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Bridging the Leadership Divide: Building High-Performance Leadership Relationships Across Generation
Today, more than ever before in our history, we are witnessing the impact of generational differences in the workplace. In many organizations leaders are struggling to find ways to bridge the divide between the four generations present. You may already be familiar with the stress caused by unproductive generational relationships in your workplace. Your ability to prepare future generations of leaders and transfer the rich experiences and knowledge of your most senior leaders to emerging ones becomes significantly impaired when these relationships struggle to coexist productively. This webcast will prepare you to think differently about how you can work effectively with multi-generational leadership relationships in your organization, enabling them to thrive together and ultimately have a positive impact on your organization’s performance.

Change Management, Internal Communication Strategy, Leader Development: The New “Ask David”
Change Management, Internal Communication Strategy, Leader Development: The New “Ask David” iPhone App from David Grossman has it All Get Internal Communications Expert Grossman and His Award-Winning Grossman Group Methodologies in the Palm of Your Hand

Organizational Fit: Defining and Selecting for your Culture
In this Webcast, Dr. Greene-Shortridge will discuss the importance of having an established organizational culture. She will share with you the best practices for defining your organizational culture that will lead to enhanced employee engagement and satisfaction for current and future employees. You will learn the basics of selecting the right applicants for your culture and how to apply this to your organization for maximum efficiency.

Breaking Through the Employee Engagement Plateau
Has your organization’s engagement level reached a standstill? While it is important to maintain engagement levels, the ultimate goal is to steadily increase your engaged population. You may be anxiously anticipating your heightened engagement results after employee survey action planning, but alternatively continue to receive limited success. Instead of hoping for success, it may be time to take another approach. Have you considered the fact that management has bore the sole responsibility of building a workforce culture of engagement? Learn more about how to correct the lopsided approach to employee engagement that has been occurring for more than 20 years. This session will also discuss tips for implementing a joint model of Engagement, and best practices on how to create a fun, Magnetic Culture® where employees want to come to work.

Managing Your Critical Talent Pools To Improve Workforce Performance
Most organizations can no longer afford to spread their HR investment indiscriminately across all workers and job types. Instead, leading firms have discovered that there are key job families that disproportionately drive business results, and targeting HR investments there can reap great dividends. This webinar discusses how leading organizations leverage integrated talent management processes and technologies to manage their critical talent pools and increase workforce and business performance.

Employee Confidence Second Quarter Update: Leveraging Insight for Better Business Strategy
This webcast will review the action-focused, performance oriented construct of Employee Confidence and how it can forecast and enhance the success of organizations. Dr. Anne Herman will share how Employee Confidence relates to multiple economic and business performance outcomes at the individual, organizational, industry and country levels. Featured in this 2nd Quarter update are analyses on U.S. Employee Confidence by industry and job type.

TEN TIPS TO MAINTAIN YOUR COMPANY BRAND DURING LAYOFFS
Managing your Employer Brand During the Recession

Time: The Next Dimension of Employee Engagement
Learn about a new approach to survey technology and engagement methodology that allows companies to listen and respond to their employees immediately, globally, accurately, and effortlessly. The result? The engagement survey is now engaging.

Culture as Competitive Advantage: How your Culture can Help Fight Talent Flight
According to recent studies, US job satisfaction is at an all-time low and 45% of employees intend to or have already begun searching for new jobs as the economy slowly recovers. Will your workplace culture enable you to retain your best talent as the market picks up? Learn how the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® use workplace culture as a competitive advantage – resulting in outperforming their peers 3:1 in terms of financial returns and 7% voluntary turnover, on average, compared to the national average of 21%. Join us for this 60-minute session and understand how to build an internal business case for investing in your workplace culture.

Team Advantage: A Complete Framework for Driving Extraordinary, Sustainable Team Transformation!
The acceleration of change in organizations, emerging needs for innovation, and alignment of values are all factors creating a need for new leadership and new ways for people to succeed. Leaders want to know how to stretch an already high - performing team, turn around a team that is underperforming or stuck, or assimilate a new leader so they have a strong start with teams that are weary of too many changes. The Team Advantage process picks up where traditional team building stops – coaching the team leader and the team through the developmental stages and giving the team the experience of genuine team transformation.

Finding the Missing Piece: Creating Person-Job Fit Interviews
Interviews are the most commonly used tool in employee selection, but if not used properly, can waste time and effort and ultimately lead to bad hiring decisions. We’ll discuss how to design employment interviews to measure critical characteristics of candidates not typically assessed by other hiring tools. Important aspects of designing an interview process will be covered including training, scoring, and maintaining procedural and scoring consistency among interviewers.

Would a Wiki Help Your Organization?
Learning and the Web 2.0 Collaboration Revolution: Would a Wiki Help Your Organization?

Transforming Talent Systems: The Mercy Behavioral Health Story
In the past six months, Mercy Behavioral Health has dramatically transformed their approach to talent. By partnering with Select International, they have developed a comprehensive competency model for all levels in the organization and have leveraged this robust competency work to drive key changes to all of their talent systems. In particular, their competency work has provided the backbone for their performance management systems, promotions processes, and comprehensive selection processes for all positions in the organization. In the coming months, this foundational competency work will be leveraged to inform their on-boarding and succession planning initiatives. Mercy Behavioral Health takes talent very seriously. By using a comprehensive and scientific approach to ensuring they have the talent systems in place, they continue to improve their position in the healthcare industry. In this webcast, we will discuss MBH’s talent strategy and provide an illustrative example of how their approach has transformed their organization-wide employee selection process.

The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
Leaders who practice exemplary leadership are more effective in meeting job-related demands and more successful in representing their groups to upper management. They create higher performing teams and foster renewed loyalty and commitment. They increase motivational levels and willingness to work hard. They reduce absenteeism and turnover. They encourage personal credibility and ethical behavior. But best of all, they inspire the people they work with and those people are, in turn, more committed, excited, energized, influential, and empowered. They will exert a positive influence on everyone in your organization. This is what The Leadership Challenge and The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership are all about.

Square Pegs, Round Holes—Aligning Your Selection Process to Drive Lean Manufacturing
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) performs tens of thousands of federal and state inspections, doling out more than $84 million in fines each year for safety violations. Increased competition across the globe puts additional pressure on manufacturers to reduce costs while improving the quality of the goods and services they produce. To do this effectively, an organization must have team members and frontline leaders who have both a passion for continuous improvement and a safety orientation. This event will detail the importance of talent for a successful manufacturing organization and of selecting the people with the skills to work effectively in teams to make Lean work.

Keys to Strategic Talent Management
Talent Management empowers employees to thrive and helps you retain your top performers. But to realize the full potential of Talent Management (TM), you must do more than just measure employee performance. Find out which critical component most TM solutions are missing and how by integrating a formal learning process, your TM initiative can quickly evolve from something tactical into something strategic.

Managing the Mobile Workforce: Proven strategies for implementing a successful flex work environment
The responsibility of launching and maintaining a workforce mobility program inevitably falls on Human Resources. While it may seem simple enough, those who have already instituted some form of a flex work initiative quickly realize there are numerous factors that can make the difference between a thriving mobile workforce and one that flounders. Join industry leading change management consultant and author Diane Stegmeier and Jeff Roof of PeopleCube as they present proven strategies for implementing and managing a flex work environment. They will draw on their consulting expertise and leverage real-world case studies to showcase the various approaches companies from around the world have employed to improve the productivity of the increasingly mobile workforce.

Performance Appraisals that Managers Will Love
Manager engagement in the appraisal process is critical to the success of ongoing performance management. Yet often the process is seen as an uncomfortable chore, with little value, instead of an important tool for development and improvement. So how can HR professionals create a tool for that works for managers and HR?

Unified Talent Management, Advancing your Strategy
Talent management is no longer an optional component of an HR strategy. Rather, it is a real business imperative with significant implications. In fact, recent Bersin & Associates research correlates corporate financial performance to implemented talent management strategies. Join us as we answer: • What is the difference between successful unified talent management efforts and those that have become the HR flavor of the month? • How have organizations taken talent management strategies to the next level and created true business impact.

Best Practices: Closing Skill Gaps with Blended Learning
In a marketplace increasingly characterized by shortages in key skills and available talent, ensuring that your workforce has the right knowledge and talent to meet your business objectives is imperative. Learn how forward-thinking organizations in the midmarket are optimizing their talent by delivering targeted training and development through blended learning programs, ensuring that learning initiatives are not just randomly assigned - they actively address identified skill gaps.

Teambuilding with Emotional Intelligence Competencies
What makes a group of people a team and want to do their best work together? In decision-making, humans first have an emotion and then seek a rationale. Emotions motivate team behavior and productivity. Teams that understand and maximize their emotional intelligence competencies have the least conflict and produce the highest quality results. They and their organization gain sustainable productivity. Learn how to identify EI competencies for your team through a powerful model and follow through to measure results.

Talent Tsunami: The Seven Waves of Change
The events of the past year have dramatically shifted HR like never before. Both destructive in nature and rich in opportunity, change is afoot. Hear about how the post-recession talent world has changed dramatically… in seven very challenging ways. As an HR professional, you must understand these seven seismic shifts if your company is to survive both the coming talent shortage and the macro changes which are shaping HR on a daily basis. Ranging from changes that are global in scope to changes hitting even the smallest company, you’ll learn how to prepare for and survive the chaos.

Move Beyond Efficient to Effective Recruiting: Focus on Quality-of-Hire and the Influence of Talent
Measuring and demonstrating the value of Talent/HR initiatives should be considered standard practice; however, this is not often the case. As more leadership teams are evaluating the cost of these practices, HR needs to examine not only the efficiency, but the effectiveness of their recruiting processes. Common practices focus on time-to-fill and cost-per-hire and less on the effectiveness of recruiting and selection processes. Dr. Herman will provide a definition of the quality of hire, as well as a suggested methodology for evaluating it. In addition, a model for leveraging the most strategic insight which will be found when examining employee, customer, and business performance data together will be presented.

Emotional Intelligence: What’s New, What’s True
Improving EQ Through Behavioral Style
Intellect and functional skills are important, but research shows that emotional intelligence is the most important factor in effective leadership. There is a proven link between emotional intelligence and measurable business results. This webinar looks at the latest research on the subject of emotional intelligence including:

Defining Your Compensation Strategy
Once your company has set its business strategy, it’s easy to get stuck trying to develop a compensation philosophy to match. We’ll help you take that next step by showing a simple approach for developing an overall strategy and getting buy-in from leaders and the rest of your company.

Rolling Out a New Hiring Process Across Locations & Divisions: Challenges Roadblocks & Opportunities
This webcast will discuss the challenges faced by HR professionals when trying to implement a selection process across a division and into multiple divisions. For instance, how do you gain buy-in from stakeholders in different locations? Do you keep the same standards across all locations, facilities, etc. even though they are geographically dispersed, with differing applicant populations and profiles? What are the logistical challenges faced? The webcast will build on the experience of internal HR professionals who have rolled out selection processes throughout multiple locations within their organization as well as across multiple divisions within the organization. In addition, you will hear the perspective of external consultants who have seen these challenges at multiple organizations and can discuss common challenges as well as unique differences.

Square Pegs, Round Holes—Aligning Your Selection Process to Boost Sales Performance
Organizations in a recent DDI survey indicate that there is a $1 million gap in sales revenue between their best performers and the rest. With aggressive growth targets and with each hiring decision potentially being a million-dollar decision, it’s critical for sales organizations to separate out top performers during the hiring process. This event will show how to define, identify, and hire the top-performing salespeople.

Mapping your Talent Management Strategy for Results
For a variety of reasons, many HR groups often struggle to formulate an “HR strategic talent management plan” that maps out their goals and priorities over the next 3-5 years, and ties these to their organization’s goals. The reasons why are varied, but the results are usually the same – without such a plan, HR teams struggle to play a strategic role in their organization and talent management activities aren't given the organizational importance they should have. Yet more and more, research by leading firms like IDC, HCI and The Hackett Group is making the link between mature, integrated talent management processes and organizational success. To truly succeed, every organization needs solid talent management programs and processes that help them make the most of their only true sustainable competitive differentiator – their workforce. This presentation from Tim Mulligan, Chief Human Resources Officer with the Zoological Society of San Diego will share lessons learned on his organization’s journey to transform their talent management processes and strategically align goals across their organization.

Insurance Alone Doesn’t Make for a Healthier America
Insurance Alone Doesn’t Make for a Healthier America: The Role of Personal Responsibility in Health Reform - whitepaper courtesy of Virgin HealthMiles.

The Facts and the Future of Online Assessment
Are you skeptical about integrating online assessments into your hiring process? Do topics such as test security, ensuring accessibility for applicants with disabilities and risks of applicant cheating have you concerned? Or are you focused on receiving more value from your process by focusing on proven practices that will help you reduce time-to-hire, increase quality of hire, positively deliver your employment brand message and attract, engage and retain Gen Y applicants? This webcast will examine how online assessments are used today to directly address these concerns and business needs, and will look to the future, covering emerging trends such as using assessments for brand promotion and how assessments may factor into the realms of the rapidly evolving virtual world and gaming technologies.

Unifying People, Processes & Systems to Engage an Enterprise – The DeVry Commons Story
Leading organizations are continually striving to find new ways to improve service delivery and competitiveness. HR leaders must be vigilant to ensure that these improvements do not come at the cost of reduced employee engagement. This presentation will uncover how strategically unifying an organization’s workforce can provide significant efficiency gains while boosting employee engagement.

High Impact Learning Programs: Why Social Learning Works
As defined in the book, The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today (Harper Business, May 2010) social learning is learning that is collaborative, immediate, relevant and presented in the context of an individual’s unique work environment. Increasingly organizations are creating internal social networks to allow employees and in some cases partners, to communicate, collaborate, innovate and tap into the collective intelligence of the global enterprise.

Skills Management - Lessons Learned From the Real World
Staying in business today depends on making the most of what you have. As we all face the “do more with less” drive to stabilize expenses or follow the old fashioned school of business to drive a bottom line profit, how can skills management prove a critical business strategy? Only by understanding the skills and competencies of the biggest line item expense and asset, your people, can you effectively deploy them to make your organization succeed in the modern economy.

Leading Across Differences: Real World Lessons for HR Managers
During this webcast presenters will discuss the growing importance of leading across social identity differences in organizations; with a focus on addressing social identity tensions. The presenters will provide a framework addressing social identity differences in organizations, reveal the five common triggers of social identity conflict in organizations, and provide information about who should act and what actions to take. In addition, a framework of leadership practices in situations where multiple identity groups are present and tips for each approach will be shared.

The Business Impact of Selecting and Retaining Top Talent
Identifying and selecting top performers is critical to an organization’s human capital strategy. But it doesn’t end there. You have to engage and retain them. Learn from two leading experts as they discuss the business impact of selecting and retaining top talent.

10 Tips for Successfully Managing a Global Workforce
Globally scattered workforces demand a new skill set for managers, executives and HR professionals and there is a critical need for those leaders to learn how to successfully manage their global workforce. Two seasoned international lawyers from Littler Mendelson will help you navigate the challenges of managing a global workforce at ease with 10 important learning tips. You will learn important global solutions that will keep your organization competitive in the world's marketplace and lessen legal risks.

Building a Talent Management Climate: The Influence on Employees’ Experiences and Attitudes
Many organizations faced unprecedented challenges over the last 24-36 months. As a result, some organizations have reduced or altered their development programs. Organizations who continued to focus on employee development, even in the face of the difficult times, realized a return on their investment through employee experiences and attitudes. Analyses showing the influence of talent management on employee attitudes and performance will be presented along with implications for putting these practices into place will be discussed.

How Leaders Drive Workforce Performance: Global Research Highlights and Leadership Best Practices
Many employees are disgruntled. Some are expressing pent up frustrations about how they have been treated through the downturn. The result is a disengaged workforce. Engaged employees have productivity rates that are 70% higher than those who are not and they are 44% more profitable, resulting in 86% higher customer satisfaction. The demand for demonstrated leadership capability is urgent. Leaders directly impact employee performance and contribution. Do your leaders have the skills and competencies to be effective?

How to Develop a Successful Retail HR Strategy using Workforce Management Best Practices
In this webinar, we will discuss retail’s unique labor requirements and how the use of workforce management helps to enable and support an organization’s HR strategy. Recruitment requirement calculations, candidate selection criteria, and compliance risk mitigation are just some of the benefits that can be derived by the presence of a well thought out labor definition and management process.

Bridging the Leadership Divide: Building High-Performance Leadership Relationships Across Generation
Today, more than ever before in our history, we are witnessing the impact of generational differences in the workplace. In many organizations leaders are struggling to find ways to bridge the divide between the four generations present. You may already be familiar with the stress caused by unproductive generational relationships in your workplace. Your ability to prepare future generations of leaders and transfer the rich experiences and knowledge of your most senior leaders to emerging ones becomes significantly impaired when these relationships struggle to coexist productively. This webcast will prepare you to think differently about how you can work effectively with multi-generational leadership relationships in your organization, enabling them to thrive together and ultimately have a positive impact on your organization’s performance.

High-Impact People Strategies for 2010: Seven New Imperatives for HR Professionals
The world of Human Resources and Training is undergoing tremendous change. The economy is starting to grow and businesses are now focused on innovation, growth, organizational development, and recruiting. At the same time, today’s HR and training managers must deal with the need for onboarding, reskilling employees, driving ever-high levels of employee engagement, and new tools for staffing and recruiting. In this webinar, Josh Bersin, CEO of Bersin & Associates, a leading industry analyst firm, will highlight the seven major new imperatives for HR, and discuss how new HR technology platforms enable HR to reach the “fourth stage” of business value.

Applied Critical Thinking: A 3-Phase Approach to Developing Problem Solvers & Efficient Thinkers
If you’re not developing your employees’ ability to apply critical thinking skills, then you’re missing a huge opportunity. Improved critical thinking skills lead to more effective problem-solving, well-reasoned decisions, improved strategic thinking, and better planning and implementation in your organization. We’ll show that critical thinking is definitely a skill to be developed - one that reaps huge benefits when applied to specific organizational challenges.

Tactical Transparency
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Developing Emotional Intelligence Using the Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment
The session will provide a brief overview of the Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment (EISA) model and its application in developing emotional intelligence in organizations.

Square Pegs, Round Holes—Aligning Your Selection Process to Improve Customer Service
A satisfied customer tells three people about a good experience. If you’re lucky, your dissatisfied customers will tell only a dozen, and he’ll give you another shot. If you’re not lucky, he’ll vent his dissatisfaction on the Internet for the world to read, and never return. With new and aggressive competitors waiting to take some of your business, customer satisfaction is essential to maintaining a customer base and attracting new clientele. This event will focus on identifying and hiring the right people who can deliver exceptional customer service.

Economic Conditions are Improving: Is Employee Confidence?
This webcast will review the action-focused, performance oriented construct of Employee Confidence and how it can forecast and enhance the success of organizations. Dr. Anne Herman will share how Employee Confidence relates to multiple economic and business performance outcomes at the individual, organizational, industry and country levels. Featured in this 1st Quarter 2010 update are analyses on U.S. Employee Confidence by industry and job type.

Practical Applications and Recommendations for HR and OD Professionals in the Global Workplace
In this session, Kyle Lundby, Ph.D., will present findings from his edited volume, Going Global: Practical Applications and Recommendations for HR and OD Professionals in the Global Workplace (2010, Jossey-Bass). Drawing from chapters covering the employee lifecycle, he will present the key takeaways on important topics such as global recruitment, selection, onboarding and leadership development. Recognizing that no two global organizations are the same, he will also present a framework for thinking about and classifying global organizations. Understanding where one fits in this framework has implications for HR strategy and day-to-day practices. Finally, he will touch on important issues such as the influence of national culture, work-family balance and maximizing international assignee success.

Learning to Lead Through Adversity: Leveraging the power of vulnerability, trust and authenticity
This webinar explores the challenge of learning to lead with authenticity in the face on constant change and uncertainty. Developing the capacity to lead in the face of adversity is less about finding a best practice model or crafting the ultimate set of competencies; and more about helping executives understand, own and share who they are - both as leaders and as people. It’s about cultivating leadership as a way of being rather than a template for doing. Dr. Bunker will discuss intervention efforts designed to build authentic leadership capacity in difficult times, and present a model for understanding and diagnosing the paradoxical leadership competencies that make a difference.

Square Pegs, Round Holes—Aligning Your Selection Process with Health Care Business Drivers
Patient satisfaction is more than just a measure of how happy your patients are. It’s a revealing statistic that reflects everything from quality of care to the engagement of your workforce. It also affects your bottom line, as satisfied patients are more likely to return to your organization for care, and to refer others. This event will explore the critical need for health care organizations to identify and hire the best people who can deliver the best care and promote patient satisfaction.

The HR Shift: Taking HR to the Next Level
HR has changed, hasn’t it? Mr. Millner will examine how HR has to change its approach from being operationally based to truly adding commercial value as a key support function in today's environment. By examining current perceptions of HR, drivers causing the shift and the business case for change, this session will answer why the ‘Shift in HR’ has not yet happened. Advice for making this change will be provided, including an overview of the HR Shift Model and the specific ways that HR can add value to the organisation and the methods for measuring success once the shift has been made.

The New Landscape of Improving Performance in the Workplace
Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume Handbook of Improving Performance in the Workplace, takes participants through the New Landscape of Performance Improvement and, in a relaxed interview format, shows how to HPT to identify appropriate solution systems; define performance problems and opportunities through Performance Analysis and select various interventions; explain new theory, research, and practice of Instructional Design as it really is used today; and explain the role of measurement and evaluation in the current and future workplace, including organizational readiness, design and implementation of measurement and evaluation initiatives, and the challenge of using new technologies.

How Corporate Responsibility and Environmentally Friendly Business Practices Return the Investment
Is corporate responsibility (CR) and environmental business practices simply a fad? Using data from the Kenexa Research Institute, Dr. Anne Herman will illustrate how organizations that focus on these initiatives can increase its competitive advantage when hiring and retaining employees, build more engaged and confident employees and improve its performance outcomes more than those organizations that do not actively participate in sustainable business practices. Dr. Herman will share trends in employee opinions regarding CR across both countries and industries.

Talent Management Trends in Healthcare - by Aberdeen Group
Aligning individual performance with business objectives and increasing engagement earned best-in-class organizations in the healthcare industry sizeable gains in employee performance, retention, and time to productivity. This webcast will highlight how best-in-class organizations implement successful talent management strategies and achieve performance gains both pre- and post-hire.

Gaining Strategic Advantage through Competency-based Management
Having the right talent in the right place at the right time is one of the key challenges and requirements for success in this fast-paced global economy. This presentation will provide an overview of competency-based management and how it supports organizations in achieving their strategic business goals.

Business Health Agenda 2010 to Feature Workscape Expert on Driving Employee Engagement
Business Health Agenda 2010 to Feature Workscape Expert on Driving Employee Engagement and Improving Benefits Selection

Leadership IQ’s latest white paper
Leadership IQ’s latest white paper recommends companies rethink the way they conduct employee engagement surveys: ask appropriate questions, train managers and promptly release survey results.

Renowned U.S. Personality Psychologist to Speak on Employee Engagement at the World Forum on HR
Dr. Robert Hogan will travel to Monterrey, Mexico March 11-12, 2010 to offer his expertise on employee engagement at the World Forum on Human Resources. He will discuss how managerial behavior directly affects employee engagement.

Halogen Software Honoured as Employer of Choice for Second Consecutive Year
Talent Management Leader Named to Top 50 Small and Medium Employers in Canada

Four in Five Departing CEOs Stay Active in Business
Study Throws Greater Light on CEO Careers

Employees Immediately Discover Hidden Profits with More or Less Inc. Profit Proposal Generator
Employees Company-Wide Immediately Discover Hidden Profits with More or Less Inc. Profit Proposal Generator (PPG)

Communication Solutions for HR Professionals WP
Improve Productivity and Employee Morale with the Right Business Technologies

New Leadership IQ White Paper Reveals Shortcomings of Typical Employee Surveys
Leadership IQ offers best practices for improving employee surveys, making them more effective, leading to more engaged and productive employees

How Smart Companies Make Their Business Work Better
Email, Texts, IMs, and Communications

Learning Solutions - A New Approach to Making Organizational Training Stick!
As the economy recovers, workers will be seizing the chance for change and advancement. So how can you motivate and retain your top performers? Drive engagement and retention Corporate-sponsored learning is rated as one of the most effective employee-retention tools available. Successful employers motivate their top performers with a commitment to continuous learning and professional growth, investing in the development of their knowledge, skills and abilities. Join us as we discuss how organizations can motivate and retain top performers

Morehead Presents Webinar on “Building Employee Engagement in a University Healthcare Environment”
Exploring Differences in Key Drivers of Workforce Commitment/Engagement

An Instant Bestseller: Larry Myler’s Indispensable by Monday Hits Stores
Author Hits Critical Job and Business Issues Head on, with Instant Results

Harnessing the Energy of Change Champions
Peter Drucker once said, "whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission."

The State of the Employer-Employee Contract
Once upon a time, the psychological contract between employer and employee hinted at lifelong employment. Employees would have the expectation of continued employment as long as they continued at a specific performance level. Over the years, expectations have changed for both employees and employers. At a very basic level, the employee-employer relationship is based upon exchange. This webcast will explore the current nature of the employment contract from the viewpoint of employee opinions. Information will be shared to help attendees better understand employees’ beliefs and expectations related to employee retention. Analyses featured in this webcast will be based on employee tenure, job type and level and industry.

Avoid Assessment Vendors: Instead Select a Partner
There are many testing and assessment vendors out there – but not all of them have your best interests in mind. Join us for this one hour webcast where we will discuss how Cascades selected an assessment partner that worked with them to align their human capital goals with their business strategies. In this webcast, we will discuss how you can sift through the endless sea of vendors to find a partner that is right for your organization. We will discuss the pitfalls to avoid and the key areas to discuss when evaluating assessment providers. As this is a decision that will affect your organization on many levels, proper evaluation is a must.

Developing Leaders for the Emerging Markets
The post-recession business environment faces the growing challenge of understanding how to expand into the emerging markets at an accelerated pace. As Western businesses try to make sense of the diversity in culture, economics, history and social behavior across the fast-growing and emerging markets, they realize that there is no one style of leadership that fits every culture and country. They are left wondering, “How do we develop leaders for the Emerging Markets?” This presentation will explore how to develop leaders so your organization can succeed as you expand your global footprint, lead the new workforce and maximize your organization’s investment into these rapidly changing markets.

TEN TRENDS TO TEST CEOs IN NEW DECADE
Challenges for Leaders Will Multiply, Intensify

Service Awards: Six Missteps Businesses Make and How to Turn them into WOW!s
Could your company’s service award program be performing at a higher level and reaping greater returns for your business? Find out if your service recognition program is keeping pace with today’s best practices. If you’re just getting started with a service recognition program, this presentation will help you ensure that your program gets off on the right foot.

Workplace Guru and Author Daniel Pink and Globoforce Team Up
Workplace Guru and Author Daniel Pink and Globoforce Team Up to Share Bold Ways to Transform Employee Engagement Free, live webinar on January 28 to offer attendees expert insights, tips, and advice on employee recognition, rewards, and motivation

Webinar Highlights Success of FedEx Latin America in Increasing Employee Engagement
Webinar Highlights Success of FedEx Latin America in Increasing Employee Engagement, Decreasing Employee Turnover FedEx Latin America implements 360-degree evaluation tool and gains valuable insight about leadership strengths and areas for improvement

Endeavour Enterprises N.V. Announce its New Management & Leadership Blog
Endeavour Enterprises N.V. the Dutch-based management firm announced today its management blog moving from test phase to fully operational.

Employer Satisfaction with Health Insurers is Declining, Finds PricewaterhouseCoopers Study
Employers in the United States have become less satisfied with their health insurers, according to a study released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute. Hit hard by the recession, employers of all sizes are taking a critical look at their health benefits strategy and the value they derive from it. They are looking to their health plan providers for information, technology and strategies to help reduce waste in healthcare spending and better engage employees in managing their health.

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How to Accelerate Organizational Performance and Improve Job Satisfaction

Herman Trend Alert: Job Satisfaction-Unemployment-Job Growth
Just because employees are not leaving does not necessarily mean that they are engaged. In fact, studies tell us over 45% of today's workers are disengaged, costing their employers millions.

Organizational inclusion: What is it, and why should we care about it?
As diversity in the labor force continues to increase, it's more important than ever for HR execs to understand the conditions under which diversity "works." Toward this end, research and practice have shifted from a focus on diversity to inclusion. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Cornell University Professor Lisa Nishii discuss several important dimensions of inclusion. Participants in this must-see webinar will learn:

a model of organizational inclusion

three primary dimensions of the model: fairly implemented employment practices; a work environment/culture that is open to differences; and inclusion in decision-making

how research findings attest to the power of creating inclusive organizations

JWT INSIDE Sweeps the iNOVA Awards in Careers/Recruitment Category
JWT INSIDE, one of the world’s leading recruitment marketing and employee communications companies, was honored with six iNOVA Awards, sweeping the Careers/Recruitment Category and winning Grand Prize in Employment Opportunity. The iNOVA awards, sponsored by MerComm, Inc., honor the world’s best corporate Web sites, representing world-class achievement. Entries competed with over 200 submissions from 11 countries around the world.

JWT INSIDE Sweeps the iNOVA Awards in Careers/Recruitment Category
JWT INSIDE Sweeps the iNOVA Awards in Careers/Recruitment Category, Grabs Majority in Intranets and Wins Grand Prize JWT INSIDE, one of the world’s leading recruitment marketing and employee communications companies, was honored with six iNOVA Awards, sweeping the Careers/Recruitment Category and winning Grand Prize in Employment Opportunity. The iNOVA awards, sponsored by MerComm, Inc., honor the world’s best corporate Web sites, representing world-class achievement. Entries competed with over 200 submissions from 11 countries around the world.

New Research Connects Employee Engagement and Pride to Business Growth
New research released today by Chicago-based Human Capital Management Consulting Firm, HR Solutions, Inc., found employee pride to be at a high level according to their international database.

With record low employee satisfaction, employers need to think out of the box to boost morale
With record low employee satisfaction, employers need to think out of the box to boost morale, drive engagement Tips and Tactics for Engaging your Employees in Tough Times

Building a Culture of Personality
Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games

5 new HCM concepts that could have legs in 2010!
A few HCM concepts I've been noodling on for some time ...

Building Real Accountability: A Tool Kit for Leaders at all Levels
Accountability. A term that is trendy and often over-used, but seems to be consistently on every leaders mind! Everyone wants and needs their employees to care about and “own” their work----individual projects and goals, work quality and overall business results. This webcast is designed to give attendees practical, real-world tools to make 2010 the year of accountability in any organization.

Driving Workforce Effectiveness and (Re-)Engagement in 2010
Recent research has shown that organizations are successfully revitalizing workforce engagement by increasing their investment in technology and processes for learning management, performance management, career development, and succession planning. These four functions are rapidly becoming the centerpiece of integrated talent management.

FedEx Latin America Increases Employee Engagement, Decreases Employee Turnover
FedEx Latin America implements 360-degree evaluation tool, increases employee morale and productivity, and decreases employee turnover.

ENGAGEMENT EXPO 2010 TO EXPLORE HOW ENGAGEMENT STRENGTHENS CUSTOMER, EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIPS
Loyalty 360 - The Marketer's Loyalty Association Bringing Together Leading Experts to Explore How Social Marketing, Emerging Media Help Companies Turn Loyalty Into Trust, Engagement

Leading and Managing in Turbulent Times: Thunderbird’s Global Leadership Certificate Program
In this Webinar with Thunderbird School of Global Management's Caren Siehl, Ph. D., you will get an intriguing look into what makes a successful global leader. As academic director of Thunderbird's Leading & Managing in Turbulent Times: Global Leadership Certificate Program, Dr. Siehl shares insightful analysis about leading in cross-cultural environments. Learn how to successfully, but flexibly, maintain your corporate culture during global expansion - and discover tips and techniques for leading successfully during times of change. Dr. Siehl's casual teaching style and effective use of real-world examples make this Webinar not only of great interest to managers in global corporations, but extraordinarily applicable to your current on-the-job cross-culture challenges.

This webcast has been approved for 1.0 International credits through HRCI

Diamond H Recognition Expands Services Offered in Employee Recognition Training and Analytics
Theresa Harkins, a recognized industry leader in learning and training joins Diamond H Recognition as Director of Organizational Learning & Analytics

The Value of Integrated Talent Management
Cliff Carlson, 2x Client Programs Director, will review Kenexa’s newest product offerings, Kenexa 2x, and the value of having an integrated talent management program. Kenexa 2x is a full service, cutting edge application suite, featuring powerful and flexible modules that create a seamless employee experience, improve workforce engagement and drive high performance for organizations. Mr. Carlson will spend time discussing the advantages of unifying organizational talent records and the long term values that are added through Human Resource business success.

Thunderbird International Consortia: An Opportunity for Three Dimensional Learning
With globalization accelerating at an exponential rate, acquiring the knowledge and capability to achieve sustainable business success is paramount. Further, the challenge of leadership retention and succession planning becomes more urgent with the imminent retirement of baby boomers and the acquisition and development of new millennial talent. Thunderbird’s Professor Michael Moffett, Academic Director of the Thunderbird International Consortia Programs, will discuss the trends in global business and the implications of those trends to HR leadership. Moffett will also present the three dimensional learning model that has proven successful for companies throughout the world, leveraging cross industry, cross function and cross cultural insights which have led to not only success stories in individual leadership development, but also organizational transformation.

Employee Confidence: Q409 Update
This webcast will review the action-focused, performance oriented construct of Employee Confidence and how it can forecast and enhance the success of organizations. Dr. Anne Herman will share how Employee Confidence relates to multiple economic and business performance outcomes at the individual, organizational, industry and country levels. Featured in this Q409 update is analyses on U.S. Employee Confidence by industry and job type. Included in the presentation are the latest Employee Confidence results across the 12 largest economies of the world: Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

SPIRITUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE
This is the spiritual season. Spirituality is a broader and more encompassing notion.

Engagient Releases Third Generation Employee Engagement Assessment Tool
Zywave Names James Emling as President From software intern to executive vice president, solid track record leads to new appointment