Where are we on the talent map Anne Fawcett Managing Partner The Caldwell Partners International

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Where are we on the talent map? Anne
FawcettManaging PartnerThe Caldwell Partners
International
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Context The 90s and TodayThe War for Talent

• Aggressive positioning for talent by all types of
  organizations
• Individuals more confident of their value
• Significant personal wealth creation
• Individual choice pre-eminent
• Greater individual/family priority on broad
  quality of life
• Life decisions increasingly driving career
  decisions

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Whats the secret to power hiring and power
retention?

• Location
• Location
• Location
• To attract more of the best talent, its not
  enough to be the right kind of organization.
• Your organization needs to be in the right kind
  of place.

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Our Perspective -The Talent Pool

• Business, professional services, broader
  not-for-profit sector, public service all
  sectors of the economy
• National Halifax to Vancouver
• North America
• International
• Directors, leaders, emerging leaders, free agents

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Four distinct groups

• All making personal decisions - and making or
  influencing business decisions
• Displaying somewhat different priorities/
  decision processes
• Men and women
• Increasingly diverse

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Board Members Senior Influencers

• Making life choices
• Broadly engaged in a variety of activities
• Quality of life drives career/life choices
• In their 50s and 60s
• Affluent
• Engaged in dual life and career planning
• Powerful volunteers/philanthropists

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Organization leaders

• Business, government, broader not-for-profit
  sector
• Making major business/organization decisions
• Intensely engaged
• Career priority day job
• Many display conscious focus on values
• Business leaders significant financial
  volunteer contributors to the not for profit
  sectors
• Engaged in dual life and career planning
• Affluent
• Personal and business decisions significantly
  influenced by quality of life
• In their 30s, 40s and 50s

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Emerging leaders

• Business, government, broader not-for-profit
  sector
• Intensely engaged
• Career progress - a priority but not sole focus
• Job options are a priority
• Good level of disposable income
• Developing conscious focus on values
• Engaged in dual career and life planning
• Significantly influenced by quality of life
• Confident in making unorthodox career/life
  choices
• Developing philanthropic and volunteer posture
• In their 20s and 30s

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Free agents and professionals

• 20 of the professional and managerial work force
  and growing
• Intensely engaged but on and off
• Serve many organizations by choice
• Good level of disposable income personal wealth
• Quality of life driving career/life decisions
• Location flexible doesnt matter where they
  live
• Age 30s to 60s

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Quality of life is code for . . .

• Safe
• Healthy and clean
• Excellent education opportunities
• Accessible, quality health care
• Job options economic opportunity
• Community a place to belong - inclusive
• Tolerant, open and diverse easy to connect
• Quality of life opportunities for all in the
  community
• Lots of accessible, affordable entertainment,
  cultural and recreational choices a buzz,
  excitement

• Affordable and easy to get around
• Something for everyone in the family
• Efficient everything we need is here
  amenity rich
• Activities for participating not spectating
• Opportunities to contribute to make a
  difference

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Major attitude shifts in the last 20 years . . .

• Attracting and retaining talent has become a
  major driver of business decisions
• Talented people
• are more confident and independent in making
  career and life decisions
• are most strongly influenced by quality of life
  considerations
• want to be active partners in their communities
  volunteers and philanthropists

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Conclusion

• The choices that people - and organizations -
  make about whether to live and work in the GTA
  impact our community at four levels
• Business decisions
• Personal, career and life decisions
• Volunteer and philanthropic decisions
• Investment decisions personal and business