Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

As our economy begins to get back on track – more companies are hiring and there are a whole lot of possible candidates to choose from. How do you go about finding the Right people for the Right jobs? How do you sort through all the hay to get to that perfect needle?

We will show.

In this webinar you will learn how to hire the right people the first time - get those you hire placed into the right jobs by utilizing a customized benchmarking process, in-depth personal assessments, a healthy dose of Emotion Intelligence, and a whole lot of effective coaching so you can build an atmosphere of creativity and accountability for your client or your employer.

This session will provide a background on how lean thinking and tools can help safety and any HR function. Following the teachings of W. Edwards Deming, Toyota created a production system, now commonly referred to as lean production. What is not well understood is that “lean” works in any office and business, regardless of size. Whether healthcare, small enterprise, food service, or non – profit, “lean” can help improve teamwork, culture and drive continuous improvement, but only if we go back to basics and strip away the mystery that this thinking is only for the manufacturing floor. Participants in the session will gain new insight into both “how” and “why” standards should be developed.

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 session is an overview and introduction to Motivation-Based Interviewing. MBI is a 15 year-old interviewing method specifically designed for identifying and hiring high achievers. Traditional behavior-based interviewing focuses almost solely on an applicant's level of skill. This approach has a long history of producing hit-and-miss hiring results. Why? Because it takes more than just skill to succeed! MBI assesses all 3 of the components common to top performers that enable them to achieve above-average results, yet requires no extra interviewing time. The 3 components MBI assesses are - skill, attitude and passion! Please note, this session includes a powerful video that’s not available in an archived version.

“Profitable Cultures” refers to company culture that facilitates necessary business results while profiting all stakeholders – employees as well as customers and shareholders. In this program, we’ll uncover what's required of leaders in order to cultivate a profitable culture.

More than any other person, it is the leader who sets the culture. Not by what he or she proclaims in an annual all-hands meeting, but through WHO he or she is everyday and HOW he or she engages with others everyday. Who do the members of the organization know their leader to be? How effectively does he or she model the qualities of the desired culture?

Topics covered in this course include:

• Five fundamentals of Profitable Cultures
• Three tools for greater clarity & alignment
• Trust, courage, & leader vulnerability
• Leader intention: what qualities, values, and behaviors must I model for my organization?
• Three components of Skillful Dialogue
• Listening, Curiosity, & Seeking First to Understand

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

Can you imagine the excitement people would feel coming to work every day to a company where leaders understand that building a sustainable competitive advantage is based on how leaders treat and develop their people?

Servant leadership offers hope to organizations for creating an environment of mutual trust and respect; a workplace where people can discover and reach their potential. A leadership style where leaders focus on creating a winning partnership for the people and the business; creating growth for both the people and the bottom-line. Find out how servant leadership can help your organization build a sustainable competitive advantage.

The presenter brings 38 years of real world experience in the manufacturing industry, including 26 years of senior leadership: Product Manager, Sales & Marketing Manager, VP of Sales & Marketing, VP of Operations and 13 years as President of two manufacturing companies including one with 10 manufacturing facilities in the U.S., England and Mexico. He also started his own consulting firm in April of 2010.

Anyone leading a team, company or department must be able to:

• persuade
• influence behavior
• get buy-in
• inspire

Vision, objectives, mission statements count for little if you can't clearly express them and persuade others to buy-in to them That's why having effective presentation skills is essential for the leader who is going to stand out above the crowd.

Career opportunities, personal confidence, self-esteem – all improve dramatically when you invest in upgrading presentation skills. The TalkitOut™ Technique as taught by Podium Media & Communications Coaching, is a new way of approaching presentations and speeches.

Hundreds of people around the world have become powerful speakers because of TalkitOut. TalkitOut is an indispensable tool for all leaders.

Professional sport coaches and trainers know that the strongest, most experienced athletes aren’t necessarily the best prepared ones. Top athletes also train to build mental and emotional inner strength so they can be resilient and focused, regardless of the situation. Businesses and their employees also need to have strong core confidence so they can cope with rapid market changes and personal challenges. Developing the knowledge and skills for a current or next role just isn’t enough anymore to succeed in today’s increasingly demanding global environment.

Organizations and individuals that have strong core confidence operate more effectively by eliminating the stress and distraction that a lack of trust brings in one’s self and others. Core confidence isn’t something that can be faked or embodied part-time and it’s difficult to describe. It’s a consistent state of being, an “it” factor, and a seemingly natural mojo that we all intuitively perceive and want.

This session will examine what core confidence is, why it’s so empowering and how to assess it concretely in an individual and overall organization. We’ll provide tools that immediately diagnose confidence strengths and weaknesses that will determine a core confidence conditioning strategy and plan. Participants will leave with a sustainable and scalable understanding about confidence that will fundamentally change the way they and their co-workers look at and operate in all aspects of business and life.

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.