Being good at what you do typically leads to a well-deserved promotion, but we all know that a leadership role requires so much more than just technical expertise. Research shows that technical experts had significantly higher percentages of development needs in seven of nine critical leadership competencies. So, how can you look past the technical skills to find and promote high-quality individuals who are ready for the role?

In this session, Bradford Thomas shares research, best practices, and sample case studies to ensure you are looking past the technical skills and using the appropriate tools to make the best selection and promotion decisions for your first-time or frontline leaders.

Key Insights:

• Where to start when developing your sourcing strategy
• How to build and align a team
• How to continue to improve your passive candidate strategy over time
• Key performance indicators that can help you measure & refine along the way

Sick of going through countless resumes in search of the perfect candidate?  Watch this HCI webcast for insight into how companies can leverage an Internal Sourcing Strategy to effectively recruit passive candidates and stay ahead of the curve when competing for top talent.

Webcast Highlights:

• How to define the business case for why to change your interviewing process and why now is the time to do it.
• How you can best leverage technology to make interviewer training more efficient and more effective.
• 10 simple steps you can take to make your interviewing process world-class.

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The most wasted business opportunity in talent acquisition is letting poor talent decisions persist in hiring and promotion, because bad or even mediocre employees are the biggest cost and greatest barrier to an organization’s success. So, if people matter the most to your business, why do you put up with such poor talent decisions?

As you know, even your best, most experienced hiring managers make mistakes. Learn to improve professional judgment in hiring and promotions with the high quality information you need plus a process your hiring managers will comply with.

The world has been stuck in a dominance paradigm since we first learned we could dominate others through force. Autocratic, authoritarian leadership depends on this paradigm of dominating others, however, the world is moving away from this dominance paradigm to a partnership paradigm in which we work more through relationships. Leadership is evolving to meet with these changes in how society relates with one another, but the skills required to partner well - emotional intelligence skills - often get overlooked.

Webcast Highlights:

• Practical ways you can create an exciting, positive work environment and competitive people advantage for the organization even in tough, challenging times
• Specific real-life examples and techniques that can be immediately applied
• Methods to systematically leverage, build and sustain a culture of engagement in their workplace

Multi-million copy best-selling author Dr. Bob Nelson (1501 Ways to Reward Employees, The Management Bible) teams up with Michael Levy, CEO of Online Rewards for a live, interactive webcast on what’s working best on the topic of employee engagement.

Most employees today feel overworked and underappreciated. During times of change when we are asking them to do more with less (or even more with even less), they report feeling less valued and more stressed for their efforts than ever before. Bob Nelson, Ph.D., will expand your thinking of how best to leverage the potential of your staff -- even with relatively little time, resources or budget, focusing on core researched-based elements found in strong cultures of engagement that inspire employees to new levels of performance:

• VISION: A Clear and Compelling Direction
• COMMUNICATION: Open and Honest Communication
• INITIATIVE: Encouraging Employee Initiative & Autonomy
• DEVELOPMENT: Focus on Learning & Career Growth
• RECOGNITION: Recognize and Reward High Performance

Online Rewards CEO Michael Levy makes the case that “one size does not fit all” and how any engagement solution must fit your organization’s size, type and history.

Webcast Highlights:

• Learn from Hay Group's global opinion database to highlight best practices
• The importance of leveraging non-tangible rewards and how that can be an effective lever for employee engagement
• Gain insights that will help maxmize ROI on reward programs

No, money probably can’t buy you love.  And it won’t alone buy you employee engagement either.  But a sense of balance between what employees contribute to an organization and what they get back in return is fundamental to sustaining the extra efforts that come with an engaged workforce.  And that means that reward programs are an important component of effective employee engagement strategies.  In this session, discover how financial and non-financial elements of total rewards approaches influence employee engagement. 

Webcast Highlights:

• The pros and cons of 360 feedback tools
• Three major challenges that organizations face when implementing a 360 program
• Best practices for using 360 tools to your advantage

Using a 360 multi-rater feedback tool is a valuable way for any organization to develop its people and provide employees the insights they need to improve. Too often the feedback is given, reviewed, and then forgotten. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

There are many ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’ in the usage of a 360 program. Attend this webcast where we’ll demonstrate what happens when 360's are done poorly and explore how you can use a 360 feedback tool to generate lasting improvement for your employees and organization.

HCI and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Executive Development's research has revealed the current climate of leadership development including budgets, leadership competencies and anticipated changes for the future. Three hundred seventy-eight HR and L&D professionals completed a survey in Feb. 2014, and the data enabled researchers to uncover the characteristics that high-potential employees and organizations contribute to accelerated leadership development. 

Join us in this research webcast as we reveal results from the study and take questions from the audience. Registrants will receive a copy of the final research report.

The cost of a bad hire can be staggering. Recent studies have put the figure as high as the annual salary of the employee. Harvard Business Review states that as much as 80 percent of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions. Forbes research suggests that 46 percent of new hires turn out to be bad hires.

What role can technology play in improving these statistics? Join this webcast for an overview of some of the technologies currently available to drive engagement for the entire recruiting lifecycle and improve the ROI on the firm’s recruiting budget. By focusing on the user experience and the needs of both the hiring manager and team firms will see a drastic improvement. Our expert practictioner will evaluate the importance of the following topics:

• Social recruiting
• Collaborative hiring
• Advanced candidate assessments
• Video interviewing
• Integrated ATS and L&D software for more efficient onboarding