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Oct 20, 2009 06:52
14 yrs ago
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French term

accompagner chaque talent vers l’excellence

French to English Bus/Financial Human Resources
This is the title of the introduction to an energy company's Human Resources policy.

At issue is the word "talent," which refers to the company's skilled employees, with the HR policy intended to maximise the use of their skills.

Thanks for any ideas!
Proposed translations (English)
3 +4 Striving for excellence
4 +1 Nurturing talent, achieving excellence
4 guiding (each of) our staff to realise their full potential
4 From high potential to high performance
3 Develop every skill to maximum benefit
3 Some ideas... (see explanation)
3 from individual talent to excellence
Change log

Oct 20, 2009 07:26: Stéphanie Soudais changed "Term asked" from "Accompagner chaque talent vers l’excellence" to "accompagner chaque talent vers l’excellence"

Discussion

whither has fle Oct 20, 2009:
Re "talent" problem. In my part of the world, the word still holds its original meaning of "gifted"...as long as it is not "local"! Cheers.
Tony M Oct 20, 2009:
;-) Indeed, yes... though without the collocation of 'local', and in a formal context, I don't think there's any real risk of ambiguity or smutty sniggering...
polyglot45 Oct 20, 2009:
@ Tony (local) talent has pejorative overtones.....
Tony M Oct 20, 2009:
talent in EN I have come across this same use of 'talent' in EN (though I don't care for it myself) — but I have no idea how widespread or accepted it is.

Proposed translations

+4
23 mins
Selected

Striving for excellence

As it's a title, I would be quite free with the translation and use something that corresponds to en marketing speech. After all, the details will be given in the body of the text.
Peer comment(s):
agree HugoSteckel : I agree, this reads perfectly naturally and I don't feel there's any loss at all.
1 min
thanks
agree Michel F. Morin : Right
1 hr
merci
agree mimi 254
1 hr
thanks
agree Chris Hall : Spot on John - catchy and to the point. This is how a title should be.
4 hrs
thanks
neutral philgoddard : I can't help feeling you're not being true to the original if you leave out the idea of talent. And "Striving for excellence" is very overused - just try googling it.
8 hrs
could be; your suggestion is good
neutral Lianne Wilson : Agree with Phil that it's better to keep the idea of talent in there somewhere, true to the source.
23 hrs
thanks for your view
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26 mins

Develop every skill to maximum benefit

So many possibilities - here's just one

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Note added at 28 mins (2009-10-20 07:21:21 GMT)
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Sorry, I forgot it was a title It needs to be a bit more snappy. Perhaps
Developing skills to maximum benefit, or
Developing skills to maximise benefit
Peer comment(s):
neutral Tony M : But the problem is, here the FR is using 'talent' to mean 'a person (with talent)', rather than 'a skill' per se / Yes, but you're changing it from 'people' to 'ideas'... not sure that works here...?
5 mins
I understand what you're saying, Tony, but surely in HR everything is seen as skills - talented people just have a wider range of better skills
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1 hr

Some ideas... (see explanation)

Some HR-style, fairly snappy titles with varying degrees of mild pomposity...

To excellence through our (rising) stars - a play on 'to the stars/excellence through adversity' (per aspera ad astra)
New talent for new excellence
Driving talent towards excellence
The stars of tomorrow for excellence today - possibly the most 'advertising-ish'
Leading our rising stars to excellence
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2 hrs

from individual talent to excellence

The idea is developing individual potential to achieve excellence rather than general striving for excellence.
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4 hrs

guiding (each of) our staff to realise their full potential

I think that you need to depart a bit from the original, while retaining the idea of valuing and developing the talents of individual employees.
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6 hrs

From high potential to high performance

You already have some great ideas here, but I thought I'd add this.
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+1
9 hrs

Nurturing talent, achieving excellence

Or developing talent.
Peer comment(s):
agree whither has fle : Hi, a lot ofnice answers here, but as a title this would be my favourite. Cheers.
4 hrs
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