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The Rise and Fall of Talent Management: Time for Reinvention

Oct 28, 2016 | Talent Management

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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Workforce Engagement: Why it Matters, What it is, and What Drives it

Oct 21, 2016 | Employee Engagement

In this webinar with Ben Schneider dove into employee engagement. Ben showed how company-level employee engagement—workforce engagement—gets reflected in future financial and customer satisfaction outcomes, discuss what drives engagement, and how a culture of engagement can get created in companies to produce important strategic consequences.

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Why High Performance Work Design Trumps Employee Engagement

Oct 15, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Organization Design, Performance Management, Sponsor Content

In this article Alec Levenson (CEO) takes an in-depth look at high performance, how it’s related to and different from engagement, and what leaders have to do to develop and sustain high performance.

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Presenting the ERG Impact Model

Oct 6, 2016 | Culture, Employee Resource Groups

In this webinar Theresa Welbourne reviews data from the most recent ERG research and survey work. Using results from 50 different companies we examine findings that help us explore how ERGs are impacting their businesses, members and company employees.

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Alec Levenson talks with Talent10x on creating a high-performance culture

Oct 5, 2016 | Performance Management, Talent Management

In the latest episode of Talent10x, Managing Editor Frank Kalman talks with Alec Levenson, a senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, on the value of high-performance work design and why CEOs need to pay more attention to the value of team, not individual, performance.

New CEO-WorldatWork Monograph on Cutting-Edge Performance Management

Sep 19, 2016 | Performance Management

This monograph by Ledford, G., Benson, G., and Lawler, E. provides a comprehensive report of findings from a large-scale study of cutting-edge performance management practices. It covers several topics not discussed in other papers, such as detail on types of organizations that adopt cutting edge practices and change management issues in implementing these practices.

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

Sep 6, 2016 | Performance Management, Strategic HR, Talent Management

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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Winning the Service Game

Aug 24, 2016 | Employee Engagement

Learn why service quality is important and takeaway tools for creating a service climate. Benjamin Schneider will present guidelines on what it takes to deliver outstanding service based on company examples and decades of research.

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Shouldn’t You Be Working Right Now?

Aug 10, 2016 | Performance Management, Sponsor Content

John Boudreau (CEO) share how most HR and management systems presume that maximizing meritocracy and differentiation between performance levels is always a good thing. Leaders would do well to question that assumption, and to become as savvy about performance differentiation as they are about differentiation when it comes to customers, financial investments and operations.

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The Emerging Role of HR Leaders and the Future of HR

Aug 2, 2016 | Future of HR

Ian Ziskin will lead a conversation about the evolution of HR leadership and the future of the function, including capabilities required for success, what you need to know, with whom you need to interact, and when you are most likely to experience development.

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Rethinking Talent Management Research

Jul 21, 2016 | Talent Management

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.

Blog: Why the Conventional Wisdom About Job-Hopping Millennials Is Wrong

Jun 22, 2016 | Talent Management

Millennials are frequently derided as job-hopping slackers who prefer “gigs” to careers and don’t think about job security because they are happy moving from company to company. But Jennifer Deal’s research shows the conventional wisdom is wrong.

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