Apply Your Knowledge
Every Workgroup participant completes a Practicum: a real, on-the-job project that applies the knowledge contained in HCI’s courses to a current and pressing issue on the participant’s desk. Participants select a talent challenge in their own organization, then develop a business case analysis and implementation plan to successfully address it. The result: learning that actually knocks an item of a participant’s to-do list.
Practicums can address nearly any topic, challenge or objective that the participant has, but in general, we encourage participants to choose something real, pressing, difficult, and top priority. The faculty member’s job is to bring the wealth of HCI resources to bear on the problem at hand so participants can stand on the shoulders of those who have tackled similar challenges in the past.
Sample Practicums
The practicum process is a unique characteristic of HCI's educational programs. It emphasizes our commitment to practical application, improving skills and practices for individuals and organizations, and advancing the science of Strategic Talent Management. Recent practicums include:
- A gap analysis of six key talent practices
- Creating a Talent Acquisition Plan
- Design and Implementation of a Competency Framework
- The four pillars of employee engagement
- The next generation leadership development program
- Talent Management Maturity Model for Organizational Alignment
- Improving the Employee Orientation Process
- Improving the exit interview process
- Identifying mission critical occupations
- Moving Toward the Talent Age in the City Government
- Dealing with four generations in the workplace
- On-boarding programs for consultants on client projects
- Establishing a new leadership competency mode
- Eliminate Turnover & Build Bench for Key Positions
- Linking Corporate Strategy to HR metrics
- Strategic Onboarding
- Enhancing the Onboarding Experience through Technology
- Strategic talent retention
- Flexible career paths
- Internal talent mobility
- Enhanced Skills Analysis and Training to Attract and Retain Staff
- An effective buddy program
- A Review of HCM practices in the National Passenger Rail System
- Revamping HR structure and organizational design
- Addressing the impacts of a ten year hiring freeze
- Making compelling cases to skeptical audiences
- A three year initiative to improve talent practices
- Creating Career Develoment in a State Agency
- Defining "high potential"
- Analyzing Your Recruitment Process
- Executive Assessment Frameworks
- The Case for Police Boards Using Human Capital Management