TMI Standards

The TMI Professional Standards

The TMI Universal Knowledge Framework (TMI-UKF^™) is the cornerstone of the world’s first and the most authoritative body of knowledge on the Talent Management profession yet – the research-curated TMI Talent Management Body of Knowledge (TMBoK^™). The TMI-UKF^™ provides HR professionals a set of robust, empirically-tested, and comprehensive guidelines and benchmarks using which Talent Management can be embedded as a practice within the HR function in the organization. The TMI-UKF^™ prescribes the structure of required professional knowledge and competence along which CHROs should ideally flesh out their program for enhancing their department’s Talent Management capabilities. The TMI-UKF^™ is fundamental to all FOUR TMI Credentials – Talent Management Practitioner (TMP^™), Senior Talent Management Practitioner (STMP^™), Global Talent Management Leader (GTML^™), and the TMI-Wharton programs in Talent Management. These certifications reaffirm to aspiring and growing Talent Management professionals the importance of acquiring knowledge essential for successful job performance; and for employers, they prove eminently reliable indicators of professional proficiency of applicants and incumbents.

In the TMI-UKF^™, Talent Management expertise and knowledge has been grouped into TWO broad clusters of knowledge topics or areas – called the TMI-UKF^™ Knowledge Lobes – The Foundational Knowledge lobe and the Functional Knowledge lobe. Among themselves, these two TMI-UKF^™ Knowledge Lobes cover 18 topics of essential knowledge for Talent Management professionals. As may be obvious by now, the elements of the TMI-TMBoK^™ have also been derived from the TMI-UKF^™, and they establish the framework along which the TMI Certification exam system is cast. The TMI Handbook on Talent Management includes detailed treatment of the TMI-UKF^™ and the TMI Talent Management Body of Knowledge.

The TMI Common Body of Knowledge

The TMI Enterprise Standards

The TMI–ETMS^™ (TMI–ETMS^™ Release 11.4.3 in current circulation) fulfills a long-standing need of a unified, internationally valid and pan-industry standards for Talent Management practice in organizations. The TMI–ETMS^™ addresses 14 critical strategic, process, and environment dimensions and prescribes standards across nearly 100 parameters that impact metrics of Talent Management effectiveness in typical modern organizations.

Its rigor and coverage makes TMI–ETMS^™ the world’s first and the only organized set of standards defining systems, processes, and practices for optimally managing talents. According to a TMI-CredForce report on Talent Management practices, the global industry lost more than $5.0 billion USD in the last five years because of causes linked to talent issues – wrong hiring; clogged talent pipelines; attrition, underperformance, information thefts, and ill-designed engagement programs. The report reinforced longstanding industry-view that rapidly rising knowledge-intensity of businesses across the board has forced organizations to move from workforce to talent consciousness. In most ways, the TMI–ETMS^™ Release 11.4.3 is a forceful TMI argument for treating Talent Management as a hyper-function, and distributing its responsibility across departments.