Visual management tools can create a system for accurately keeping track of where your talent is in the hiring system.

1. Where is My
Talent?
A TLS Continuum Guide to
Process Improvement

2. Do you know wbere your
talent is?
Asking both internally and externally to the
organization
In your talent acquisition process, where is
your talent?
If you are like most organizations you can
not answer affirmatively the question

3. There is an answer
The TLS Continuum toolbox can provide
you the answer
Three Tools
Process Maps
Value Stream Maps
Visual Management

4. Process Maps
Eagle’s eye view of your organization
It lays out the steps of your talent
acquisition process
It lays out the relationships between the
various stages of talent management

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Recruitment Process Map
Hiring Manager
Candidate
Job
Requisition
Interview
Offer

6. Process Maps - How do we create
one
From the Lean Six-Sigma Pocket Toolbox – Steps to Create a
Process Map
(Lean Six-Sigma Pocket Toolbox by Michael George McGraw
Hill)
Review the process being studies and its boundaries as
defined in your project.
Identify the type of chart you want to create
Have participants identify the steps in the process

7. Process Maps - How do we
create one
From the Lean Six-Sigma Pocket Toolbox – Steps to Create a
Process Map
(Lean Six-Sigma Pocket Toolbox by Michael George McGraw
Hill)
Working as a team, arrange the steps in order
Discuss the results
Number the tasks sequentially
Transfer the completed map to paper or computer

8. Process Maps
We can bring the process down to the
ground level
It uses an enhanced process map called a
value stream map
Shows same steps as the process map but
includes all the added time, documents
etc.

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Recruitment Value Stream Process Map

10. Value Stream Maps
Shows us the hidden information to
understand where our talent is
Allows for the realignment of physical and
mental resources
Understanding of what is in it for the
organization

11. Value Stream Maps - How do we
create one?
Using the “Lean Six-Sigma Pocket Toolbook” by
Michael George, the way the form is completed
is to follow these steps:
Create a SIPOC Diagram of the plant to cup
process
Draw the process flow
Begin the process at the end with what’s
delivered to the customer and work
upstream
Identify the main activities
Place the activities in sequence on the map
Add the material flow
Show the movement of all material
Group together material with the same flow

12. Value Stream Maps - How do we
create one?
Using the “Lean Six-Sigma Pocket Toolbook” by
Michael George, the way the form is completed
is to follow these steps:
Add the material flow
Show the movement of all material
Group together material with the same flow
Map all of the sub processes
Include any incoming inspection and process
testing activities
Add suppliers at the beginning of the
process
Add the information flow
Map the information flow between activities
Document how the process communicates

13. Value Stream Maps - How do we
create one?
Using the “Lean Six-Sigma Pocket Toolbook” by
Michael George, the way the form is completed
is to follow these steps:
Add the information flow
Map the information flow between activities
Document how the process communicates
with the customers and suppliers
Document how information is gathered
Collect process data and connect it to the boxes
on the chart
Walk the process to observe reality
Gather information pertaining to what starts
the step, set up time, rate of customer

14. Value Stream Maps - How do we
create one?
Using the “Lean Six-Sigma Pocket Toolbook” by
Michael George, the way the form is completed
is to follow these steps:
Collect process data and connect it to the boxes
on the chart
Walk the process to observe reality
Gather information pertaining to what starts
the step, set up time, rate of customer
demand, percent defects, and number of
people, downtime, work in progress, and
cost of links to IT etc.
Add process and lead time data to chart

15. Visual Management
A picture is worth a thousand words
A picture is bigger than your big data

16. Visual Management

17. Visual Management
Creates system where you can visually track
your talent
Simple way to meet the needs of the visual
person

18. Visual Management
White board is divided into a column for
each phase of the talent management
process
Post a notes become the process guide
One post a note for each human capital
asset moving through the system

19. Visual Management
Beginning with the sourcing of candidates
the post a note is moved through the
process
Provides you a real time look at where your
talent is
One post a note for each human capital
asset moving through the system

20. What do I do?
As an HR professional your responsibility is
to know where your talent is
The tools discussed help you answer that
call to action
Provide you with a clear picture of the talent
flow through the organization.

21. How can I learn more?
1 Read Dave Ulrich’s book
2 Attend our Road to HR Excellence training
3 Create process maps and value
stream maps of your talent management
4 Create a visual management
system for your organization

22. MORE INFORMATION?
Daniel Bloom
SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Bloom &Associates, Inc.
PO Box 1233
Largo, FL 33779
(727) 581-6216
dan@dbaiconsulting.com
http://www.dbaiconsulting.com