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

We all know that no employee learns from a single exposure to a training. Indeed, within two hours, more than 50% of content is forgotten, and within a week, 95% is forgotten. It is no wonder training seldom results in transfer to the workplace.

This webinar will review four important techniques that overcome the forgetting curve. These techniques include booster quizzing, social elaboration, strategic coaching, and depth of processing.

In this hands-on webinar, we will teach HR professionals techniques to incorporate these techniques into both their formal and informal trainings. Within a week, your trainings will be significantly more effective and transfer will increase.

Workplace mental health issues present significant costs to Canadian businesses. Estimates are as much as $1,494 per person per year. How much does that add up to at your organization? These costs are not obvious, and are hidden in places like turnover, drug plans, absence, disability claims and presenteeism. However, they can be tackled while also improving employee engagement—if you have an integrative mental health program.

Whether your goal is to understand the impact of the recently released National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, to develop a new strategy and plan or to improve what you are doing now, this webinar will provide the guidance you are looking for. Three industry experts will demonstrate how an approach that is measurable, integrative and flexible is able to deliver financial ROI and employee engagement.

Our presenters will identify successful approaches to identifying risks, building a business case, increasing leadership awareness and developing and training people managers and employees. During this webinar you’ll have an opportunity to compare your mental health readiness to the average of your competitors—getting instant, confidential results—with Morneau Shepell’s free Mental Health Pulse Check tool.

Truly integrated talent management impacts every level of the business from the C-level all the way down to the last employee, leading to reduced turnover, higher revenue, and increased employee engagement.

In this 3-part webinar series, we’ll dig deeper into what specific value integrated talent systems bring to three different roles; the Business Leader (May 30th), the Manager (June 13th), and the Employee (June 27th).

Three different companies will share how integrated talent management:

• Allows senior leaders to guide their business growth
• Enables managers to better assess and develop their teams
• Makes employees feel more appreciated, encouraging them to work harder

At its most basic level, “analytics” is the look at performance metrics in order to identify cause & effect relationships that can guide future actions. But this doesn’t necessarily mean complicated and expensive software; instead it just means using root cause analysis thinking to look for patterns in the data. This presentation will provide an example of the use of root cause analysis (RCA)to look at workforce turnover, and how iterative analysis of the data can help inform our decisions. It will also discuss how HR professionals need to both understand and use RCA, but also deploy it within the organization as a basic core competency.

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.

Many traditional forms of recognition and compensation are not working and executives want to know why. It used to be easy; recognition was all about logoed, trophy-value awards that were custom-made to carry a lasting company message to predominantly Baby Boomer employees. Today, there are four distinct generations in the work force and the Millennials are demanding very different approachs to recognition and compensation … or at least that’s how it appears!

The vendors, who forever have been simply proving the “stuff” assuming that their clients know why they’re buying it and how to properly hand it out, are partly to blame. We as an industry have not done a very good job of teaching our customers the difference between recognition and compensation, how to best use these tools, and most importantly, how to measure the results and prove ROI.

Mobile technology is on the rise and has taken the globe by storm. Mobile devices -- including the smart phone, cell phone, tablet, e-reader, and MP3 player -- have become integrated with culture and society. Valuable uses for mobile devices include communicating, collaborating, retrieving information, gathering information, and managing both knowledge and learning. In this session we will examine the features, benefits, and business applications for mobile technologies. We will also consider instructional design strategies for mobile learning (m-learning). Our main goal is to explore ways in which HR professionals and those with people care responsibilities can use mobile technologies to increase employee productivity and knowledge. So join us as we discuss how "HR Goes Mobile".

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.

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.