Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Do you know whether rating disparities exist along race, gender or age, which may then translate into pay and promotion disparities in a pay-for-performance organization?

Attend this session to help ensure that your company can defend itself on an organization-wide basis against claims of employment discrimination arising from tainted performance ratings? All attendees will gain actionable insight to help you:

• Identify strategies for pay-for-performance organizations to utilize in striking a balance between workforce effectiveness and workforce compliance
• Tips to simultaneously encourage high performing employees while mitigating legal risks
• To spot and avoid potential legal liabilities before they arise

This session will also provide HR leaders the insight needed to arm your business managers with the knowledge necessary to avoid discriminatory practices within performance evaluations. Register for this session today to ensure that your performance processes protect your people and your organization.

Employee health asssessments indicate that as many as 70% of employees report that they 'don't get enough sleep' or are 'often tired at work' and research shows that sleepy employees are sick more often, miss more work and have more accidents and injuries.

What does this mean for your organization? In this presentation, Carolyn Schur, a sleep and fatigue management specialist, will highlight the primary factors contributing to sleep deprivation and outline the consequences for the workplace. She will also provide practical, immediate and long-term organizational measures that can be implemented to ensure better employee performance, health and safety and reduce benefit costs.

As part of the rich history on the topic of identifying and developing ‘high potential’ employees, literally thousands of books, articles, and research papers have been written. Considering this weight of research, “pet theories” abound, with as many different ideas on how and what to do as there are HR leaders in different organizations. Join Dr. Henryk Krajewski, a recognized leader in BOTH the research and practice of talent assessment and development to share a unifying view of what matters most in selecting – and keeping – the best talent. Dr. Krajewski will distinguish what matters from what doesn’t, dispel popular myths about talent, and help you focus in on winning strategies that will help you attract and retain “differentiated” talent. Specific learning objectives include: • Learning to use compelling “business-language” conversations about the importance of top talent. • Which assessment methods and tests are research supported, and an analysis of those that aren’t. • What empirical research says about the factors proven to attract high potentials. • Gaining knowledge and familiarity with the age-old psychological data that has simply been “recycled” time and time again in popular books re: engagement. • How to use technology to make all of this easier!

It is time to to archive your company's "Performance Management" practices and "Annual Review" process into the Museum of Motivation?

News Flash: Recent studies by brain scientists studying motivation also tell us that reward (yes reward) can be de-motivating. How performance reviews are structured and how supervisors and managers offer "feedback" to change behavior and improve performance is often ineffective and de-motivating.

What's an HR Director to do?

If you are a leader at any level, you already understand your people are your greatest asset. Now it's time to upgrade our approach to motivating Human Beings 3.0 from the field of brain science, at the intersection of communication, emotion and motivation.

This presentation features the best practices of high performance, values-aligned organizations. Most senior leaders put more thought into their products and services than their company’s culture, yet culture drives everything that happens in their organizations.

Executive consultant S. Chris Edmonds shares insights, examples, and case studies proving that when values and behaviors are as important as results, performance improves, morale improves, and customer service skyrockets.

A senior executive of one culture client told Chris, “I used to see my job as managing results and processes. Now I see my job as managing people’s energy.”

When an organization’s culture treats employees with the highest regard, those employees willingly apply their skills towards goal accomplishment & customer service.

Has your management team been sold on the idea that an ATS recruits people? Are you struggling with how to demonstrate your recruiting team’s impact on quality of hire? Are your other metrics (such as time to fill and cost per hire) potentially competing against your quality initiatives?

If you answered yes to any of these or are about to embark on a business case for further recruiting investment join us for a session that will help to answer these questions and give you information and tools to immediately and positively impact your side of the story. We will also discuss key quality of hire metrics from companies such as Disney Cruise Lines, Harrah’s Entertainment and others.

This webinar will help you define quality of hire for your particular organization. As a strategic outlook, quality of hire involves much more than just the hiring process. People leave an organization for various reasons. By understanding how your talent management support structure impacts the employee throughout their tenure, will give you additional ideas on how to measure your quality of hire.

We will look at utilizing 360 degree feedback at intervals to enhance the measuring of QOH. In addition, this feedback can be used to measure the impact on your employees and organization with regards to your on-boarding, training, recruiting, performance management, career development, engagement and retention. We will look at how to utilize “victory fees” which pays out on internal recruiters based on retention and performance (Note that is and not or.)

The numbers don't lie. While North American companies spend $38 billion annually on incentives for their employees, 70% are not engaged and 60% are actively looking for work citing lack of appreciation as the reason.

It’s time for a reality check - monetary incentives don’t buy workplace happiness. The age old methodology of motivation, using monetary ‘carrots’ – such as perks or financial remuneration – has a weak exchange rate with today’s knowledge worker, for whom the most valuable currency is recognition. As the Harvard Business Review explains: “Though necessary, these extrinsic motivators [perks, promotion, pay] don't necessarily excite people to work smarter or harder. Instead, they prompt employees to do only the minimum required to get that next raise or job title.

In this 60-minute webcast, David Bator, Director of Marketing & Customer Strategy will talk about the win-win that non-monetary social recognition delivers to organizations. Using customer case studies, David will demonstrate that social recognition is not only far less expensive than traditional monetary rewards programs but has also proven to be more effective in engaging a motivating knowledge workers.

In this webinar, TalentGuard will discuss why it is imperative that human resources work directly with managers and their executives to teach them how to become effective career coaches. Coaching is a tool that many organizations use to help employees grow and develop new skills. However, organizations can do a better job of creating a culture of coaching, training managers on a specific methodology and teaching them how to better engage with employees to build richer relationships.

Wouldn’t it be great if your managers and leaders could build better working relationships with their employees that resulted in increased engagement and retention? Knowing how to give managers confidence when it comes to coaching is challenging. If done properly, career coaching can help managers better align employees with your corporate goals and strategies.

Today’s companies are placing a much higher emphasis on the ability to be creative and innovative in order to move ahead in this economy. They are eagerly looking at ways people, tools and techniques can spark a rebound that gives them a competitive edge. Making innovation and creativity a key cultural value is a goal of any highly effective organization. HR can play a crucial leadership role in helping to get there.

In this lively session, participants will learn how to increase the creative intelligence of their organizations in order to stay ahead of the competition. Participants will come away with new insights, fresh perspectives, and actionable steps to make creativity and innovation meaningful cultural values within their own organizations.