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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!

Welcome to a workshop that is inspirational and will provide you with information and thought provoking ideas that you can use.

For decades, research and ongoing workplace surveys around the world, have explored what makes companies, leaders and teams great. Analysis of the results show data patterns and identified one question that showed the greatest correlation to the most positive business outcomes:

At work, do you have the chance to do what you do best every day?

This inspirational and informative “Leading from Strengths” event will allow you to understand why investing in Strengths returns the greatest ROI on performance and talent management. It may challenge your thinking and the myths you have likely believed for many years.

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.)

In Part 1 of this 2 part presentation, Jeremy Tozer examined a clear strategic role for HR in enabling the creation of the conditions for organizational success. In particular Jeremy examined the role of HR / learning and development in:

• Developing and sustaining organizational leadership capacity as the primary source of strategic competitive advantage.
• Enabling effective development and execution of business strategy and the leadership of change and transformation —this includes ensuring both work alignment and people engagement.

In this second part, Jeremy will give a quick recap of Part 1 and then examine in detail a proven approach to developing this form of collective leadership capability, an approach which also concurrently develops individual leadership behavior and emotional intelligence —an approach which is guaranteed to more than pay for itself with a measurable financial return on investment.

This will be illustrated with detailed and ROI quantified case studies from Cisco, and consulting assignments from across the USA, Asia, Europe and Australasia with other clients such as ABN AMRO, Pfizer, Philips and MCI.

Participants in this webinar should review the archive of Part 1 at this link http://www.hr.com/en/webcasts_events/webcasts/archived_webcasts_and_podcasts/strategic-hr-enabling-leaders-to-drive-strategy-ex_habeg7ec.html

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. In the business world, however, the only absolute is the starting point and the line is never straight. Navigating your way to success requires a solid team of employees and a solid strategy. Organizational planning means knowing who you have, how they’re helping or hurting your business’s growth, and the best way to align them to realize your company objectives. This process of evaluating and re-evaluating talent helps organizations identify gaps and redundancies, manage workforce changes more effectively, and increase productivity. In short, organizational planning keeps businesses moving forward while also preparing them for the road ahead.

THIS IS A DEMO - NO CERTIFICATION CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN.

Building a staff of well-recruited, well-trained employees is only the beginning of your company’s journey. Things change – constantly. And being able to deal with that change and emerge a better organization is the goal of any business.

To do so you need to know where your top performers are within your organization, what characteristics make them your leaders, and how to strategically position them alongside the rest of your people to get the most out of everybody.

It’s hard to identify strong employees without first being able to visualize your entire workforce. That’s why having an organizational structure is step one. When a defined hierarchy is in place, usually in the form of an organizational chart, employees know who does what and who reports to whom. It also makes the company better prepared to make staffing decisions that improve operational efficiency and spur growth.

A thoroughly refined organizational structure can also provide guidance when it comes to handing out promotions, crafting development plans, and managing other employee changes.

No matter how hard you look at your org chart, you won’t glean much from names, titles and reporting relationships alone. You need pertinent workforce metrics and lots of them. This information allows you to identify employees who are helping you achieve your goals, those who may need a gentle push in the right direction, and those who are keeping your company from achieving ideal success.

Now that you’ve pinpointed the cream of your company crop, you can make well-informed decisions regarding where they fit into the organizational structure. And when things inevitably get shaken up, you’ll be better prepared to handle it.

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.

THIS IS A DEMO - NO CERTIFICATION CREDIT WILL BE GRANTED.

Ongoing feedback is essential for a high-performing workforce, yet so many organizations fall short in providing good feedback. And the research tells us that's a bad idea because feedback has a huge impact on employee engagement levels in your organization (Gallup). For example, managers who:

• Focus on employee strengths are 30 times more likely to manage actively engaged workers compared with managers denying feedback
• Focus on employee strengths are one third more likely to manage actively engaged employees compared with managers focusing on weaknesses
• Give little or no feedback fail to engage 98 percent of their workers

The good news is that there are great tools available in the Halogen Talent Management Suite™ to make feedback easier for managers and more meaningful for employees.

Learn more by attending our upcoming webinar:

Date: February 5, 2013
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET
Demo Expert: Sean Conrad, Senior Product Analyst, Halogen Software

What you’ll learn

In this Halogen Talent Management Suite™ demo, attendees will discover:

• How easy it is to provide feedback, recognize your employees, and improve engagement using Halogen eAppraisal™ and Halogen e360 Multirater™
• Features designed to help foster a feedback culture including Halogen Feedback Central™, a new tool that makes it easy for organizations to use feedback and drive higher performance
• How feedback can be used use across all talent functions, including performance reviews, succession, training and development, and more

Please plan to join us to learn how you can foster a feedback culture in your organization!

Register now.

For the first time in history there are four generations of leaders in the workplace. Each group has a vastly different way of communicating, differing ways of thinking about work, and under it all is a truly unique set of needs and values. These differences shape each generation's approach to their work as leaders and managers. Join our panel of leadership experts and HR executives as they explore who does what best and how HR and learning professionals are leveraging the strengths and addressing the weaknesses of each group. We will investigate what generations want from their careers, how Leaders can support these career conversation and examine the similarities and differences between the generations. We will also discuss the techniques and philosophies that are helping organizations around the globe prepare their multi-generational leaders for the increasingly complex and quickly changing workplace.