A total rewards strategy that reinforces performance and recognizes employee effort and contribution helps to ensure motivated and committed talent. As companies pay attention to how they are spending their limited compensation dollars, recognizing and rewarding performance can be challenging. But even now, statistics suggest that 75 percent of companies in the US connect part of a person's pay to measures of performance. Is their link between compensation, work quality and the realization of specific goals clear? more »
Recognizing that people have a major bearing on how any business performs, incorporating high performance as an integral part of organizational culture is becoming a given. Corporate performance management and talent management are inseparable. Aligning people plans with the business plan signs up the right talent to be accountable for the right goals, and everyone, top to bottom, can see measurable targets to evaluate how they and the business are doing. How do the best and innovative companies accomplish this? more »
The talent-pool approach to succession planning has emerged as a best practice that establishes a larger number of employees for promotion, who are more likely to stay loyal and whose skills are best aligned with the organization's strategic plans. Leading succession planning experts recognize that many organizations confuse replacement planning for true succession planning, which focuses on developing people to build overall bench strength. Despite the current downturn, many organizations are still faced with competency shortfalls. This means succession planning strategies and tools must effectively nurture and develop a deep pool of people to draw from, with the know-how to support the organization's strategic direction. This webcast will cover how to implement systematic succession planning using talent pools to gain a competitive edge in a knowledge economy.
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High commitment is reflected in a high performance organization... does your company have both? Companies are typically founded on commitment but don't develop a road map that transforms them to high performance. To make this transformation a reality, leaders make courageous decisions about how to organize, lead and manage their companies. It means giving talent a voice in key decisions and innovations at the business unit and front-line level, and coordinating support across functions. This webcast discusses successful practices in companies that have sustained a competitive advantage by transforming into a high commitment and high performance workplace. Dr. Michael Beer will share highlights from his new book, "High Commitment High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage." If you're a leader or developer of leaders, this webcast is for you!
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When it comes to managing and developing talent, the full support of your company's business leaders is crucial. These leaders understand ROI, so how do you meet their expectations and speak their language using metrics and performance outcomes tied to actual dollars? The good news is the link between talent and company performance has become more quantifiable, and many types of nonfinancial outcomes from goal alignment, engagement and productivity can be translated into dollar terms. Every 4 percent improvement in engagement, for example, can be tied to a 1 percent improvement in earnings. Top companies align talent competencies with their overall business strategy, and reinforce expectations through performance management and 360 degree feedback. At a time when every investment is scrutinized for its return, this webcast will help you fortify your business case for investments in valuable talent assets. more »
When properly managed, goals are strategic tools to gain the maximum output from the collective contributions of all individuals in an organization. Goals direct use of time, attention, effort, and resources. They help to ensure that everybody in the boat is rowing in the same direction. When individuals understand how their efforts connect to others' and the goals of the organization, they feel more valued and appreciated. They are more likely to be engaged in their work and perceive it to be more meaningful. Aligned goals synchronize the strokes each individual makes to race across the finish line. Is your company's crew ready to compete?
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Execution is critical from leaders who commit to turnaround performance from their organization. In this economy, execution must reflect adaptability to new opportunities and requirements. Those who are successful use metrics to assess their organization's readiness and ability to deliver on a turnaround plan. The most effective leaders take on the challenges to deliver turnaround performance with the depth of character needed to strengthen talent morale and commitment. This webcast will address the capabilities of leaders who can make tough decisions and win talent commitment to rapidly rebuild and reposition organizational capability for turnaround performance.
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Multi-rater or 360 degree feedback provides a basis for individuals' development, process improvement, and demonstrating critical competencies throughout your organization. Insight about performance, goal achievement and underlying competencies is greatly enhanced by feedback from multiple sources. As part of the performance management process, 360 degree feedback allows direct reports, teammates, cross-functional managers and even external stakeholders to provide perspective that sustains talent engagement and team productivity. Informal feedback helps, but a formalized process to gather and consolidate this broader feedback captures critical insights. This webcast will discuss how you can make the most of 360 degree multi-rater feedback to improve and sustain performance. If you want to turn up the volume of listening in your organization for fidelity performance, this webcast is for you!
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Recognizing that people have a major bearing on how any business performs, incorporating high performance as an integral part of organizational culture is becoming a given. Corporate performance management and talent management are inseparable. Aligning people plans with the business plan signs up the right talent to be accountable for the right goals, and everyone, top to bottom, can see measurable targets to evaluate how they and the business are doing. How do the best and innovative companies accomplish this? You'll leave this webcast with insights on what it takes to create a performance culture, by hearing new research, corporate practitioners' successful practices and business results.
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Often tied only to mid-year and year-end reviews for individuals, the performance management process can unite the entire organization around strategic objectives and results. Effective organizations focus on the overall organizational performance measurement. This webcast explores what leading organizations are doing to enable executives to how organizations can use the performance management process to create organization wide performance goals, hold each division / unit accountable for results, engage individual employees to contribute to business success and to assess the performance of the entire organization.
Take away from this hour a powerful method that creates accountability, transparency and enthusiasm using the performance management process across the entire organization.
More than 25% of Learning & Development managers have made integrating performance management with learning goals one of their top priorities (Bersin 2007). What is driving these leading practitioners? As organizations sharpen their focus of ROI, the emphasis has changed from how good the training is, to how well the training is used to improve performance. Evaluation of training has become "evalu-action," as learning gets applied on the job to improve performance. Discover new best-practices to integrate learning with performance including:
Many organizations handle their workforces largely based on long held assumptions and beliefs about human capital management. In this webcast, Dr. Steven Hunt of SuccessFactors will cover several major changes affecting the practice of talent management and the impact on organizational performance. How are companies adapting to and being impacted by the growing labor shortage, increasing generational and cultural differences in the workforce, and the expanding role of technology in human resources? Synthesizing current information and data from a variety of sources, Dr. Hunt will identify major themes shaping the future of workforce productivity. Learn about the nine critical shifts in talent management that your company should consider right now and why they are important to future success. more »