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The Talent Foundation is a not for profit organisation. We are a networking organisation developing new thinking, undertaking practical research and creating business tools to enable businesses and individuals to adapt, grow and thrive in a world of change.

Talent Foundation News

It’s official; you can learn how to become more intelligent

The UK’s Talent Foundation brought together a group of experts at the Centre for Management Learning and Development at the University of Surrey on Tuesday 11 March to discuss some surprising ways of thinking about talent. Drawing on new research into intelligence and learning, experts demonstrated the many ways in which people can learn to become more intelligent. Far from being stuck with whatever IQ they are born with people now have the opportunity to become smarter as they go through life.

Three of the country’s leading experts, Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith, Professor Louise Stoll, and Talent Foundation Chairman, Dr Bill Lucas, presented evidence and delegates from business and education explored ways in which their findings could be applied practically.

Event organizer, Bill Lucas, said: “This is a unique event, bringing together compelling evidence about the emerging science of learnable intelligence. Employers need to understand the ways in which their workforce can grow its brainpower and schools, colleges and universities should heed the lesson that attitudes to intelligence influence results. In short, people who believe that they can do things to make them smarter are more likely to invest in their own learning than people who see their intelligence as being fixed.”

The Talent Foundation, with Edge, recently published the report New Kinds of Smart; emerging thinking about what it is to be intelligent today. After a year of research involving leading academic and business thinkers, this report challenges many accepted views of intelligence and offers some radical new thinking on how you can learn to be smarter at work and at home.

You can download a copy of the New Kinds of Smart Report here.

The Talent Foundation Research Trust has launched its recent fund raising target of £100,000 this year in order to support a number of projects looking at personal development and Talent Management. If you are interested in supporting the TFRT please send us an email at talentfoundation@hotmail.co.uk

Other Projects

The Talent Foundation continues to support a number of projects with its partner Exemplas Limited. Exemplas are leading on a number of European funded projects such as the development of a programme called Diversity Talent Key for people who have been unemployed for a long period.
We are also developing a business tool that helps organisations understand what makes them adaptable in a changing business environment. Click here to send us an email if you would like further information or go to the web site ofr the Adaptability Index. talentfoundation@hotmail.co.uk
www.adaptabilityindex.com

Talent Foundation Events

Another Successful Annual Celebration of Talent

TTF held its annual celebration of talent at the RAC Club on Wednesday 12 December 2007. The evening was a great success and provided another opportunity to network and to share some discussions on the role of formal education in the development of talent. The keynote speech was given by Lynne Sedgemore CBE the Chief Executive of the Centre for Excellence and Leadership. TTF will be looking at this area of work in more detail during 2008.

Our thanks go to our sponsors Consulting Strategies who kindly supported the Talent Foundation event.

If you areinterested in any of these issues give Stewart Segal a call on 07970 524022 or email him at stewart_segal@hotmail.com.

Thinking Like a Composer

On 10th July 2007 The Talent Foundation held a very successful event led by composer David Stoll. David led a very practical musical session on the creative processes used by composers. The capacity audience which was made up from people from the private and public sectors enjoyed the session as well as seeing the benefits of using some of the lessons learned in their own work contexts. To download some background information on David Stoll and his workshops please click here. userfiles/File/thinking like a composer - handout.pdf

Talent Development in the NHS

The previous event held by The Talent Foundation was held at Dartmouth House on the 9th May 2007 where we discussed the issue of talent development in the health sector. Our guest speaker was Steve Ryan the Medical Director of the Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust. Steve told a number of stories of people who had been given the chance to develop their talents in roles that they would not have previously considered and he showed the benefit of giving people that opportunity.
- Future Talent Foundation Events.

The events timetable for 2008 will be released shortly

Please email us if you are interested in attending any of the events. We will be sending out more details on each of the events nearer the date.