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

THE ECOLAB TALENT PIPELINE

Building on the five business drivers, Ecolab designed and implemented a Talent Pipeline framework that specified the required skills and activities that supported development in and transition through the key passages for each of five organizational pipeline levels:

• Managing oneself (an individual contributor)

• Managing others (front-line leaders)

• Managing managers (mid- to senior-level leaders)

• Function managers (leaders responsible for an entire function)

• Business managers (leaders responsible for an entire line of business)

Ecolab’s pipeline model is described in detail in their Talent Pipeline Guidebook, which it publishes and provides to all employees. The guidebook provides information about all ...