The Virtual Global Workforce

Standardizing your HCM/ATS systems can improve efficiencies and make a dramatic impact on your bottom line. But when you're an HR professional located in Dallas, tasked with the job of a virtual rollout to London and Paris, the job may seem both daunting and overwhelming. How can you best coordinate with your IT department, your global employees and your executive team to ensure a smooth transition?

If you are a global workforce professional who is considering a worldwide technology implementation or upgrade, or currently managing one, please join us for this hour of learning. By examining your overall technology platform and your ATS system, we'll learn about how to:

• Achieve rapid implementation and rollout across countries and cultures.
• Meet global requirements for scalability to fit the needs of specific regions
• Hire and manage staff with confidence
• Establish process improvements with a common platform and consistent workflow

   

Now more than ever, managers and executives within an organization must build and maintain strong and high performing teams. Do you and your management team know what it takes to effectively work with your globally disparate managers and high performers? These individuals are the key to developing and marketing products and services yielding higher value to your customers. How do project managers and business leaders effectively manage geographically dispersed workforces? Are your company goals and initiatives for the new year translating globally?

Whether you are an HR leader concerned about your workforce or a senior manger trying to improve your virtual management style, this webcast is for you. We'll look at how the recession is affecting virtual teams worldwide, and delve into how to define work structures and teams. We'll examine best communication practices, and show how to establish communication strategies and knowledge transfer. more »

The global workday, circa 2008, may mean this: a worker in Boise hands off communication at the end of his shift to a colleague in Bangladesh. Poland, Maine and Poland, E.U. are six time zones apart, yet employees in each may need to work as united corporate entity, their physical distance invisible to their shared customer base. The globalization of industry and markets and advances in information communication technology tools means that the time for excuses is over-high performing companies must collaborate to create global teams that interact as seamless units. Yet common pitfalls still remain-including language barriers, cultural misconceptions, and feelings of unit-based isolation.

Learn what your company can do to combat these common missteps and ensure team success. We'll focus on real life and current initiatives around the global, discussing different ways of creating cost effective measures that lead to team collaboration. This webcast will examine ideas such as short term cultural exchange programs, technical conferencing, and effective communication techniques. We'll gain a new appreciation for seeing the world from a global perspective, and learn what management and team members can do to better prepare themselves for these challenges by taking advantage of their strengths and promoting their successes. more »

This decade has ushered in the globalization of work, the tapping of global talent, and the rise of emerging global markets. Corporations have driven these trends by aggressively seeking global business opportunities - in many cases establishing new offices on other continents.

Yet, a few notable exceptions aside, most corporations have attempted to internationalize rather than globalize their homegrown business processes and corporate culture. But globalization is not just another form of cultural diversity. And business practices that are effective in the U.S. aren't necessarily best practices worldwide.

The Globalization of Work, Workers, and Workplaces will examine how some corporations have embraced while others have eschewed the opportunity to globalize corporate culture, professional relationships, and talent management. What are the opportunities and challenges inherent in the new global approach?

As an HR professional the career implications of globalization are clear. One of the first steps is preparing to ask and then answer strategic questions such as:

• What are the keys to managing a global career?
• What's behind sourcing and managing world-class talent?
• How do you train and equip globally collaborative workers?
• How do you create and manage a global workplace?