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Pivotal Work: Talent Strategy for Fast-Changing Times

Aug 1, 2017 | ,

This webinar with John Boudreau will show how the tools and frameworks of “Strategic Partnership: Applying the frameworks of business to talent” to identify where high performance work makes the biggest strategic impact, and how to help your leaders use talent strategy to anticipate and prepare for unpredictability.

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When Talent is Important: Five Next Practices

When Talent is Important: Five Next Practices

Jul 13, 2017 |

How many times have you heard CEOs and HR executives say that talent is their organization’s most important asset? I have heard it many times, and I usually follow up by asking how that translates into the way they manage people. All too often that question is answered poorly or not at all.

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Organization Development and Talent Management: Beyond the Triple Bottom Line

Jun 21, 2017 | ,

Edward Lawler III (CEO) shares how there is a growing movement to broaden the definition of organizational effectiveness. Fewer and fewer countries and societies are willing to accept that financial performance is all that matters when it comes to organizational effectiveness.

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Human Resource Consulting

Feb 15, 2017 | , , , ,

The field of human resources (HR) consulting is large, extremely diverse, and highly dynamic. This introductory update to the 2005 chapter by Gerald E. Ledford (CEO), Edward Lawler III (CEO), Susan A. Mohrman (CEO) provides an updated view of the HR consulting marketplace and the types of individuals and consulting firms that occupy it, as well as the organizational actors who purchase and consume HR consulting services.

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Measuring and Maximizing the Impact of Talent Development

Dec 1, 2016 | ,

Alec Levenson addresses the issue that talent development is critical for organizational success. Certainly, if you don’t have the right talent then your business strategy will fail. But what does having the right talent really mean? How do we know when we have it? And if it’s something different than what we’ve always thought it to be, how do we go about developing it?

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The Rise and Fall of Talent Management: Time for Reinvention

Oct 28, 2016 |

Drawing upon research conducted with the Corporate Research Forum, Jay Conger will share the results of a global survey on the current state of talent management. This webinar explores the forces that have been eroding the efficacy of talent management innovations over the last several decades and proposes next steps to begin reinvigorating the field.

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Finding the Talent Pivot-Points that are Strategic to Performance Management

Sep 6, 2016 | , ,

This webinar with John Boudreau will show how the tools and frameworks of “Strategic Partnership with Impact” offer insights to these vitally important strategic questions.

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Rethinking Talent Management Research

Jul 21, 2016 |

For most CEOs, “talent” is at or near the top of their priority list. Yet in our 2016 survey of over 230 organisations, only 17% of respondents rated their organisation as effective in predicting and planning future talent needs. Only 20% were satisfied with the outcomes of their organisation’s Talent Management efforts. This research report draws upon international good practice, including work of leading academics, specialist consultants and experienced practitioners. The findings include practical recommendations and methodologies for improvement.

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