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Types of talents you should have in your company
Do you know what your employees are particularly good at? Have you identified the areas in which they might excel? Here are the different types of talents.
Isabel García
HR Consultant
4 of March, 2025
As you may well know, employees are the most important asset for a company, and, therefore, for business success. That’s why it is highly advisable to know the different types of talent that exist in order to encourage them in your company.
But, let’s start by defining what is talent. This refers to personal and professional qualities that allow workers to perform tasks with a greater or lesser degree of solvency. Talents usually occur in people and manifest themselves in different ways.
When choosing the strategy to attract talent, having employees on staff with different types of talents can make the difference since you will have a very multidisciplinary and rich team, with different points of view. However, it’s important that you ensure they work well together.
“Increase the caliber of your players and your chances of winning will increase”
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The 4 types of talents that companies should have
There are four generations of talent, but if we considered all the different types of talent that exist we would make an endless list, since there are many and not all are related to the business field. That’s why we are going to focus on the talents most desired by companies, having them will improve the perspective of the teams when facing any kind of challenges.
Evident talents
We refer to evident talents as those skills or abilities of employees that have already been developed and are evident, so the company has been able to detect them at some point. For example, a designer should have demonstrated creativity.
The evident talents are practically infinite as they include a multitude of social skills, personal qualities, professional competencies, knowledge… These are a type of talent that is revealed during the hiring and selection processes.
Potential talents
In our opinion, these are the ones that the company should pay attention to since they bring many benefits to the company without the need to hire new personnel. The potential talents are all those professional skills that a worker could develop with ease with the appropriate stimuli from the company.
To detect this type of talent, the company has to do a good job of observation from the human resources department to detect that potential in emerging skills of the workers. For example, if a worker shows attitude or interest in management and leadership, it would be advisable to exploit this in order to turn him into a project manager.
We recommend that you pay attention to qualities such as creativity, persuasion, problem-solving, leadership, empathy, self-control, enthusiasm, motivation of others… By boosting these traits of workers, you will get happy and productive workers, and this will be reflected in the results of your company.
Hidden talents
This is, perhaps, the hardest type of talent to identify. It’s about those talents neither the employee nor the company has identified and, therefore, are not visible.
The key to detecting hidden talents in employees is to create the right environment for them to come to light. For example, you can give the employee more responsibility for a certain period of time and see how they react, offer them new tasks, create teambuilding activities… In addition, they can also offer incentives to employees to improve their skills and encourage them to take on new roles in the company. These incentives can range from free hours to promotions or internal promotions.
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