Talent Academy
Talent Academy
The internationally-accredited certification programme, developed in partnership with the University of Suffolk and Connect CEE – delivered by professor Andrew Taylor Ph.D.
This program would benefit especially HR professionals and Talent Managers, but it is extraordinarily practical and useful for all entrepreneurs and business managers. Talent Academy is an internationally accredited program, which delivers global standards of quality to its participants.
The Talent Academy program has two levels (Foundation and Advanced), each including six modules. This is the Advanced-level program, but we have a Foundation-level program as well.
After completing every level of the program, participants will be granted an international Talent Management certification issued by the University of Suffolk, United Kingdom. The Certification is issued separately, for each entire program of six modules: Advanced, respectively Foundation. Students can follow both programs and get both Certifications.
Talent Academy is an internationally-accredited program that delivers global standards of quality to its participants. Designed to be both intellectually rigorous and immediately practical, the modular format of this program minimizes impact upon working time, whilst maximizing job relevance. Modules may be taken individually as stand-alone learning.
However, the connection between modules ensures that learning across the program is both logical land interconnected. The use of case studies, experiential tools, and group interactions are central to ensure that learning is interactive and impactful.
Every module will have a one-day length and will be delivered in Cluj-Napoca, one per month, based on a calendar that will be decided together with the participants. The courses will be delivered in face-2-face meetings, in safe and comfortable conditions. At the end of the program, to get the certification, the participants will present a project on how the learning will e practically applied in their own work and organizations.
The Talent Academy programme offers two levels of learning:
Level one – Foundation is designed for less experienced employees (students, juniors or Mid-specialists) and provides a solid foundation, from which to deliver coherent operational outcomes.
Level two – Advanced is designed for more experienced employees (Mid- or Senior-level specialists, HR managers) to be able to make a more strategic contribution to the organisation.
This is Level Two: Advanced – level programme, with the following structure:
Module 1: Strategic HR Management: Compares the three major models of the HR strategy.
Module 2: Performance Management: From onboarding to succession planning, via coaching. How to deliver excellence.
Module 3: Employer Branding: Explores what works and what does not in different cultural and organisational contexts.
Module 4: Motivation & Personality: Explores people`s motivational needs, what motivates people to deliver excellence, theories of personality, how they affect results & may be measured.
Module 5: Management & Leadership: Examines theories of leadership and their relationship to structure, culture, personality etc.
Module 6: High-Performance Management: A practical, theoretical & ethical examination of contemporary high-performance models.
Talent Academy
Professor Andrew Taylor has twenty three years of business experience across Europe, North America & Asia, as a head-hunter, management consultant, interim HR Director, learning facilitator and business school lecturer (University of Hull). He has a Ph.D. from the University of Cardiff, Wales. He is the director of Transylvania Executive Education, the organization delivering The Executive MBA programmes of Hull University Business School.
Andrew has worked for a wide range of multinational clients such as Coca-Cola, Holcim, AIG, PwC, GSK, Deloitte, Orange, Volksbank, ING, Vodafone and many more. The founder of Connect CEE (consulting) and Endike Associates (executive search), he has also written for current affairs magazines & academic journals. In 2013 published his first book and in June 2019 launched his latest book, about how the convergence of technology & globalisation is changing the management of people and political economies.
An accomplished public speaker, Andrew is skilled at working with an audience to ensure that events are exciting, fun and deliver real learning value. Whilst his training as a researcher allows him to quickly identify the key trends that are affecting organisational success. A natural leader, Andrew is able to mobilise support for and deliver organisational changes which are difficult and not always comfortable for those involved.
