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As organizations find ways to deploy internal talent more effectively, here are 13 articles and resources on internal mobility and the internal talent marketplace (ITM).
Building an ITM
- Building and Sustaining a Thriving Talent Marketplace | Mercer |This 16-page paper offers suggestions for thinking through various ITM components, such as the business
case, examples of ROI, challenges in implementation, and guidance on how to gain momentum. - How to Design an Internal Talent Marketplace | Harvard Business Review | Provides ideas for implementing an ITM and covers topics such as determining what ITM data to leverage
and how to incentivize participation. - Activating the Internal Talent Marketplace | Deloitte Insights | Describes how firms can accelerate the delivery of their internal talent marketplace through an iterative design.
- A New Talent Operating Model: Becoming an Agile and Learning Organization Through Internal Talent Mobility | Organizational Dynamics | An article by Edie Goldberg that covers the various components of an internal talent mobility strategy.
Case Study
- How to Start Smart With a Talent Marketplace | MIT Sloan Management Review| Shares Booz Allen’s experience in launching an internal talent marketplace, including key lessons learned during the first year of the project.
Questions
- Guiding Questions for Talent Marketplace Readiness | Deloitte | Includes 45 questions that help organizations take a more holistic approach to planning and executing an internal talent marketplace.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
- Internal Talent Mobility Programs Can Advance Gender Equity. Do Yours? | BCG | Summarizes how internal mobility programs—specifically internal talent marketplaces—can help address gender inequities by democratizing access to opportunities.
Barriers
- What Stops Employees from Applying for Internal Roles | HBR | Addresses three main barriers that discourage employees from applying internally and offers suggestions for how firms can enable internal mobility.
- Template for Auditing 6 Non-technological Barriers to Internal Mobility in an
Organization | Brian Heger |This one-page editable template provides talent practitioners with a simple way to identify if six nontechnological barriers to internal mobility exist in their organizations. - 5 Indicators of Manager Talent Hoarding | Brian Heger | I share a few indicators that might provide one measure of managers’ tendency to hoard internal talent on their teams.
Experience Maps
- Using Experience Maps to Accelerate Development | The Talent Strategy Group | Covers how organizations can accelerate employees’ job and career development through experiences.
Internal Movement
- What Outperformers Do Differently to Tap Internal Talent | MIT Sloan Management Review | Outlines 4 talent practices organizations use to increase the utilization of lateral job moves as a source of career development.
- Let Your Top Performers Move Around the Company | HBR | i4cp | Provides four ways in which firms can create a culture that encourages internal mobility and reduces talent hoarding.
BONUS RESOURCE: Book
- Book: The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity | Edie Goldberg and Kelley Steven-Waiss share in their book six core principles for implementing an internal talent marketplace.
