Front Cover -- Strategic Career Management -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. An Overview of Career Strategy -- Case study: First Choice case study - Developing a talent management strategy -- 2. Focusing in on Your Talent: Getting the Balance Right -- Case study: Virgin Atlantic -- 3. Building the Business Case -- Case study: Establishing a new talent pool and making the business case in the Legal Services Commission (LSC) -- 4. Revitalising Your Succession Management -- Case study: Revitalising succession management in a large transport company (anon) -- 5. The Practicalities of Career Acceleration Pools -- Case study: Rolls-Royce case study: revitalising your talent strategy -- 6. Developing the Key Roles -- Case study: LogicaCMG: developing a coaching culture to support career development -- 7. Fostering Opportunities for Growing Careers -- Case study: Personal reflections on an international posting -- 8. Developing Career Self-Reliance amongst Your Talent -- Case study: Career development workshop for high potentials, Lexmark -- Case study: Nationwide - a supported self-management approach to careers -- 9. Final Reflections -- Appendix -- References -- Index.