us.

For us, they are definitely better than having our own internal Training and Organizational Development function. They always do what it takes to hit the mark.

Chris Wells
Vice President, HR and IT

Thank you! Your learning strategy insights flipped our approach from a content-driven design to one where business strategy and relevancy drives the leadership programs we aimed to redesign.

This investment more than proved its worth – not only did it improve our leadership development program redesign, but it also was like a mini executive seminar that stretched our experienced L&D team’s thinking.

Richard Morse
Senior Director Talent Management

Congratulations on your pro-activity in establishing this program and developing such an effective New Employee Orientation course.

Farhat Ali
President and Chief Executive Office

The refreshing thing about LSA is that they focus on understanding our business situation and helping me succeed instead of selling stuff. Their experts are an invaluable resource that help me deliver higher quality results faster. I recommend them to anyone looking to improve the performance of their workforce.

Stacie Rodgers
VP of Human Resources

We have worked with LSA Global for our learning and development needs and have always had great success.

They helped us recently with targeted and customized Management Training Workshops to fit our unique situation, and they were fantastic.

I highly recommend LSA to anyone that is attempting to help take their leadership and management talent to the next level.

Mary Johnston
HR Manager, BU Radiology Informatics

We have partnered with LSA for years. Our organization’s learning needs have increased, decreased, and increased again over time.

The beauty of LSA’s business model is its flexibility and depth of their expertise.

When we need strategic or tactical outside help that we can trust, we use LSA knowing that we can depend on outstanding quality advice and targeted solutions every time. You cannot go wrong with LSA.

Margie Bunting
HR Manager

LSA’s ability to assess needs and develop targeted leadership training has been a critical resource for me to help our teams to perform at their peak.

I love that LSA focuses on training that truly makes a meaningful impact on the people and the business.

Noelle VanVlierbergen
Sr. HR Business Partner

FAQs

Talent management is the strategic process of attracting, hiring, developing, engaging, promoting, and retaining the people your organization needs to execute its short- and long-term business strategy. Effective talent management goes beyond filling positions — it ensures employees have the skills, motivation, and support to drive innovation, improve performance, and stay with the organization longer. Organizations with strong talent management practices consistently outperform competitors in growth, productivity, and employee engagement.

The best talent management strategies are measured by business outcomes, not just HR metrics. Look for improvements in hiring quality, employee engagement, leadership effectiveness, internal promotions, retention of top performers, productivity, customer satisfaction, and business performance. If your talent strategy is aligned with your culture and business goals, these indicators should measurably improve over time.

Many organizations focus heavily on recruiting while underinvesting in onboarding, developing, engaging, and retaining existing employees. Other common mistakes include using one-size-fits-all development programs, failing to align talent decisions with business strategy, overlooking manager capability, and measuring training participation instead of business impact. Successful organizations view talent management as an integrated system rather than a collection of disconnected HR initiatives.

High performers are more likely to stay when they understand how their work contributes to business success, receive meaningful coaching, have opportunities to develop new skills, and see a clear path for career growth. An effective talent management strategy equips managers to recognize potential, provide ongoing feedback, and create development experiences that increase both engagement and long-term retention.

Rather than offering generic talent programs, LSA Global aligns talent management with your unique business strategy, culture, and performance goals. Every engagement is customized to address your organization's specific challenges, helping leaders attract, develop, engage, and retain the talent needed to execute strategy and deliver measurable business results. The focus is always on improving both people outcomes and business outcomes.