Talent Management Bootcamp: The A to Z Strategy for Recruiting, Interviewing, Coaching, Mentoring, and Engaging Talent

Talent Management Bootcamp Recording

What are you doing to dynamically transform the way your organization gets the maximum value from every employee? Where is your next great employee hiding, and what are you doing to develop her confidence, moral, and commitment? Why do so many onboarding programs fail -- and what are you doing to ensure yours doesn't? How is your organization using social media?

With hundreds or even thousands of applicants for one job opening, it's easy to become overwhelmed. How do you sort through your inbox of resumes to find the right candidate? And what about your current employees? With a recent survey revealing that 84 percent of employees are ready to jump ship if a better opportunity presents itself, how do you keep your top producers with you for the long haul?

As organizations begin to hire again, HR managers find themselves struggling to answer these questions and more. The level of job uncertainty is high nowadays for everyone, regardless of whether or not you're the employer or the employee. Employees are looking for jobs where they can have a reasonable work-life balance, and employers are trying to find motivated employees who are willing to stick around for a while. As an HR manager, you need to figure out the best way to bridge this gap and match the right candidate to the right job. It's also necessary to balance your recruitment efforts with an innovative strategy to keep your current employees engaged, productive, and happy -- and to do it all while keeping an eye on your organization's bottom line. Whew! >p?Participate in this half-day interactive extended webinar, and you'll learn:

• Tips for expanding your ability to find and source the right people
• Why having an engaged workforce is vitally important to staying competitive in today’s marketplace
• How to improve communications throughout the organization and accomplish the goals that have been set
• Key components of the succession planning process
• How to identify individual motivating factors
• Real-world examples of how leading companies are using participation and social media to engage current and future employees
• And much, much more

Boot Camp Schedule 
(All times below are Eastern – please adjust for your time zone.)

Session 1: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 
Steps to a First-Class Selection Process

• Powerful facts about the real impact when employees are engaged or not engaged in their work
• Why having an engaged workforce is vitally important to staying competitive in today’s marketplace
• How to hire the right people, which can significantly improve the productivity and profitability of your organization
• The importance of having properly written job descriptions
• Tips for expanding your ability to find and source the right people
• How to conduct behaviorally structured interviews
• Techniques for technical and behavioral assessments
• How to effectively and legally use background checks
• How to build a linked compensation, bonus, benefits, and reward systems
• Best practices for legal hiring

Session 2: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. 
Performance Growth Plans: A Performance Management System That Actually Improves Productivity and Engages Employees

In this session, you'll learn how to:.

• Address the link between the job description and the performance development planning process
• Conduct a performance discussion, including why they fail and how to make them work
• Improve communications throughout the organization and accomplish the goals that have been set
• Develop a personal growth plan with an action plan that puts the accountability on the employee
• Create a compensation system that rewards performance not entitlement
• Implement a process to link the operational, financial, and marketing goals with the employees who need to carry them out

Break: 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m 

Session 3: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. 
Coaching and Mentoring

• The purpose and benefits of coaching
• Qualities effective coaches possess and how to instill them
• Attributes of the formal and informal coaching sessions
• How to identify individual motivating factors
• How to coach different types of performers -- the top, average, and needs-improvement segments
• Tips for recognizing and identifying intergenerational communication styles

Session 4: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 
Grooming Future Leaders and Succession Planning

• Purpose and benefits of a succession plan -- no matter the size of the organization
• Key components of the succession planning process
• How to assess your current talent to determine potential leadership within the rank and file
• Key attributes good leaders share and how to help new business leaders excel in these areas
• How to effectively work succession planning into your organization’s overall culture

Break: 3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. 

Session 5: 3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. 
Using Social Media to Engage Current and Future Employees

• The latest trends, such as social networking, mobile devices, and video games, which are changing expectations about communications both in and out of the organization
• How to proactively plan for these trends to optimize employee engagement at your organization
• Real-world examples of how leading companies are using participation and social media to engage current and future employees
• How to leverage participation in social media at your organization to address engagement challenges
• Tips for taking advantage of the potential of social media while managing the risks

Talent Management Bootcamp: The A to Z Strategy for Recruiting, Interviewing, Coaching, Mentoring, and Engaging Talent

About Your Speakers:

Alison Davis is the chief executive officer of Davis & Company, a New-Jersey-based consulting firm that helps companies reach, engage, and motivate employees to achieve business success. A sought-after speaker on communication issues, Ms. Davis has appeared at such organizations as The Arthur W. Page Society, The Conference Board, International Association of Business Communicators, The Public Relations Society of America, and the Society for Human Resource Management.

Douglas S. Duncan, president of Your HR Solutions, Inc., has 30 years of experience in business planning and human resources, working to enhance and improve companies and organizations. His clients include companies in a wide variety of industries including commercial and residential painting contractors, supermarket, coffee service and beverage, dental, roofing, restaurant, hotels, insurance, manufacturing, technology, construction, architecture businesses and non-profit organizations.

Mary Anne Kennedy is the principal consultant at MAKHR Consulting, LLC, a New Jersey based full-service human resources advisory firm. MAKHR Consulting provides small to medium sized business owners and employers with the full spectrum of HR services and programs, including all aspects of talent acquisition.

Julie Weissbach is a Project Director at Davis & Company. Since joining the firm in 2001, Ms. Weissbach has used her in-depth knowledge of technology and design to provide consulting and implementation support to a number of clients, including Johnson & Johnson, Merck and NII/Nextel