1. The ‘SAGE’ Framework for Maximizing
Talent Potential through Blended Learning
Created, Developed & Presented
by
Murad Salman Mirza
Senior Vice President
(Client Advocacy & Organizational Effectiveness)
APAC & EMEA Regions

2. Table of Contents
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Objective
Introduction
Pictorial Depiction of the ‘SAGE’ Framework
Constituent Elements of the ‘SAGE’ Framework
Conclusion

3. Objective
• This presentation focuses on providing an overview of the
‘SAGE’ framework for ensuring that desired talent within an
organization is adequately motivated, suitably developed,
objectively synchronized and passionately focused on
achieving organizational goals

4. Introduction
• Every professional is talented in one way or another.
However, one of the keys for business success is to find the
right mix of talent that can prosper within an organization’s
unique set of internal and external environmental factors.
Such an initiative requires the enabling of progressive
practices that can infuse the required core competencies
within the human fabric that covers the various organizational
functions. Consequently, Blended Learning has been
synthesized by complementing online technology to the
traditional concept of formal training. The following ‘SAGE’
framework has been devised to engage such an endeavor in
an efficient, timely, productive and effective manner

5. Pictorial Depiction of the ‘SAGE’ Framework
Study
Empower
Talent
Galvanize
Apply

6. Constituent Elements of the ‘SAGE’ Framework
• Study Phase
– Devising an organizational learning and development strategy in line with
business sustainability & growth imperatives
– Establishing an efficient and effective process for learning & growth on an
organizational, functional, group and individual level
– Developing an organizational map of available & desirable competencies
within various functional hierarchies according to business sustainability &
growth imperatives
– Conducting training need analysis (TNA) for rationalizing learning &
development imperatives
– Sourcing & selection of suitable formal training options
• Apply Phase
– Planning & scheduling of formal training calendar
– Communication of formal training information to trainers, participants and
their functional supervisors
– Coordinating with functional supervisors of participants to ensure their
availability for formal training with appropriate logistical arrangements

7. Constituent Element of the ‘SAGE’ Framework
(Cont…)
• Galvanize Phase
– Monitoring & evaluating formal training for ensuring & gauging desired
learning & development gains from formal training
– Developing a list of recommended e-learning options from the internal
knowledge bank/shared service offerings
– Incentivizing trainees for utilization of recommended e-learning options
from the internal knowledge bank/shared service offerings for
reinforcement of formal training
• Empower Phase
– Periodic review of the internal knowledge bank/shared service offerings
– Authorizing & encouraging proactive acquisitions to timely update
options pertaining to e-learning within the internal knowledge
bank/shared service offerings
– Motivating employees in taking proactive steps to enhance their
professional credentials in accordance with organizational priorities

8. Conclusion
• This framework has been presented as a ‘baseline’, upon
which, future strategies can be optimally devised, developed,
deployed, monitored, reinforced, reviewed and improved to
strengthen the progressive Talent Management initiatives