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In 2009, HCI joined Futurestep and The Newman Group to publish
"Talent Management Technologies". This book provides a comprehensive
guide to help HR and Talent Management executives navigate the
exciting but often perplexing world of systems, tools and "solutions".
Today, HCI Is pleased to provide an online reference center that will
provide key information from the book, as well as the latest updates
on vendors, solutions, features and functions.
Join us for a special Webcast with book authors Ed Newman and Peter DeVries of The Newman Group and Futurestep. more »
Live:
Tuesday, Apr 13 2010 12:00pm EDT 
Recasts:
Wednesday, Apr 14 2010 4:00pm EDT
Wednesday, Apr 14 2010 8:00pm EDT
Thursday, Apr 15 2010 12:00am EDT
Thursday, Apr 15 2010 4:00am EDT
Thursday, Apr 15 2010 8:00am EDT
Webcasts on Demand
Talent Networks and Quality Candidates: Strategy, Technology, and Lessons from Premera's Successful Initiative
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Traditionally, companies have often handled talent acquisition by reaching out to large numbers of candidates and sifting them through the largest funnel possible in the hopes of identifying a few top choices. Unfortunately, the process is cumbersome, and it does not always yield quality candidates. Thanks to advances in technology, including social networking applications and innovations in technology, companies have new options for breaking out of this funnel mentality.
In this presentation, talent strategy expert Ed Newman of The Newman Group joins Kristen Hill of Premera Blue Cross. They will share insight on an approach that is transforming the way companies engage quality candidates. We will learn about strategies for better understanding available talent; building networks; measuring, managing and improving those networks; and creating a culture that is focused on delivering known, high-quality candidates. We will share in the experience of Premera's talent network program, a pilot initiative that has received rave reviews from participating hiring managers; and we will learn about innovations and technologies that are helping to shape the future of talent acquisition.
This promises to be an engaging and information-packed session, and we hope you can join us. more »
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Five Ways to Jumpstart Your Talent Strategy for a Positive 2010
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For most companies, 2008 and '09 were trying times, and forward-looking talent strategy often took a back seat to near-term survival in the face of falling profits, workforce reductions and budget cuts. The good news is, there is some sense of stability today. But if you're involved in talent planning, you may have torn up your strategy over the last year-and now it's time to pick it up an spring back into action. Where do you begin?
In this session, Talent Management expert Lynne Morton draws from her experience in talent management strategy for today's top companies to help you make sense of your overall talent picture. She will explore five key areas for jump starting your strategy and developing a practical approach to improving your talent picture over the coming year. These include: Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Accountability, Hi-Potential/Leadership Development and Showing Value.
This presentation is a great opportunity for anyone involved in talent operations (line executives and HR partners) to gain a perspective that looks beyond the downturn in preparation for the changing economic environment that lies ahead. more »
Making Sense of Vendor Options In an Evolving Talent Marketplace
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Shrinking talent pools, changing demographics and globalization- these are a few of the conditions framing the big picture that is today's talent acquisition environment. If you're like most talent decision-makers, however, the big picture is the least of your worries. You have immediate concerns. Perhaps your hiring managers have stopped using your system, or requisitions take months to fill because of an onerous approval process. Or perhaps corporate leadership has unceremoniously dumped a seemingly impossible recruitment project.
To compete for talent, companies need to sharpen their tools and focus their vision. The good news is that the market for talent acquisition and management products and services has been responding to the demand for top performance with a myriad of solutions. Buried in that overwhelming array of options could be the right choice that will allow you to begin to address your real challenges. Join us for this webcast with expert Ed Newman to learn how to make the right choices in these challenging times. more »
Re-Engaging Employees in Tough Times: An Honest EVP Approach to Retention, Productivity, and Business Value
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Keeping employees engaged-for many talent decision-makers, this is a foremost challenge as they continue to operate in a world of re-organization, layoffs and uncertainty. Studies have shown that employee engagement and commitment to their employer can have a direct correlation to retention, productivity, and, ultimately, core business value.
An intro to EVP: What is the employment value proposition? How does it affect your relationship with candidates and employees alike? How can you define, quantify and act on it?
Employee retention and engagement: What are the EVP concerns that influence the way your existing employees view your organization? How does that influence the value they provide to the company? How do you re-recruit your critical internal talent?
An honest objective process for re-focusing your EVP: How do you understand what employees really think about your company? What does it take to truly influence that perception?
Case in point-Volkwagen Group of America: How did this automotive sales leader discover employee EVP challenges, and how did it address them to dramatically streamline and improve its facility re-location effort? A great example of employment-engagement in action.
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In today's economy, how do you honestly assess your employees' needs and their perception of the company? Have they become dis-engaged due to recent activity? How do you identify the issues and improve relationships in a real, lasting manner? In this session, we will cover an honest, objective approach to getting to the answers-an approach that is driven by The Employment Value Proposition (EVP).
Talent strategy expert Mitzi Adwell of The Newman Group will show you how EVP, a concept that is commonly associated with candidate perception and recruiting, is just as important in employee retention and engagement. We will explore how a focused EVP assessment can help reveal critical employee needs, values and issues that are frequently hidden within the company culture. We will also cover examples of EVP in action, including a recent effort with Volkswagen Group of America, an intiative that dramatically improved retention and employee engagement. Featured areas of focus include:
This is a great chance to gain a practical understanding of a proven process for better understanding and engaging employees in these turbulent times.
Get Off the Talent Treadmill: A Proactive Approach to Talent Management
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2008 has been a challenging year for the global economy. The bursting of the housing bubble in the United States and the related credit crunch, combined with increasing energy prices and a subsequent decline in spending, have many employers in retreat. As organizations retrench, many are searching for opportunities to defer not only capital investments but human-capital investments as well. This phenomenon, combined with the impact of globalization, the speed of change in business and continuing talent shortages, often leaves HR professionals in the unenviable position of playing "catch-up" with the business. Playing catch-up manifests itself in stop-and-start recruiting and retention objectives, vacancies in strategic roles and HR organizations that are focused on reducing operating expenses rather than improving operating results. Winning will require HR leaders to break this cycle and get off the talent treadmill (i.e., continuous cycle of reactive and disjointed talent management decisions).
Getting off the talent treadmill and adopting a more proactive, business-centered approach ensures that the right number of people with the right skills are deployed, engaged and rewarded appropriately to execute a company's strategy. Organizations can successfully hardwire talent strategy to business strategy by applying the three-step process that will be discussed in the webinar. more »
Unicorns, the Tooth Fairy and the Complete Talent Management Suite
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The ideal of the complete talent management suite has become a fixture in the industry over the years. Driven by competition and market expectations, solutions providers have built, expanded or acquired functionality-- reaching for everything from job posting to onboarding and performance management. In turn, companies have increased their demands based on what the market has to offer. Will the apparent trend toward broad and deep functionality ever lead to a complete talent suite that is everything to everyone? It may be difficult to believe in such an ideal, but it has driven a very real evolution in technology. In many ways, it's not important whether the ideal becomes a reality. For those who develop talent technology and the companies that buy it, the trends inspired by the ideal are what matter most, and those trends will continue to affect how business is done well into the future.
Join us for a fascinating look into the future of TMS-and the history that drove it. Ed Newman, president of The Newman Group, a (FutureStep company) and recognized leader in talent acquisition and management consulting services will share his extensive experience in addressing the most difficult talent challenges facing today's companies. We'll examine the myths and fallacies of TMS, but also look at real life planning-including getting the right sponsorship, planning for implementations and prioritizing your functional requirements. more »
The Missing Link: Ensuring that your Talent Strategy is Implicitly Linked with Your Overall Strategic Planning
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Between 40% and 50% of costs in any business are spent on human capital - so making it a priority would seem sensible for all leaders. Yet a recent McKinsey study uncovered this astonishing reality: most companies are as unprepared for the challenges of finding, motivating, and retaining capable workers as they were a decade ago. What can you do to ensure that your company is connecting the dots between its people and its bottom line-and how can you get all levels of your organization to embrace this strategy?
Talent management needs to be established not in an HR silo, but at the heart and core of overall business planning. Demographic change, globalization, and the rise of the knowledge worker will all affect this plan and its projected success. Join us for this strategically focused discussion that will assist you in creating a systematic and continuous approach to talent strategy, and ensure that you can communicate it to all levels of your organization. more »
Support Your Talent Management Strategy
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Of all the ingredients in an effective talent management strategy, reporting is one of the most underestimated. Companies constantly struggle to translate data from their systems into meaningful measures of performance and success, and industry pundits continue to advance a variety of metrics for measuring talent acquisition effectiveness. While there is no shortage of measurement options, the real challenge is to define the metrics that are relevant to the goals of the business.
This session is aimed helping to identify quantifiable measures of performance that point directly to talent management goals and overall business objectives. In this webcast, Victor Atsinger of The Newman Group will explain the challenge and the importance of aligning reporting to talent management goals, and explore a proven methodology aimed at developing an effective reporting strategy. This process focuses on identifying the critical operational needs of your organization, customers, and management. In this webcast we will:
- Explore the impact of reporting on overall business strategy
- Help you recognize and address the challenges that stand in the way of effective reporting capability
- Discuss and demonstrate the process for identifying and defining business objectives
- Isolate metrics and measures to support those goals
- Assess reports, dashboards and scorecards for managing and auditing key metrics and measures
- Identify needs that do not have a current process or system solution
This is a great opportunity for anyone involved in talent acquisition and management planning to gain a practical understanding of what it takes to develop an effective reporting strategy. more »
Staying Ahead of Change: The Importance of the Employment Value Proposition
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The hallmark of a successful company is its ability to adjust to changing conditions in the market, adopt new technologies, embrace new business models, and when necessary, reinvent itself. The right talent is essential for a changing business, but how do you ensure that you're organization is focusing on engaging the right talent. A look at your Employment Value Proposition (EVP) can provide the answer.
In this session, we explore the importance of the EVP in addressing changing talent management needs.The session will provide practical insight for understanding key aspects of EVP, including:
- The importance of EVP to business success
- The drivers that shape your EVP
- Aligning EVP with your attraction message and sourcing strategies
- Connecting the dots to create a focused EVP strategy
For anyone facing a changing business focus, this session will provide valuable information on attracting the talent to enable continued success. A strategic focus on the Employment Value Proposition enables an evolving talent acquisition and management process that is proactive and, most importantly, continues to deliver the talent your organization needs to stay successful. more »
Turning Strategy Into Action: Applying Talent Management Principles to Address Business Challenges
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One of the most important principles of talent management is a focus on applying the full force of your available resources to address business challenges. That means breaking down silos to create a holistic approach. It means engaging stakeholders across departments and functions to work together effectively. It also means giving them the flexibility to stay ahead of the constantly changing variables of the real-world business environment.
In this session we will explore how McKesson, a FORTUNE 50 leader in healthcare supply management and information technology, applied talent management principles to create a diversity initiative that delivers lasting results. We will cover lessons learned and tactics for success as they apply to key steps in an effective initiative, including:
- Setting the business case
- Assessing and prioritizing needs
- Setting realistic goals
- Establishing leadership buy-in
- Communicating the importance of your initiative
- Building talent management plans to support the initiative
- Sustaining accountability
This is a great chance to gain practical knowledge you can use to bring your teams together, based on the experience of an organization that remains at the forefront in addressing today's talent management challenges. more »
This Learning Track Made Possible by
Ed Newman
Leader, Futurestep U.S. President, The Newman Group
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