Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

CHAPTER 10

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

SHANNON WALLIS, BRIAN O. UNDERHILL, AND CARTER MCNAMARA

 

 

 

 

Leaders Building Leaders—transforming Microsoft’s high-potential development experience that integrates assessment, coaching, mentoring, learning circles, action learning, and business conferences.

• Introduction

• What Led Microsoft SMSG to Make the Change

• Expo Leaders Building Leaders—The New High-Potential Development Experience

• High-Potential Identification

• ExPo Tiers

• Five Drivers of Accelerated Development for High-Potentials

• Five Development Components

• The Process of Redesigning the High-Potential Development Experience

• Key Steps and Timeline

• Research Activities

• Team Structure and Thought Leaders

• Transition Management ...