ABSTRACT
Companies running talent development programmes soon realize that they need to develop top-quality people who can lead and motivate others to achieve the highest levels of productivity and, hence, performance. There are a number of factors that are important in achieving top-level results, but perhaps the main ones are to develop and sustain outstanding ability in business strategy, stewardship and management of change. Within the current concept of talent management, education issues now cover many more skills, enabling participants to ask and answer issues. Clearly, these issues implies that people identified as participants on the programme have attended more than just a 'Finance for non-Finance managers' course. This means that the type of education needed will cover such subjects as: value theory and earned value analysis, cost of capital, discounted cash flow, project evaluation, risk management. Since Internal training is not normally a position occupied by the most ambitious or enthusiastic employees.
