Do you speak language understood by your CFO, CIO and CEO? To get and keep a seat at the executive table, senior HR and talent leaders need to communicate in the language of business, especially when making their ROI case for talent initiatives. This webcast will cover a successful talent case study, from work done at Wachovia, pitched to the perspective of business decision makers. more »
Do you speak language understood by your CFO, CIO and CEO? To get and keep a seat at the executive table, senior HR and talent leaders need to communicate in the language of business, especially when making their ROI case for talent initiatives. This webcast will cover a successful talent case study, from work done at Wachovia, pitched to the perspective of business decision makers. It passes the tests of HR's credibility and role as a valued business partner (earned by diagnosing, prescribing, and implementing targeted and relevant interventions), and by partnering with executive leaders using information they need to run their business and produce results. You'll leave with insights about collecting data that demonstrates business impact, and how talent creates value, measured in business dashboard terms. more »
Investment in talent surpasses the ROI from most other assets and processes in organizations. Can you show how talent investments pay back? This webcast introduces a ROI methodology most often applied to measure the success of talent management investments. A case study will be presented to describe how one organization applied the ROI process to address a talent retention problem, when they rewarded talent for critical skills. When everyone from shareholders to front-line leaders asks about ROI, this timely webcast will help local and global talent initiatives.
Don't miss these webcast take aways:
No doubt the economy shapes your talent agenda-so how do you ensure your organization intelligently recognizes and leverages critical talent? Business strategy continues to include targeted expansion into global markets, new product/service lines, targeted reductions in workforce, and mergers / acquisitions. This webcast will explore how a change in business strategy or direction impacts your talent investment, metrics to use, and an understanding of the data required.
As the CEO's strategic partner often charged with reducing operating costs, CFO's have traditionally grappled with the idea of investing in talent and talent management. This perspective is changing as many CFO's are finding that partnering with human resources to leverage talent management solutions can reduce operating costs through combining process with automation. CFO's using new metrics made easy by such systems are better able to report on and understand the return on investments made in talent and talent management. Join us to find out how CFO's view talent management and are partnering with human resources to quantify returns made on investment in talent and the technology to manage it. more »
Talking Talent: A CFO Panel
How do CFO's view human capital? Do they see talent as pure overhead that can be cut or as an organizations key strategic asset to be invested in and the only true differentiator in our global economy? This hour will explore a panel of CFO's views on the HR function, and investing in talent and talent management.
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Since it's critical to make the right hire, not just any hire, it's important to be at the leading edge of best selection and hiring practices. Dr. Steven Hunt, author of "Hiring Success" will share insights to help organizations improve the accuracy and efficiency of selection and hiring decisions and effectively incorporate scientific behavioral assessments into their staffing process. "Many organizations believe that lowering their hiring standards is an inevitable reality in this fiercely competitive labor market. While this may be necessary in some cases, there are a range of systematic staffing tools that companies can use to rapidly identify quality applicants while minimizing the danger of making bad hires. But surprisingly few companies are fully aware of these tools and how to effectively use them." said Dr. Hunt. This webcast will help you balance the need to increase applicant flow against the risk of making the wrong hiring decisions, to make the right hiring decisions by design. more »
Talent strategy creates a unique competitive advantage for companies-does yours do this? This webcast will address how to uncover distinctive talent contributions and allocate talent to create value. Critical HR practices and metrics that guide implementation of talent strategy will be featured from successful companies such as Disney, Boeing, and Corning. Learn how to identify opportunities with strategy "pivot points" and make talent decisions that will put you ahead of the competition. Presenter, Dr. John Boudreau will highlight his new book from Harvard Business School Press, Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital, showing how "HR" can evolve to fulfill its potential as a source of strategic advantage. more »
Companies with a large number of distributed locations are challenged to hire and retain high-quality unit level managers. For many of these companies, the best talent opportunities lie within- if they can successfully identify high-potential field (hourly) talent and move them up the career ladder. more »
Strategic human capital professionals can build a business case for talent investment that demonstrates measurable benefits to operations and wins approval from finance. Positioning a realistic up-front ROI and implementing meaningful metrics are critical to gaining (and maintaining) executive support. more »
Financial asset managers have all kinds of tools at their disposal to help them determine the expected gain of investments, measure the risks involved and compare the relative rewards of different options. But although staffing and human resource professionals have been charged with becoming more strategic and applying accounting-type principals to hiring decisions, the fundamental principles that allow this to happen are largely a mystery. more »