Wednesday, July 15, 2009
10:00 am EST
Talentpalooza, a live webinar series will provide attendees with:
- Interactive discussions with industry experts and your peers
- Real world case studies from an array of industries
- Updates on the latest disruptive technology trends in talent management.
Cut through the vendor hype and marketing, and learn firsthand what your peers are doing to thrive in this challenging economy and manage their most important asset – their people! Join us for this one-day event with 10 sessions featuring Leighanne Levansaler, Bersin & Associates, NASA, Knowledge Infusion, The Walt Disney Company, Luxottica, Plateau, Accenture, HCI and more.
Recorded Webinar Archives:
What's your Workforce Reduction IQ? Redefining Talent Strategies in Uncertain Times
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
3:00 pm EST
Speakers:
Renee Romulus, Advisory Services, Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Mark Atkinson, Advisory Services, Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Smart companies have prepared more than one workforce scenario to respond to changes in the economy. Business Roundtable’s recent quarterly CEO Economic Outlook Index, which polled 100 U.S. CEOs between March 16 and March 27, indicates that 71% expect to cut their workforces over the next six months. So how can companies make reductions and realign their talent to drive their business forward? Decisiveness and agility build goodwill with talent and shareholders. This webcast tackles talent strategies for the economic downturn, so that your company emerges with a workforce competitive advantage.
- Understand fundamental organizational changes in divestitures, outsourcing, mergers, and recasting products and services
- Leverage structural and productivity metrics to harvest value and reduce costs during restructuring
- Apply data-based talent segmentation for critical retention and deployment
- Invest in upgrading talent and accelerated development of pivotal talent , high performers, and mid-level managers
- Utilize creative cost-reduction alternatives in talent management
- Ensure knowledge transfer and traction with survivors before restructuring
Compensation Strategies for Unprecedented Times
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
2pm EST/11am PST
Strategies for long-term success from an immediate perspective
In this uncertain economic climate, organizations must balance their short-term strategic concerns with solid long-term objectives. Pressing issues—managing headcount, reducing costs, setting salary increase budgets and determining incentive payouts—coexist with such longer-range strategic goals as attracting, retaining and engaging the right talent, ensuring pay for performance, maintaining an organization's consistency globally and instituting better governance of rewards.
Setting a compensation agenda that identifies priorities and delivers results for today as well as tomorrow may be the key challenge for companies. Finding the right direction requires that firms take a hard look at the myths and realities that prevail in these unprecedented times. Despite the uncertainty, they must concentrate on tactical approaches to incentives and benefits and base salaries with appropriate communication, performance management and workforce-segmentation strategies.
Don't miss this exclusive webcast featuring compensation strategies expert Steven Gross with information you need for these unprecedented times.
Filling in the big picture with the right details can spell the difference between success and failure in an unforgiving economy. This webcast will illuminate a holistic strategy for total compensation management, focusing on the long view from an immediate perspective.
Includes a Q&A session so you can ask and discuss your specific questions.
How to identify, train, and retain a talented workforce in today’s challenging times
Thursday, March 26, 2009
1:00 pm EDT
One of the biggest challenges that HR professionals are facing in the Middle East is the necessity to identify talented people within the organization, helping them develop and grow, and retaining them in the business, in a world of increasing pressure and competition. Even in the global recession, the Middle East region continues to grow and develop rapidly. This webcast will focus on helping HR Directors add value to a growing business, using a combination of Talent Identification and Management techniques. Objectives of this program:
- To share strategies to identify future leaders in your organization
- Explore strategies for talent development, retention and growth
- Implement individual development plans to help employees achieve their goals and also to close performance and competency gaps.
Top 5 Ways to Protect your Training and Development Budget in 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
1:00 pm EDT
In today’s turbulent economy, is your organization questioning the value of training and development? Has your organization put training and development investments on hold? Training and development programs must be tailored to today’s economic realities and deliver results quickly. Eliminating or cutting the training budget is short-sighted and will put your company at a disadvantage when the economy does turn around. Now more than ever, organizations must assess the talent they have in place, their skills, and the needs of the business. Training and development provide the foundation to fill the gaps in talent, skills, and business needs. Organizations would be wise not to withhold training and development costs but instead look at these programs as an investment in the company and your employees future.
In this interactive webinar, Claire Schooley, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research will provide you the top 5 ways to protect your training and development budget:
- How to identify training & development initiatives that are mission critical
- How to turn training & development into a revenue generating product for your company
- How to improve your operations to get the most out of your budget
Any training or development leader trying to protect budget in a downturn or adapt organizations to new economic challenges won’t want to miss these timely insights. Register now!
Leading Talent in Challenging Times
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
3:00 pm EDT
It's imperative to know how to energize talent to give their best at a time when their confidence and commitment is wavering. With shrinking budgets and economic constraints, organizations who survive to outlive the economic downturn will be those who focus, invest and commit to developing their talent. As a leader of today's and tomorrow's talent, are you equipped with the skills to meet the challenges in this new economy? Can you help your organization turn the corner and win in the future? This webcast will provide strategies for managing and developing leaders who can help their companies stay in the game. Any leader trying to meet the challenges of these uncertain economic times won't want to miss these timely insights.
Don't miss these webcast take always:
- Understand the types of challenges that will require different leadership
- Engage your talent to passionately pursue the organization's goals
- Identify obstacles, advantages and the change needed in this new economy
Institute a Performance-Driven Culture through “Pay-for-Performance”
Tuesday, February 18 2009
1:00 pm EST
The simplest definition of pay-for-performance is the linkage of employee performance (work quality and goals) to compensation decisions. This webinar will take a high-level look at the talent management components and processes that need to be in place in order to implement a performance driven culture through pay-for-performance.
Improve Employee/Talent Productivity and Business Performance
Tuesday, February 3 2009
1:00 pm EST
One of the largest drivers of integrated talent management is to have the ability to build individual development plans to help employees achieve their goals and to also to close performance and competency gaps. In this webinar we will provide high-level steps and suggestions on how to implement learning in conjunction with performance management.
Create and Build Pipeline for Leadership and Key Positions
Tuesday, January 27 2009
1:00 pm EST
Effective talent and succession planning gives CxOs, functional business leaders and managers, and HR the tools and processes to ensure the organization has the talent required to meet today’s and tomorrow’s business goals. This webinar will walk you through the key talent management components and processes needed to implement and effectively build a pipeline for leadership and key positions.
Unleashing the Learning Power of Your Customer Communities
Tuesday, January 27 2009
2:00 pm EST
What if you took the best community features of Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yahoo and combined those with a powerful knowledge platform?
In the era of Google, budgetary challenges and the expansion of information globally, libraries are redefining information services of the future.
WebJunction, a division of OCLC, was started in 2002 by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to provide library staff an online community to create and share information. Today, WebJunction has over 32,000 members and 19 premiere partners, providing services to libraries in the U.S.
To meet the growing needs for community members to create, learn and share, WebJunction / OCLC built and deployed a revolutionary platform that integrates social tools, content management, learning management, customer management, and virtual meeting spaces.
In this webcast, WebJunction / OCLC will provide:
- A demonstration of how these systems interact to provide a robust member community experience.
- Great tips on how to engage members in discussions, groups, content sharing, and collaborative learning development.
- And key lessons learned in how to get staff, members, executives and the library industry to become passionate participants in the robust learning community.
Phasing-in the Right Talent Management System
Wednesday, January 21 2009
1:00 pm EST
Once an organization has a solid talent management strategy in place the question becomes how to translate that strategy into an operational system. But since virtually no organization has the budget or manpower to implement all aspects of a talent management system all at once, the question becomes where to start and which components of the system to “take live” first. This webinar will provide a high-level overview of the fundamentals on how you apply a competency-based approach to create a cost-effective, multiyear plan for building a fully integrated talent management system tailored to your organization’s unique culture, business processes and strategic goals. Featured speaker Claire Rodkey, Senior HR Professional from Idaho Power Company, will provide a real-life example of how they formulated their own unique talent management strategy.
UGN a Case Study: Developing A High Performance Workforce
Thursday, January 13, 2009
3:00 pm EST
In these tough economic times competition for business remains strong but smart organizations realize that the key to success starts with their team members! UGN, Inc., a full-service provider of acoustical solutions to the auto industry, has maintained its competitive advantage by implementing a talent management strategy that the promotes motivation, advancement and retention among its workforce. It entails a combination of strong career development programs, ongoing performance management, and leading technology to maintain operational efficiencies. In this session, UGN will discuss and show examples of why this strategy was mandated by the CEO, how it was implemented across the organization, and the positive results from a team member and organizational perspective.
Tech Outlook: The Blossoming of Web 2.0
Thursday, December 11 2008
2:00 PM EST
Web 2.0 is spreading throughout government. The Commandant of the Coast Guard recently produced a YouTube video calling for his organization to embrace social networking and the need to understand how to operate in its environment. Wikis are proliferating; many agencies are blogging and creating Facebook and MySpace pages for recruiting and information gathering. A culture of engaging directly with the public is developing.
Join this webinar to learn about:
- How federal agencies are using Web 2.0 tools to further mission
- About obstacles, advantages, and the change of culture needed in this new environment
Moderated by: Allan Holmes, Executive Editor, Government Executive
Content as a Service – A New Model for eLearning Delivery
Thursday, November 20 2008
Speaker: Ed Cohen, Chief Technology Officer, Plateau Systems
When rolling out a Learning Management System (LMS), the traditional solution for online content is external content hosting. However, this “space on a box” solution only addresses part of the content problem. The maturing content needs of organizations now require a flexible solution to manage, validate, and deliver secure, effective and accurate online training with a consistent user experience.
This one-hour webinar shares a new approach for more effective eLearning: Content as a Service (CaaS). CaaS handles the entire content process including storage, management, security, validation and delivery, all with an improved user experience. Like Software as a Service (SaaS), CaaS provides ease of use, better availability, easier deployment and lower costs for delivering off-the-shelf or custom-created content.
This webinar will review the CaaS model, including Plateau’s iContent® as a real-world example of CaaS, that:
- Provides the hosting infrastructure, bandwidth & delivery, management, security and updates that are missing from a content storage solution
- Reduces content overhead and infrastructure administration
- Delivers substantial cost savings
- Ensures faster content delivery
This webinar will help you understand how CaaS solves issues surrounding the management and delivery of effective eLearning.
Better Talent Management Requires a Strategic Approach
Thursday October 30 2008
Speakers:
Zach Thomas, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research and
Greg Zanowski, Senior Director, Professional Services, Plateau Systems
People have always been an organization’s greatest asset and the key to building a competitive advantage. However, in today’s market, factors such as labor shortages, rapid skills obsolescence and high turnover have made the job of talent management more challenging. To succeed, firms must be ready and willing to embrace a more deliberate and strategic approach to optimizing their organization’s talent.
This one-hour webinar features Zach Thomas from Forrester Research sharing their Best Practices Framework for Human Capital Management, designed to help you identify areas where your talent management strategies, processes, and technologies need to mature in order to meet business objectives. In addition, Greg Zanowski from Plateau shares a competency-based approach for analyzing current and desired workforce competencies as well as "Talent Profiles" as a methodology to building or enhancing your talent management strategy.
These methodologies can help your organization to assess and improve current talent management programs or jump-start ones that are just getting off the ground.
How to Build a 3-Year Strategic Talent Management Road Map
Tuesday September 23 2008
Speakers:
Michael Brennan, Principal Consultant, Knowledge Infusion
Heidi Spirgi, President, Knowledge Infusion
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
Why is it critical to develop a talent management strategy before changing processes or implementing technologies? What can you do if you are already down the path of implementation and don’t have one? As organizations implement solutions to better manage their workforces, there is greater complexity and need for direction and accountability. Join Mike Brennan and Heidi Spirgi of Knowledge Infusion in this Talent Management magazine webinar, sponsored by Plateau, to learn:
- Steps to get you started on a talent management strategy.
- How to sell the talent management value proposition to the organization.
- The importance of a defined governance structure for decision making.
- How to get the business’ support.
- How to measure and communicate your initiatives’ success.
Developing Leaders to Develop Others
Wednesday September 17 2008
Speaker: Dr. Susan Grunin, Sr. Dir. of Organizational Effectiveness, Beacon Associates
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET
Key to success for tomorrow's leaders in this global talent economy will be their ability to develop others. In this webcast we explore best practices in developing leaders to develop others. Today's top business leaders often credit "mentors" and "coaches" people who they have worked with along their rise to the top who were instrumental and essential to their success. Part of total talent management is development yet the challenge remains, how do we develop this developmental mindset in the leaders we are training to take us into the changing horizon? Find out what the best and the brightest are doing to ensure that tomorrow's leaders are talent champions.
Improving Succession Management: Focus First on Performance Management Practices
Tuesday July 22 2008
Presented By: Leighanne Levansaler, Director of Talent Management Research, Bersin & Associates
11:00 AM PST/2:00 PM EST
Almost all companies recognize the value of performance management for meaningful employee appraisals, goal setting and development. But too often, companies don't effectively leverage performance information for succession planning. Join Leighanne Levensaler, Director of Talent Management Research Bersin & Associates discuss how to build rigor, objectivity and predictability into succession management practices by using standard, competency-based assessments and analyzing performance data. She'll also share how to use performance management practices to employ a systematic approach to identifying high potentials, cultivate talent pools with development support for specific career paths and create success profiles for talent assessments.
The Circle of Talent Management: Learning from the Past
Thursday June 26 2008
Presented By:
Peter Cappelli, The George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty
11:00 AM EST
The challenge for human resource executives today is how to do leadership development in an effective, cost-efficient way. Traditional investments in talent management are hugely expensive, especially when the employees carefully cultivated by an organization leave the firm for a rival company. At the same time, hiring from outside has become prohibitively expensive, while delivering unreliable results.
Failures in talent management may be more recognizable than the concept itself. Those failures include mismatches between supply and demand: on the one hand, having too many employees, leading to layoffs and restructurings; and on the other hand, having too little talent or not being able to find the skills that are needed. These mismatches are among the biggest challenges that employers face. Over the past generation, many employers have lurched from surpluses of talent to shortfalls and back again. Something is wrong with this picture.
There is no doubt that talent management is at the top of every HR leader's agenda, but too often, leadership-development processes are bureaucratic and complex. This Webinar will offer strategies to help organizations effectively craft and pursue talent-management and leadership-development initiatives in an environment where budgets are tight and the forecast for the future is uncertain.
Looking Forward – HR Analytics and Predictive Models
Tuesday June 10 2008
Presented By:
Russ Clarke, Sr. Manager - Human Capital Practice, Deloitte and
Jamie Clark, Director – Human Capital Practice, Deloitte
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
You have a wealth of workforce-related information in your Performance management systems, learning systems, and data marts, but how do you link that to broader business strategies, problems, and opportunities? How do you address the gaping divide between petabytes of possibly relevant information and the business issues to which it might be applied? What you will learn:
- How to adopt a top-down approach to “workforce intelligence”
- How to use predictive modeling techniques to get data that helps make better business decisions
- How to link the broader business strategies, problems and opportunities to your learning systems
- Understanding how analytics can be used to identify issues and establish measurements for workforce performance
The New Enterprise Imperative: Building Leaders at Every Level
Thursday May 29 2008
Presented By: Eileen M. Rogers, Global Director, Talent Excellence, Deloitte and
Phil Casman, Director, Performance and Compensation Services, Plateau Systems
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET
Leadership can no longer be the private preserve of top executives. Nor is it sufficient to reactively develop business leaders by simply mapping their growth and development to a formalized competency framework. The dynamic complexity of the 21st century demands a proactive process that builds leadership talent everywhere and all the time. Cultivating a whole-firm leadership mindset energizes the workplace, increases employee engagement, and enables the organization to flex, adapt, and innovate in the global marketplace. In this Webcast you will learn how:
- The LeadershipSigma© mindset creates leadership capability and a leadership culture throughout the organization.
- To develop a leadership framework that is actionable on an organizational as well as individual basis so that leadership can be embedded into the organizational DNA.
- Leadership performance is coached and supported, while customizable solutions ensure outcomes are valuable for personal and business results.
- Is coached and supported, while customizable solutions ensure outcomes are valuable for personal and business results.
HCI webinar: Developing Leaders for the Changing Horizon
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Speaker: Dolores Wilverding, Managing Director, Advisory Svcs, Pricewaterhouse Coopers
3:00 – 4:00 pm EST
Globalization has redefined the playing field of how business is conducted because the sun never sets on multi-nationals. This webcast will discuss how companies can develop leaders to meet the demands of tomorrow's business horizon, drawing from data in PricewaterhouseCoopers' 10th Annual Global CEO Survey, and the PricewaterhouseCoopers/Saratoga 2007/2008 US Human Capital Effectiveness Report. Don't miss these webcast take aways:
- Four key emerging business revolutions and success factors to improve competitive advantage
- Leadership "success quotients" and competencies for high performance
- Organize your company and manage talent to deliver value
- Business decisions that affect talent retention and innovation
Real Life, Real Answers: Research Findings on Integrated Talent Management Systems
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Presented by Leighanne Levensaler, Bersin & Associates
Join Leighanne Levensaler, principal analyst at Bersin & Associates, as she shares the answers to the top questions organizations face in developing an integrated talent management systems strategy. The “answers” are based on the experiences of more than 700 organizations included in the recently published research report, “Integrated Talent Management Suites: Market Realities, Implementation Experiences, and Vendor Profiles.” During this Talent Management magazine Webinar, sponsored by Plateau, Levensaler will share real-world insights and best practices about the selection, implementation and business impact of talent management systems. Key insights include:
- Why should we buy a talent management suite?
- What is the value and impact of selecting an integrated approach?
- What is the best approach to integrated talent management, given my organization’s current HR systems landscape?
- Should we wait until the market matures to make an investment?
