Corporate Vision March 2017

100 CORPORATE VISION / March 2017 , As Regional Talent Development Manager for Asia Pacific, Stephanie Iafigliola talks to us about her role and why it is so important to hire and develop the right staff following her success in achieving the Best Regional Talent Development Specialist – Australia award. The Best Talent in the Market PageGroup is a leading professional recruitment consultancy with offices in all of the main business centres around the world including Sydney, London, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore, Paris, Tokyo and beyond. Its consultants’ roles are to work with employers and job seekers to facilitate a successful match. This can range from advising a global company on a candidate sourcing strategy to helping a job seeker find their dream job. Stephanie Iafigliola, Regional Talent Development Manager for Asia Pacific, tells us more about her learning approach and how they are linked to the firms’ strategic objectives. “Our focus for Talent Development is to create a high-performance culture by driving a leading edge, commercial approach to talent that enables the business to meet its objectives through an engaged and enabled workforce. We collaborate with HR and senior leadership to ensure that our learning initiatives lead to tangible and commercial business outcomes. In my role, partnering with our senior stakeholders that are so passionate about people and learning, makes implementing new learning initiatives relatively simple”. “I believe that every vision is only powerful if it is brought to life each day. Every one of our goals is directly linked to this vision so all of our talented learning professionals know exactly how they are contributing to it. It ensures their day to day is more purposeful as they feel they are working towards something meaningful and contributing to the success of the organisation. “We look to achieve our vision by delivering the most innovative and impactful learning offering out there. We are known for our great training, with one of the most robust learning pathways in the industry; and we want to take that to the next level. To stay cutting edge and relevant we evaluate every element of our learning offering each year and adapt it accordingly. Our people’s needs change and in order to continue to grow, we need to evolve along with it. We upskill ourselves and leverage best practice, whilst staying on top of the new methodologies and techniques in the learning industry. For example, technology has had a major impact on how our employees like to learn new things in life and in their jobs. These new learners like to find information quickly and easily online, they prefer self-directed learning, enjoy collaborating and learning new things in shorter bursts – so we are working to match that. We have “opened the gates” so to speak of who owns and drives learning and we all work together to create the best learning environment for us. With learning ambassadors around the country coaching our rising stars and informal learning increasing as a means to drive performance, we are seeing positive results from embracing this new learning culture, where we are no longer the “gate- keepers” of Talent Development, rather we inspire what learning can achieve. Our future, whilst we have been successful for many years with our strategy, is that we never settle for status quo and our goal is to be the “benchmark” for learning, so we will continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible.” It is clear that a strong team of dedicated employees is key to ensure that PageGroup continues on a successful path and differentiates itself from the competition. Stephanie embellishes on how retaining and developing the best talent in the market is an important step in the right direction. “Along their career journey, our employees are supported by experienced consultants and managers to help them be the best at what they do. At the backbone of our business are our support functions, from Finance to Digital Marketing, HR and so on. These teams comprise of some of the best minds in the industry all with one aim; to provide the best platform for our consultants to be successful. “In Talent Development, our team members are highly skilled learning professionals from various industries with a strong commitment for learning. Our role is to provide the best learning pathway for the talent within our organisation. We work with every stakeholder to tailor and provide learning opportunities that meet their needs. Our roles are structured yet varied as we respond to the changes our business faces each year. From our 90 day on- boarding program to recruitment fundamentals training, all the way to management and leadership development, we pride ourselves on a 360-degree learning strategy. HR160027