If your organisation is losing key people, struggling to build a leadership pipeline, or running performance reviews that change nothing, this course gives your managers a repeatable framework to fix it. Rather than treating talent as something HR alone manages, it puts a shared language and a clear process in the hands of every line manager who hires, develops and retains people. Book it as a closed group for your team and request a quote or a 15-minute callback below.

Talent Management Training: What Your Team Will Learn

This talent management training takes delegates through the full talent lifecycle, from defining what talent means in your business to keeping your best performers from walking out the door. It is built around four stages of talent management, assessment, recruitment, development and alignment, so that the skills your people build map directly to your organisational objectives.

Too often, businesses run these stages in isolation: recruitment hires, L&D trains, and managers conduct reviews, with no single thread connecting them. This workshop joins them up. Delegates learn to assess the talent they already have, recruit deliberately against the gaps, develop people against a plan rather than ad hoc, and align every effort to where the business is heading.

The course frames talent through four recognisable archetypes, helping managers spot and deploy each one:

• Innovators, the problem-solvers who improve how work gets done
• Visionaries, those who drive progress and set direction
• Practical implementers, the people who get things finished and delivered
• Communicators and empathic leaders, those who build relationships and engagement

Recognising these archetypes helps managers stop measuring everyone against a single template. A strong implementer and a strong visionary contribute in very different ways, and a balanced team usually needs all four. By the end of the workshop, your managers will be able to identify talent within their teams, run meaningful performance and talent reviews, plan for succession, engage a multi-generational workforce, and apply retention strategies grounded in real motivation theory.

Key Outcomes for Your Business

When you train a group of managers together, the practical return shows up in everyday people decisions. After the workshop your team should be able to:

• Build a simple, repeatable talent strategy aligned to business goals
• Run performance and talent reviews that lead to action, not paperwork
• Identify successors and reduce key-person risk before someone resigns
• Engage staff across generations with the right mix of motivators
• Apply retention tactics early, before a counter-offer is the only option

These are capabilities your managers keep and reuse long after the training day ends.

Course Outline (12 Modules)

The Talent Management Course is delivered over one day and covers twelve practical components, each reinforced with case studies:

1. Introduction and Workshop Objectives, setting the scene and defining outcomes for the day
2. Defining Talent, what talent management is, the types of talent, and the skills and knowledge that matter (with case study)
3. Talent Management, guidelines, importance, benefits, challenges, and developing a talent strategy
4. Performance Management, definition, benefits, and using it to motivate employees
5. Talent Reviews, 360-degree feedback, talent calibration, and maintaining your workforce
6. Succession and Career Planning, planning, execution, and overcoming common roadblocks
7. Employee Engagement, engaging across generations and understanding what influences engagement
8. Competency Assessments, definition and practical implementation
9. Coaching, Training and Development, goal setting, feedback, and developing people
10. Do’s and Don’ts for Talent Management, practical tips that prevent costly mistakes
11. Employee Retention, retention goals, motivation, and expectancy theory
12. Wrap-up and Lessons Learned, post-workshop overview and topics to explore next

Each module is designed to be discussed and applied, not just presented, so delegates leave with notes they can turn into action in their own teams.

Quick-Look Course Summary

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for the people who own talent outcomes in your organisation:

• HR and L&D professionals building or refining a talent strategy
• Line, department and operations managers responsible for developing and retaining their teams
• Business owners in growing companies who need a leadership pipeline
• Recruitment and people teams wanting to connect hiring to long-term development

No prior qualification is required. The workshop is practical and immediately applicable to your current teams and roles. Because it is delivered as a closed group, you can also mix HR specialists and line managers in the same room, which is often where the most useful conversations about your real talent challenges happen.

Why Run This Course In-House With BOTI

• Practical, not theoretical, every module is reinforced with case studies your managers can apply the next day.
• Built for your team, run as a closed in-house group so the framework, language and examples are shared across your people managers.
• Flexible delivery, at your premises, off-site, or remote across South Africa to suit teams in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria and beyond.
• Trusted by leading SA organisations, BOTI has trained teams at Sasol, Glencore, the City of Johannesburg and many more.
• Volume pricing, the per-delegate cost drops significantly for groups, making team-wide upskilling cost-effective.

Running the course in-house also means the discussion stays focused on your business: your roles, your retention risks and your succession gaps, rather than generic examples from a public class.

How This Fits a Wider HR Strategy

Talent management works best alongside the disciplines that feed it. If you are building a complete people-development capability, consider pairing this course with:

• Human Resources Management Training, for teams that want to strengthen their approach to recruiting and selecting candidates.
• Creating High Performing Teams through Performance Management, to embed the performance-review skills introduced in this course.
• Business Succession Planning Course, to deepen the succession and career-planning module.
• Employee Recruitment Course, to strengthen the assessment and recruitment stages of the talent lifecycle.
• Effectively Manage Human Resources and Labour Relations, for the compliance and labour-relations side of people management.

Browse the full course range to build a learning path for your team.

Funded and Group Training

Because this is a non-accredited skills workshop, it sits well within a broader workplace skills plan. If your business pays the Skills Development Levy (SDL, 1% of payroll), structured staff training like this can form part of the discretionary and mandatory grant submissions you make through your SETA, and it contributes toward the skills-development element of your B-BBEE scorecard, which targets spend of 6% of the leviable amount. Workplace training also strengthens your position on public and corporate tenders, where preference points under the PPPFA (2022 regulations) are awarded against specific goals, such as HDI ownership (race, gender and disability) and RDP-aligned commitments, rather than a generic B-BBEE level, with set-asides now provided for under the Public Procurement Act 28 of 2024. (This is general guidance, not financial or legal advice, confirm specifics with your SETA, B-BBEE practitioner and procurement adviser.) Ask us how to position this course within your annual training plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long is the Talent Management Course?

The course runs for one full day, delivered instructor-led with case studies throughout. It can be scheduled at your venue or off-site to suit your team’s calendar.

How much does the Talent Management Course cost?

Is the Talent Management Course accredited?

No. This is a practical, facilitator-led skills programme; delegates receive a BOTI certificate of attendance (this is not an accredited qualification). BOTI is an accredited training provider (Services SETA 12582 and QCTO). If you need a credit-bearing route, ask about our QCTO-accredited Generic Management qualification.

Who should attend talent management training?

HR and L&D professionals, line and department managers, recruitment teams, and business owners responsible for developing and retaining staff. No prior qualification is needed.

Can the course be delivered in-house for our team?

Yes. BOTI delivers this course in-house at your premises, off-site in major SA city centres (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria), or remotely on request, ideal for training a whole HR or management group together.

Request a Quote or a 15-Minute Callback

Prefer to plan first? Download our free workplace skills planning checklist, or call us on 011-882-8853 to discuss how the Talent Management Course fits your team’s development plan.