Discussing talent management of tomorrow & hosting a keynote at the Talent Management Reloaded Europe conference in Berlin! 💡 Last week my colleague Anne Nüsse from Hermes Fulfilment DE and I attended the 3-day conference and hosted a keynote on achieving synergies while balancing group and subsidiary talent management strategies in the decentral Otto Group. This is our day-to-day challenge we overcome with the following approach: 1. Generate solutions together on eye-level with all group companies. 2. Develop central frameworks which allow a certain degree of freedom. An initiative where we lived this participatory approach is #YourNextMove where Otto Group talent receive technical and personal support on their Group-wide career. They are added to a talent pool and advised by their talent broker. The initiative is open to all career levels and our employees can nominate themselves to steer their own careers. We exchanged ideas, discussed thought-provoking case studies and met amazing leaders in talent management from different companies interacting in different industries, countries and structures but with similar challenges ahead. My key takeaways: 1. Utilise a skill-based job architecture to evolve career paths in line with diagnostics, compensation, learning and development. 2. Multiply the benefits of the company structure through customised talent management strategies, with clarity about the structure as the basis. 3. Use AI to reduce manual work (while reskilling employees who have done the manual work for other, more meaningful work), gain insights into employee sentiment, support skills mapping and create a holistic employee experience. 4. Identify future roles ahead of time, ensure good succession planning and take employees on the journey. And finally, a big thank you to Anne Nüsse for asking me to co-host the keynote with her, to Susan Kröber and Ronja Liebnau for supporting this opportunity, to Martyna Bezrąk, Ralph Köppen and the team for organising and chairing the conference, and to all the interesting people I have met. Let‘s keep up this spirit and work on a bright, transparent and tech-informed talent management! #TalentManagement #EmpowHR #togetherwepushthelimits