Webcast:
Your company is changing part of its core business model, and you need to deliver the talent make it work. The talent initiative involves current employees, new talent, new strategies, stringent confidentiality requirements and extremely aggressive timelines. Impossible? Of course it is! So where do you begin?
In this presentation, Robin Ritter of General Mills, one of the world's leading food companies, and Kristy Sidlar of Futurestep will draw lessons from a highly successful 2008 talent initiative and high-expectation "phase II" follow up. What does it take to succeed? We'll cover issues related to planning, setting expectations, execution, building and sustaining support, and what it takes to achieve repeat success.
Whether you work with a trusted partner or drive talent acquisition in-house, this session will provide insight that can help you tackle difficult challenges to meet even the most ambitious recruiting goals.
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Presenters
Kristy Sidlar joined Futurestep in 2005 as a Managing Consultant for the firm's Michigan office. She manages a client base throughout the US, providing strategic talent acquisition solutions for clients based on each company's unique talent issues. Her areas of focus span multiple industries, with the heaviest emphasis on consumer products and industrial/manufacturing sectors. Key clients include Continental Automotive, Delphi Automotive, Fonterra, General Mills, LG Electronics and Wal-Mart. Ms. Sidlar is an active member of Korn/Ferry International's Global Consumer/Retail practice.
Robin Ritter is the Director of Talent and Learning Systems for General Mills, Inc. where she is responsible for talent management strategy development and for guiding the implementation of global learning and talent management systems. Since joining General Mills in 1995, Robin has held multiple roles with the company, including Director of Human Resources for the Yoplait and Pillsbury North America Business Units, Director of Human Resources for the Consumer Food Sales Division, as well as roles in HR and Labor Relations management. Robin's most recent role was that of Human Resource Director for the Bakeries and Foodservice Division.Robin's leadership experience also includes four years of volunteer service as President of the Family Child Development Center Board of Directors, a non-profit child-care center serving families in the western suburbs of Minneapolis. She is currently serving on a leadership committee for the Women's Foodservice Forum, the premier leadership development community for women in the foodservice industry. Robin earned her bachelor's degree in Communications and her master's degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois.