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Emerging talent teams can and should play a pivotal role in the development and delivery of organisation-wide talent strategies. This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to create and implement emerging talent strategies that are thoroughly thought through, aligned with your stakeholders’ needs, and focused on high-performance delivery.
As well as covering the essential skills of strategy development, throughout the course you will make use of case studies and cross-industry analysis. Much of the course will be interactive and you will be able to work through live strategic issues in the context of your own organisation alongside your co-delegates. This is a practical programme from which you will emerge with tangible outputs that will improve your present, and future, emerging talent strategy.
Course objectives
The course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to create and action strategic plans that will enable you and your team to:
- Build an emerging talent strategy that is built on robust analysis, structured thinking, and stakeholder engagement and aligns with your organisation’s goals
- Deliver the improved outcomes that meet the strategic talent needs of your organisation’s leadership and a meaningful return on investment
- React and innovate when external and internal forces create uncertainty and change in the talent environment in which you operate
- Become more operationally effective as your tactics and deliverables are focused towards an overall emerging talent strategy
Throughout the course we will work to facilitate the creation or refresh of your strategic approach and help you create concrete outputs that you will use in your current role.
Course content
- Where to start: understanding the purpose and benefits of taking a strategic approach to your work within early careers – including the mistakes organisations can make when developing talent strategies
- How to create your early career mission and vision that determine your strategic goals and objectives
- How to use analytical tools, models, and cross-industry insights to understand both the broader emerging talent market and organisational context in which you are operating
- How to identify and interpret both the external student labour market data and internally sourced data when conducting in-depth analysis and formulating plans
- How to engage with and influence your stakeholders, both internal and external, to create a strategy and encourage longer-term support for what you and your team want to achieve
- How to develop best-fit solutions and make decisions on the best course of action that balance long-term investment requirements with shorter-term cost constraints and operational requirements
- How to create an operational plan off the back of your strategy that includes essentials such as budget management and KPI development that will support the delivery of your strategic goals and enable you to monitor progress
- How flex your strategic approach to emerging talent, as the environment you are operating in will no doubt evolve and change over time
Course structure and costs
The programme starts with a 1-hour stand-alone masterclass that outlines the essential content and also acts as an introduction to the full programme.
The main course will include opportunities for peer learning & collaboration: both through the course and post-course to help you practically apply your learning
The programme will make use of real-time industry knowledge and analysis, practical examples of talent strategy in action, and of developments that could drive future talent strategic thinking
The initial masterclass lasts for one hour, the main programme consists of four three-hour sessions. Post-course, the ISE will facilitate two peer-to-peer follow-up sessions.
Costs
- 1 x 1-hour Masterclass - ISE Members - £75 and Non-Members £95. Click here to register for Masterclass session
- 3 x 4-hour Workshop sessions, one in-person where delegate availability allows - ISE Members - £450 and Non-Members £565 for the programme – masterclass fee deducted if taken)
- 2 x post-course peer-to-peer sessions over a 6-month period (no charge)
Course prices are exclusive of VAT
Course dates
- 24th September 2025, Masterclass session (1-hour, 10:00-11:00)
- 4th November 2025, programme session one (4-hours, 09:30-13:30)
- 2nd December 2025, programme session two (4-hours, 09:30-13:30)
- 13th January 2026, programme session three (4-hours, 09:30-13:30)
Organised by: Stephen Isherwood of Institute of Student Employers
Phone Number: 02045794506
Delegate Terms and Conditions
Delegate bookings: terms and conditions
These terms and conditions apply to the majority of ISE events. Should alternative terms and conditions apply, they will be linked to at the time of booking.
Full payment for delegate places must be made prior to the date of the event. Once a booking is submitted and received by ISE the booking constitutes a firm booking which can only be cancelled in accordance with our cancellation policy set out below.
Cancellation policy
All cancellations must be received by submitting a ‘request a refund’ email .This must then be followed by a telephone call to confirm receipt.
Delegate place cancellations received 29 days or more prior to an event will be entitled to a 100% credit voucher or refund. Cancellations received between 15 days and 28 days (inclusive) prior to the event will receive a 100% credit voucher to attend a future ISE event or a 75% refund. For cancellations received between 1 day and 14 days (inclusive) prior to the event, no credit voucher or refund will be given. Substitutions are welcome at any time.
Failure to attend the event on the day will constitute late cancellation and no refund will be given.
Filming and recording
By attending an ISE event, delegates consent to being filmed, recorded and photographed. Delegates grant the ISE the right to use recordings of any type made of their attendance in any and all media, and by means of publicity and promotion relating to the ISE.
The unauthorised use of photographic, sound or film equipment at an ISE event is strictly prohibited. If you wish to use this equipment, please contact the Events Team prior to the start of the event. The copyright is assigned to the ISE for any recordings of events produced by the ISE. Unauthorised recording may result in content being destroyed, and your removal from the event without a ticket refund.
Programme changes
Due to unforeseen circumstances the programme may change and ISE reserves the right to alter the venue and/or speakers. Any substitutions or alterations will be updated on our website as soon as possible.
ISE reserves the right to cancel an event if enrolment criteria are not met or when conditions beyond its control prevail. Every effort will be made to contact each enrollee if a programme is cancelled. If a programme is not held for any reason, ISE's liability is limited to the refund of the programme fee only.
ISE is not responsible for any loss or damage as a result of a speaker substitution, alteration, cancellation, or postponement of an event. ISE shall assume no liability whatsoever if an event is altered, rescheduled, postponed or cancelled due to a fortuitous event or unforeseen occurrence that renders performance of an event inadvisable, illegal, impracticable or impossible.
For purpose of this clause, a fortuitous event shall include, but shall not be limited to: an Act of God; governmental restrictions and/or regulations; war or apparent act of war; terrorism or apparent act of terrorism: disaster; civil disorder, disturbance, and/or riots; curtailment, suspension, and/or restriction on transportation facilities/means of transportation; or any other emergency.
Registration and payment details
Payment must be made in sterling in advance of the event in order for your booking to be processed. If payment has not been received two weeks before the event, credit card details will be required to guarantee and process your booking.
Delegate Lists
At many of our events we distribute delegates lists to attendees. These lists consist of the full name and company name of all registered attendees, but do not include contact details such as email addresses. If you don’t want to be on the delegate list for an event, please let us know by emailing events@ise.org.uk
Intellectual Property Rights
As a delegate you may receive and possess the course/workshop materials and use and circulate the course materials within your organisation. You may not use the course materials for resale or in the development of a commercial product without the prior written consent of the ISE. The ownership of the course intellectual property rights remain with the ISE unless agreed otherwise in writing with the ISE.
Travel and accommodation
Delegates are responsible for the arrangement and payment of their own travel and accommodation, unless specified otherwise. There are occasions where ISE will arrange a special room rate at a number of hotels. If this is the case it will be detailed on the promotional literature and webpage for that event.
Additional requirements
Please notify ISE when booking (and at least one month before the event date) if you have any additional special requirements to guarantee availability e.g. dietary, wheelchair access, large print, hearing loop etc.
Dissatisfaction with an event
ISE takes complaints very seriously indeed and tries to ensure that all users are pleased with their experience of our service. Those persons who make a complaint will be dealt with courteously and promptly so that the matter is resolved as quickly as possible.
Our aim is to react to complaints in the way in which we would want our complaint about a service to be handled. We learn from every mistake that we make and we intend to respond to complainant's concerns in a professional manner.
Should an issue present itself whilst attending an ISE event, you are encouraged to raise this with a member of the ISE team working onsite. Wherever possible the team will endeavour to resolve any issues as the event takes place.
If you are dissatisfied with an event for any reason, please contact
Vivienne Wootten, Head of Events and Partnerships, by email to vivienne@ise.org.uk or write to Institute of Student Employers, 6 Bath Place, Rivington Street, London EC2A 3JE