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“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

Gamification, including “serious gaming” and “social gaming,” is an innovative enabler of today’s multigenerational workforce that is increasingly used to support learning. Serious games and mobile learning are serious business today. What does a real-world serious game look like? How and why does it work? How are the games developed, delivered and played? What features are critical for learning success? And how do you get started? IBM learning experts from three perspectives will walk you through real-world success stories and answer your questions about how your organization can harness the benefits available today from gamification and mobile learning.

Driving consistent, measurable business impact through any learning function is a difficult proposition. In fact Bersin & Associates High Impact Learning Organization research shows that the gap between those that do it well and the rest continues to only get wider. Add to the mix the complications of a global organization and the degree of difficulty can increase seemingly exponentially. Building working relationships across distances (geographic, linguistic, cultural – to name a few); balancing central goals with local relevance; creating timely, targeted and personalized solutions efficiently and at global scale – the challenges are clear. The solutions are not quite so clear.

Fifty to 60% of companies fail to achieve their goals and objectives (Source: McKinsey & Co and IBM Global Business Services). What can be done about this and whose responsibility is it to see that the situation improves? The first question is why does this happen with the answer being because employees don’t know what they need to do to help the company achieve its goals and objectives, and/or because they are too preoccupied with personal issues to do what is expected of them. The responsibility for this rests with the CEO, however he or she can’t do what is needed alone. While Human Resources should be the obvious choice to address this problem it is not viewed as a “line” function as often as it is “staff”, and as a result, they are not called upon to help with goal achievement. This presentation discusses both the problem (why companies fail to achieve their goals and objectives) as well as what HR can do to gain the trust of senior management regarding their contribution to the overall effort.