Upcoming Webcasts

Do you ever wonder how the most successful organizations establish their position at the top? The secret behind every successful organization are the leaders! To achieve this level of success, individuals who follow the 10 critical steps to becoming a magnetic leader will have their organization on track to be the best it can be. Magnetic leaders understand themselves, their organization and their employees, they encourage innovation and creativity, they have great engagement techniques, and establish a culture that is hard to replicate. Attend this session to discover the 10 critical steps to becoming a magnetic leader within your organization!

“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.

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!

Fifty to 60% of companies fail to achieve their goals and objectives (Source: McKinsey & Co and IBM Global Business Services). What can be done about this and whose responsibility is it to see that the situation improves? The first question is why does this happen with the answer being because employees don’t know what they need to do to help the company achieve its goals and objectives, and/or because they are too preoccupied with personal issues to do what is expected of them. The responsibility for this rests with the CEO, however he or she can’t do what is needed alone. While Human Resources should be the obvious choice to address this problem it is not viewed as a “line” function as often as it is “staff”, and as a result, they are not called upon to help with goal achievement. This presentation discusses both the problem (why companies fail to achieve their goals and objectives) as well as what HR can do to gain the trust of senior management regarding their contribution to the overall effort.

Sylvia Hewlett’s new book Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career (Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming, September 2013), reveals how women and people of color can find and maintain a relationship with a powerful champion who will inspire, propel and protect them through the perilous straits of upper management. Based on the research and her book, Sylvia will provide best practices of how companies can foster sponsorship and provide case examples of the most effective programs that help ensure that the most diverse, as well as most qualified, talent gets in on the game—and changes the face of leadership. During this program you will learn: - the sponsorship imperative - how to generate awareness and understanding of the sponsorship dynamic - how senior management can meet and engage with up-and-comers Join Sylvia Hewlett as she explores the dynamics of this vital relationship.

Improving employee engagement is a strategic objective for more than 80% of organizations today. Research shows that self-managing employees and team working in collaborative environments creates higher engagement and produces superior results. It is the new leadership model in the knowledge based economy. The current leadership model is proving ineffective because employee engagement levels are stalled and the typical performance management tools are equally dreaded by both managers and employees. This webinar explains the key elements needed to create self-managing team and self-managing employees. It will provide you with an introduction to self-management techniques that will help to create that ideal workplace. You will learn why your current leadership model is inadequate, new leadership model and set of tools that will enable leaders to improve their ability to facilitate optimum employee engagement and development and specific steps to start the evolution for yourself and your team.

Workplace grief costs U.S. businesses billions of dollars a year in reduced productivity and increased errors and accidents, yet the word grief rarely shows up in reports. In The Hidden Annual Cost of Grief in America’s Workplace 2003 report, the keyword in the title of this report is the word "hidden." It is just that factor that has caused the problem to escalate to now unimaginable proportions and it is the essential reason that it is getting worse rather than better. In this presentation we will address the definition of grief, the grief/workplace connection, the cost of "presenteeism" to corporations and we will discover how managers and other employees can support coworkers who have experienced personal loss.