Talent management: why it is a determining factor for the growth of a company

Positioned as a national reference in the market for retail jockthe company has its registered office in the city of silver sea and extends its services across 72 branches. Through its flagship brand, it has accelerated its growth in recent years to become a Open Sports Groupwhich allows it to manage the most recognized brands in its market segment.

In this year’s Best Place to Work (GPTW) ranking, it was ranked 15th among organizations with up to a thousand employees. “Get certified one of the best places to work in Argentina It is a distinction that is the result of sustained development for more than 15 years where, as a development strategy, management has made a permanent effort to collectively build a organizational culture where people are located at the center of the business,” reports Band Open Sports.

The Group has taken up the challenge that growth as an organization is determined by the level of development of the people who compose it. In this line, it has integrated an approach based on concepts such as continuous learning, talent training and strategic links with academic institutions.

In this context, Open Sports develops various programs that seek to generate practices that represent these values ​​and give meaning to their culture. One of them is the Professional development programwhere job development is linked to career plans and where sustained growth is generated.

Another proposal is the Apprenticeship and training program, which ensures that members can reach their full potential. It is based on the belief that learning processes transform people’s lives and, therefore, the organization.

As, Organizational assessments is an organizational communication program that optimizes individual and collective performance. From there, an innovative solutions plan based on the five most relevant pillars is designed.

He D&I Program of Open Sports promotes a look at Diversity and Inclusion and involves valuing the differences and capabilities that each individual brings to the organization. It revolves around six strategic axes: thought, opinions and beliefs; gender; people in socio-economic vulnerability; generation; sexual diversity; and people with disabilities.

In this line, the Group has achieved a remarkable feat: balanced the composition of members in hierarchical positions: 48% women and 52% men, participatory distribution that generates innovative solutions that enrich the organization. On the other hand, the pursuit of inclusion in Sign languagethe company has trained employees from different positions to advise people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Similarly, as part of its CSR commitment, for more than nine years Open Sports offers a space for its employees to develop a Volunteer program completely autonomous. The Solidarity Committee manages its own financial resources and selects the beneficiary entities with which it works annually. Since the beginning of this program, more than 25 educational organizations and neighborhood kitchens have been reached.

On the other hand, the Benefits program seeks to reinforce the cultural and organizational values ​​of the company to attract and retain employees. Among these advantages, since 2018 are considered complementary care licenses: additional and cumulative days of leave for pregnancy, birth or adoption, breastfeeding or marriage, among others.

Also in 2018, the company began to implement a hybrid working arrangement for administrative areas. During the pandemic, this innovation allowed us to capitalize and improve this experience to navigate uncertainty with already known methodology and tools, improving the balance between work and personal life. Currently, each domain determines the working model that best suits its objectives.

In line with the improvement in the quality of life of its employees, the company also integrated in 2022 the benefit of daycare payment for children aged 0 to 2 of workers. This is one more example that Grupo Open Sports has been able to understand that the organization in which you want to spend your professional life is built collectively between all of us.