Upcoming Webcasts

“Creating a high-performance culture” – as learning and talent management professionals, this is something we hear about often. But what is the best way to achieve this?

Through the alignment of learning and performance processes including cascading goals, linking personal goals to organizational goals, learning and talent management leaders can communicate required competencies and identify potential skill gaps. Learning priorities are then based on performance goals and from identified skill and competency gaps a personalized learning path can be created that provides tailored development linking back to performance goals.

Sound like talent management Nirvana? Not sure where to start? It’s more attainable than you think. Join us as we discuss how your people and your organization can benefit by connecting performance and learning to create a high-performance culture. During this webinar we will discuss how you can:

• Connect learning and talent processes to tie learning to goals and performance
• Leverage Talent Expansion technologies to cascade goals throughout the organization, provide contextual learning and give people the tools they need to be great at their jobs
• Set and measure learning and talent management results with integrated analytics
• Start building your integrated learning and talent management program immediately with a few easy steps

Organizations today are facing a number of people challenges. We have an aging workforce, a talent shortage, a leadership talent shortage, lack of succession planning – succession development, a mobile work force, and a work force that has a high level of disengagement. This webinar will look at the definition of succession planning and its history. We will look at the business challenges that are facing most organizations today and how the lack of succession planning will have a huge impact on their success moving into the future.The webinar will provide a snapshot of some of the steps that are required in the development of a succession plan and the development strategy that is part of an effective implementation strategy.Organizations must begin the succession planning process and must ensure that they have a succession development strategy as well. Don’t end your legacy on a bad note. Take the time to plan and implement properly. “Can you afford not to?”

Become an Executive Priority by Thinking Strategically and Proving HR's Leadership Relevance! Understand Executive Priorities, Design Organizational Initiatives that solve business issues, and produce metrics to measure program efficiency! The time is now for Human Resources to take the organizational driver's seat and guide strategic change. In this session we will arm you with the ability to articulate board room speak on the issues that genuinely matter to your employees. HR is the voice of the organization and your Executives are ready to listen. So what about your employees? The workforce is looking for engaging technology, fresh program branding, rewards that matter, and Global consistency. Commoditized employee rewards programs are a waste of valuable organizational funds....it's time to stop thinking about program budgets and start thinking about driving revenue!

Workplace grief costs U.S. businesses billions of dollars a year in reduced productivity and increased errors and accidents, yet the word grief rarely shows up in reports. In The Hidden Annual Cost of Grief in America’s Workplace 2003 report, the keyword in the title of this report is the word "hidden." It is just that factor that has caused the problem to escalate to now unimaginable proportions and it is the essential reason that it is getting worse rather than better. In this presentation we will address the definition of grief, the grief/workplace connection, the cost of "presenteeism" to corporations and we will discover how managers and other employees can support coworkers who have experienced personal loss.

The good news is that most workplace stress is reversible! Learn the tips and strategies that successful thought leaders and business people live by. Learn how to gain stress management/reduction while increasing productivity, focus and creativity in the workplace and at the same time experiencing improved health and happiness! You will learn "tools for your toolbox" in basic relaxation, meditative and stress release techniques as well as empowering and research driven/proven behaviors for successfully turning around stress and negative relationships in the workplace. You will gain insight into how to create and attain goals, manage time effectively and overcome phone and meeting avoidance or inappropriate involvement.