June 2017

80 APAC / June 2017 , 1704AP08 Transforming Talent for Competitive Advantage At ACE, we define talent management as a process for assessing, developing, engaging and deploying all your people in line with future business needs. We are delighted to have this opportunity to profile our work in some detail. The aim of talent management is to transform your employees’ talent - as a competitive advantage to deliver strategic success. We believe the concept of talent management has evolved into a common and essential management practice. What was once solely attached to recruitment and HR, is now integral to the strategic outlook of most companies – plus is the principal lever that enables you to create a workforce that is highly engaged with the success of the enterprise. ACE uses behavioural assessment to help our clients recruit, select and develop great talent. We work with you to ‘assess’ your needs, effect ‘change’ and ‘establish’ new ways. Brought together by a common interest, based on similar approaches and philosophies, our consultants are well-established, multi- disciplinary and multi-lingual. Operating as an international consortium for more than 20 years, we are a reference in the talent management market for the quality of our solutions, services and consultants, and for the care we give each client and each individual participant. We provide ready-to-use and bespoke products as well as consultancy services. We can help you achieve a global approach combined with local knowledge, local understanding and cultural sensitivity. Assessment for recruitment and selection - Our approaches immerse candidates in challenging and stimulating simulations enabling them to display their true talents and potential. Our professional, sensitive approaches enhance the candidate experience and thus your reputation. Leadership development - Drawing from a range of highly flexible virtual and conventional tools that combine the best of technology with proven methodologies, we can tailor solutions to your needs, or design completely bespoke, innovative concepts. Strategic talent and succession - We help you design and implement a complete talent and succession strategy to create a high performing workforce, engaged with your business success. ACE is a community of specialists with shared values: • Transparency between us and our clients; • Confidence, between us and our clients and partners; • Curiosity towards each other, but also towards the market, tools, practices, HR issues; • Openness and transculturality: we build on our cultural differences and complementarities; • Proactivity, force proposal, innovation, competitive intelligence… We question and offer our customers cutting-edge services; • Anticipate the needs of our customers by understanding their issues, allowed by our grids and our agility; • Collaboration. Sharing. Cooperation and regulation. Build win-win relationships to enable the success of partners, clients, people we receive in our development centres; • Balance in relationships, negotiations and; • Skills constantly challenged, refreshed. We train and learn from each other. Principal consulting team Our principal consulting team includes highly experienced business leaders, occupational psychologists and HR professionals who have specialist behavioural expertise, a strong commercial understanding and multi-lingual capability. We are also supported by a large network of partners, who work with us to provide assessment and development solutions around the world. How ACE defines talent At ACE, we define talent management as a process for assessing, developing, engaging and deploying all your people in line with future business needs. The aim of talent management is to transform your employees’ talent as a competitive advantage to deliver strategic success. We believe the concept of talent management has evolved into a common and essential management practice. What was once solely attached to recruitment and HR is now integral to the strategic outlook of most companies and is the principal lever that enables you to create a workforce that is highly engaged with the success of the enterprise. Behavioural assessment for recruitment and selection Our services include behavioural assessment for recruitment and selection. Recruitment and selection is becoming increasingly difficult in our complex environment, which is requiring skills that many people may not yet have had the chance to demonstrate. Moreover, the costs of recruitment and the costs of failure get higher and higher, plus in some cases finding great talent is ever more difficult. Our assessment methodologies enhance the decision-making process by giving candidates an opportunity to display their actual skills and potential. They enable a better matching of candidates to roles and can help you identify the best team and cultural fit. We also place emphasis on creating a stimulating and enjoyable candidate experience that promotes your employee value proposition.