Liz Hall Senior employees value coaching, mentoring and networking more highly than the more formal development opportunities offered by a talent management programme. This was one of the themes that emerged in the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD) survey on how it feels for senior employees to be talent-managed. CIPD research has shown that organisations’ focus on talent management has not only survived the troubled economic climate – in many cases it has even increased in importance (see CIPD publications The War on Talent? and Fighting Back...