Talent Plus Glossary
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ATS: An "Applicant Tracking System" is a software that provides an easy and automated method for managing candidates throughout the hiring process. An ATS helps candidates be “seen” while creating efficiency for the employer to spend time on candidates with the highest probability of being successful in the role, organization and industry.
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Career Investment Discussion (CID): A Career Investment Discussion is a tool that Talent Plus created for employees to highlight successes and explore development opportunities with their leader. Career Investment Discussions can be used in different contexts, like learning about a new team member, conducting a monthly check-in or career planning.
Collaborative Coaching®: Collaborative Coaching helps a leader and their direct report understand one another's most significant leadership talents, synergies and challenges, as well as agree upon ways in which they can best collaborate to create a more effective partnership.
CultureView®: CultureView is an employee survey that enables leadership to better understand morale, quality of engagement and service-orientation.
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Employee Engagement: Employee Engagement is a measurement of the emotional and intellectual investment employees make in the workplace.
Employee Retention: Employee Retention is the measure of a company’s ability to keep employees satisfied and prevent turnover. It’s a critical success metric because companies with higher retention levels tend to report increased employee satisfaction, and their teams are more likely to meet goals and deadlines.
Executive Coaching: Executive Coaching is a one-on-one customizable coaching model to help leaders develop their talents and skills by using a positive, strengths-based focus.
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Focus on You®: The Focus on You is a relationship extension activity that builds teamwork and enhances supportive relationships between employees and managers. It is positively designed to focus on successes, goals and interests.
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Interview Guide: The Talent Plus Interview Guide provides interview questions that help managers with what to listen for and focus on candidate responses. This aids recruiters in assessing a candidate's alignment for their team and culture.
ISO/IEC 27001 Certification: The ISO/IEC 27001 Certification adds a higher level of emphasis on protecting client data with public recognition from a widely recognized accreditation entity.
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Leadership Toolbox: Leadership Toolbox is a day-long session that equips leaders with tools to instantly engage employees and their teams. Leaders discover best practices for: development strategies, Career Investment Discussions, individual and team recognition, appreciative inquiry and strengths development.
Leadership 360°: Leadership 360° is an assessment that measures ten core competencies and 50 behaviors, and then gives leadership at all levels specific, directional guidance on behaviors and performance.
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Moral Authority: Moral Authority is the ability to influence people through the virtue of one’s character, the strength of one’s example, and the wisdom of one’s words.
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Peter Principle: The Peter Principle happens when people get promoted to their level of incompetence because their promotions are based on their performance in the current role, instead of on their potential to excel in the next role.
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Quality Selection Process® (QSP®): The Talent Plus Quality Selection Process is an effective solution that allows your organization to select top performing employees.
Quiet Quitting: Quiet Quitting is working fewer than the hours you’re paid for. Three basic signs of quiet quitting are withdrawal, apathy and negativity.
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REALSM Approach: The REAL Approach has four principles: Recognize, Engage, Accelerate and Lead. By following these principles, organizations can leverage the natural talents of their employees to make the greatest individual and organizational impact.
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Succession Planning: With a focus on the intersection of future potential and current performance, Talent Plus Succession Planning helps organizations predict who is ready to lead today and who should be on the radar for the future.
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Talent: Talent is a recurring pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that is consistent over time. Talent is a natural ability not acquired through effort, education or experience.
The Talent Card®: The Talent Card is a meaningful step in an individual's development and is automatically generated for individuals who complete a Talent Online ® Assessment (TOA ®) in TalentBank®. Each Talent Card highlights an individual's three strongest talents for a given role and provides a pathway to help them understand their potential and assist in leveraging these strengths.
Talent CategoriesSM: Also known as Interpretive Analysis Groupings, Talent Categories are groupings of themes. While themes across interviews and assessments may be different, Talent Categories are generally the same.
Talent Grid: A Talent Grid highlights the top strengths of the members of a team who have completed the same Talent Online® Assessment (TOA).
Talent Intensity Index® (TII): The Talent Intensity Index, or a Talent Graph, is a visual depiction of the potential an individual has to be successful in a role. The graph is fully interactive, revealing analysis and development strategies.
Talent Online® Assessment (TOA®): A Talent Online® Assessment (TOA ®) helps an organization select for job performance, knowledge, skills and experience as well as natural abilities and personal qualities.
Talent Planning: Talent Planning is evaluating the big picture of talent in an organization or team. It involves the planning processes of both anticipating the various staffing needs organizations will have in the future, as well as identifying developing talent and high-performing employees to fill those staffing needs when they arise.
Talent Themes: Talent Themes describe what we do, think and feel, and how we behave and react to different situations. They are the components of talent and help us describe them.
Talent-Based Organization®: A Talent-Based Organization leverages the natural talents of people to make the greatest individual and organizational impact.
Talent+Hire: Talent Plus' applicant tracking system (ATS), that allows organizations to source the best front-line candidates, direct applicant traffic flow and ensure candidates align with the company’s mission, vision and values.
Talent+ReadySM: Talent+Ready valuates for both talent and readiness so organizations can identify their future mid-level leaders and know when they're ready to lead.
TalentBank®: The TalentBank platform gives managers and employees real-time visibility and resources to select and develop the natural talent of their teams.
TalentMine®: TalentMine is a “fitness tracker” for employee growth and development, created to identify and develop strengths, and then collaborate to achieve goals.
Team Day: A Talent Plus Team Day aligns individual's talents, knowledge and skills to a team's unique goals.
TeamViewSM: TeamView is a team-wide survey followed by a facilitated discussion that helps leaders understand the dynamics of their team and identify opportunities for action.
The Science of Talent®: The Science of Talent is a rigorous process of identifying and predicting candidates with the potential for near perfect performance.