Upcoming Webcasts

“Awaken the Sleeping Giants” poignantly speaks to the pivotal role HR plays at this crucial time. Through a deeper understanding of the upcoming talent shortage and its future implications, HR will be compelled to claim their place at the boardroom table. It will mean partaking in company direction, strategy and equipping the corporate culture with the “Attraction Factor”. HR will have to “stand in the gap” to create a sea-change in thinking, new levels of conscious intention and developing company culture by design rather than by default.

This powerful talk is a must-attend for HR Professionals interested in their organization’s survival.

In 2013, the landscape for enterprise learning solutions is incredibly fluid and fast-paced. The trends that are driving technology everywhere — data, mobile, cloud, social — also apply to learning. How are these trends changing the learning and HR community? What are the opportunities that you should focus on first?

In this webinar titled “Next Generation Learning”, Steve Parker, SPHR will highlight five ideas that your learning strategy must address, including:

• Best practices for process and technology integration
• Mobile learning to drive pervasive employee development
• Rapid content development for contextual learning
• Extending learning to customers and distributors to build relationships and mindshare
• Using development to power talent retention

Succession planning is completely reliant on preparedness. In order to be completely prepared for the full gamut of possibilities, especially when we are working on a global level, we must be able to identify and benchmark global roles based on environment and business goals. This means creating frameworks that account for global competencies, and are based on those specifically defined global roles as well.

After this framework is established, we then focus on our talent pool, a list of high potential employees that can be identified by their performance review scores and multi-rater assessments, learning gaps and timing.

Then comes the global development plan, which we'll discuss in more detail during the presentation, and how to accurately and effectively measure your progress along the way.

In order for organizations to increase the effectiveness of their learning programs, they first have to benchmark the learning transfer and performance impact of each one. Many organizations have a number of implemented learning programs that have been in place for years, but sometimes have little-to-no evidence that they truly impact performance. The days of that scenario are numbered, as learning analytics and business impact metrics become more prevalent.

This session will include a case study showing how leveraging new learning models, including online simulations and game-based elearning, increased proficiency in critical soft skills/business skills over previously-implemented traditional learning programs.

Same skills, taught differently, resulted in improved performance.

Did you know that within the first 48 hours of your employees attending a traditional training or learning event, their knowledge retention drops to 33 percent? Did you also know that research now shows that nearly 80 percent of learning in the workplace takes place informally? So why are training departments still spending the vast majority of their budgets on formal training efforts? Informal Learning has become all the rage over the past 5 years in the Learning and Development industry. As we’ve taken a closer look at this powerful discipline we’ve learned that Informal learning can actually be “formalized”, tracked, measured, and implemented through Performance Support. This session will address the methodologies behind designing, implementing, and maintaining effective Performance Support (learning while doing), and how it is now, more than ever, all around us!

Flipped learning—courseware and recorded content serving as the initial element of a learning experience, with live virtual sessions and social and collaborative tools supplementing and enhancing the learning experience—has the potential to increase learning effectiveness, lower operational costs, and get better retention and more effective application of the learning. The model has created tremendous buzz in the education community, but is it viable for business learning? We believe that effective use of the flipped learning model can transform business learning, improve learning outcomes, and reduce operational costs. Participants in this session will examine the flipped classroom model, learn how to build one, and hear case studies of businesses that are now delivering in this new model.

A growing realization that too many strategic development intentions quickly become ill-fitting and cumbersome, out of date and even misleading, has led to the realization that more dynamic cost-effective processes are needed in today’s competitive and demanding business environments. As a consequence and with foresight, G-ACUA, led by Chairman Richard Dealtry, has resourced and developed open management processes that are more suitable and befitting for success in these rapidly and persistently changing contexts. A rigorous search for high return on investment practice solutions, based upon a unique combination of quantum theory and high level concept corporate university thinking, has resulted in the world’s first holistic reality HR strategic management program that optimizes HR portfolio resource decisions and their timely management with the expectations of shareholders. How this exciting and important outcome was accomplished will be defined at this event and the path to the acquisition of related disciplines will be described.

Restless Gen-Y workers - often faced with unfulfilling or static positions - frequently leave their posts within two years. But as Millennials become the dominant generation in the office - set to represent 75 percent of the entire workforce by 2025 - companies must learn to keep them engaged and motivated by creating more opportunities for them. How can corporations retain young workers? In this presentation geared toward HR leaders and managers, speaker Dan Schawbel shares advice, research, case studies (including Sodexo, Ernst & Young, Intel, DreamWorks, and more), and examples to illustrate how employers can both attract and manage Gen-Y workers to allow them to rise up to leadership positions instead of leaving for other opportunities.

Become an Executive Priority by Thinking Strategically and Proving HR's Leadership Relevance! Understand Executive Priorities, Design Organizational Initiatives that solve business issues, and produce metrics to measure program efficiency! The time is now for Human Resources to take the organizational driver's seat and guide strategic change. In this session we will arm you with the ability to articulate board room speak on the issues that genuinely matter to your employees. HR is the voice of the organization and your Executives are ready to listen. So what about your employees? The workforce is looking for engaging technology, fresh program branding, rewards that matter, and Global consistency. Commoditized employee rewards programs are a waste of valuable organizational funds....it's time to stop thinking about program budgets and start thinking about driving revenue!