Ask ten people to define talent management and chances are, you will get ten very different definitions covering everything from how you hire to how you fire. But no matter how you define it, there is one common element at the root of talent management - people. Ideally, talent management should be a series or set of integrated processes that impact every stage of an employee’s career with the goal of keeping them engaged, motivated and productive in order to help a company meet its strategic and operational goals.