30 Ways to Present Talent Management [concept visualization]

If you’re about to present a talent management issue to the key team members or board, it’s important to make a good impression. Besides the presentation content, a proper topic visualization can make a difference too, in your speech delivery. Here are some visual solutions we propose.

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Talent management influences a bunch of HR activities, key employee-oriented organizational structures, personal development stages, employee branding… This list is endless. And that’s why illustrating a talent concept is a bit tricky.

Using a simple picture of a person is too obvious. How it differs from a general HR? In order to illustrate specifically Talent Management, let’s use a trick. Combine two simple icons – and see how you can reach more interesting results.

Design-Neutral Icons for Talent Management

Above we suggest some variants of flat symbols, which you can easily apply to any kind of presentation:

• people, representing ideas and talents: idea, valuable knowledge, innovative thoughts, mathematical or analytical thinking
• combined icons of a person and medal, cup or stars – to show superiority or excellence; of a person and thumb up – representing quality; two hands and a person – growing talents and skills; head with brain and gears
• a team symbol, illustrating various talent processes and concepts: medal or cup, stars or gears
• pictograms for presenting talent management stages or activities:
  • searching for valuable employees – magnifying glass and a bulb
  • recruiting – magnifying glass with an icon of a person
  • critical skills analysis – a person with a target near
  • training and performance support represented by brain
  • synergy and employee engagement – puzzles
  • coaching and mentoring – a growing plant icon
  • different kinds of talents – color palette and theater masks

Creative Hand Drawn Symbols for Showing Talents

You have to create a more informal presentation or you want to make a strong visual impact? Anyway, with the help of hand-made icons you will definitely show personal touch:

• people’s figures for presenting various talents or processes:
  • with a medal
  • with the valuable idea in form of a diamond
  • achieving goals and targets – associated with climbing a mountain
  • with a brush and music symbol – for showing artistic talents
  • with the innovative cool idea – with light bulb near the head
• joint icon of three people – with one outstanding
• brain pictogram

More concept icons ideas

Need to show another concept in a presentation? Value, Action, Growth you name it.

Check our ultimate Concept Visualization List blog post

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Use the power of visual language

These are the visual ideas we propose and encourage you to be more creative 🙂 Talent management is the area of presenting which you can experiment more and use more uncommon symbols without hesitating.

What icon style would you rather use in a presentation: flat or creative?