Pre-Conference Workshops: Monday, March 31, 2008

Please click on the links below to learn more:

Workshop A: “How To” Guide for Successfully Attracting & Hiring Passive Candidates
Workshop B: Developing a Talent Management Balanced Scorecard Aligned with Corporate Goals
Workshop C: Master Class: Talent Management for the Closely-Held Corporation
Workshop D: Talent and Succession Management: Cutting Through the Chaos
Workshop E: Building an Employer Brand to Empower Your Recruiting and Retention
Workshop F: Talent and Succession Management: Cutting Through the Chaos

8:00 - 11:00 Workshop A: “How To” Guide for Successfully Attracting & Hiring Passive Candidates

Registration 7:45 am- 8:00 am

Acquiring the Passive Candidate has become critical for today’s recruiting. Companies from all industries are desperate to identify and hire top talent that is qualified, loyal and culturally-fit for their organizations… the allusive passive candidates not looking for a new opportunity. CEO’s and hiring managers know that this talent has the capability of taking their company to the next level, however, most corporate recruiting departments need additional knowledge, skills, or changes made to their recruiting process in order to successfully hire passives.

How You Will Benefit:

Gain a clear understanding of the motivational differences between passive and active candidates.
Understand the importance of utilizing a talent pipeline.
Learn sales methodologies for recruiting success.
Successful strategies for hiring passive candidates.
Identify recruiting process changes required to successfully hire passive candidates.

What Will Be Covered:

Passive candidate hiring strategies in detail which include sample scripts and role playing. Learn the importance of a talent pipeline in your recruiting process, it’s advantages, and how to create one that becomes included in your daily routine. Review the current HR landscape which drives the need for passive candidate talent.

Stephen Lowisz
President & CEO
QUALIGENCE

Stephen’s session at Talent Management Summit received rave reviews – don’t miss him

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8:00 - 11:00 Workshop B: Developing a Talent Management Balanced Scorecard Aligned with Corporate Goals

Registration 7:45 am- 8:00 am

Used by thousands of private, public, and nonprofit organizations around the world, and hailed by Harvard Business Review as one of the 75 most influential business ideas of the 20th century, the Balanced Scorecard is a proven tool in the execution of strategy, and alignment of all employees with organizational goals.

What You Will Learn:

The Balanced Scorecard model from top to bottom providing the vital information you need to know about the Scorecard whether you’re new to the topic or a veteran of the framework.

Factors leading to the prominence of the Balanced Scorecard
Balanced Scorecard fundamentals, including the four perspectives
The Balanced Scorecard and its Relationship to Talent Management
Strategy maps
Performance measures
Success stories
A case study to help you immediately apply the learning
Questions and answers

Susan Williams
EVP Enterprise Process Management
Orion Development Group

Organizations in both the private and public sector have been inspired by Susan’s practical, experience-driven approach. She received perfect scores from participants at our CU Week conference on this topic.

11:15 - 2:15 Workshop C: Master Class: Talent Management for the Closely-Held Corporation

Registration 11:00 am – 11:15 am

Lunch Served

In closely-held organizations, where the management layers are typically few and opportunities to advance can be relatively limited, talent management becomes a trickier business but at least as critical as in more traditional corporate structures. When properly led, a closely-held business can still compete for the best and the brightest, by creating a laser-focused enterprise that fully engages its total workforce, managers and front-line contributors alike. If hiring, grooming, and retaining talent is essential to your closely-held organization’s competitive advantage, this session is for you.

Topics To Be Covered:

Branding Your Culture: Why and How
How Strategy Makes It All Happen
Talent Management: Begin at the Beginning with High-Precision Hiring
The ROI of Executive Coaching in Closely-Held Corporations
Performance Enhancement Systems—the True Test of Your Managers
Leadership: How Do You Prime the Pump?

Bob Drovdlic
Team Leader
tGCP

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2:30 - 5:30 Workshop D: Sourcing Candidates and Winning the Battle for Brain Power: Identifying How You Can Attract and Retain Top Talent

The most important corporate resource over the next 20 years will be smart, sophisticated workforce. The demand for this resource is sure to go up; however, the supply is already dwindling. This session will teach you how to develop a new and relevant Talent Mindset that will aid in retaining top workers and outline a Market Driven Hiring Process that will enable your organization to attract quality candidates.

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT:

Learn how to build a Talent Mindset in your organization and gain executive buy-in.
Identify steps needed to devise innovative hiring processes.
Understand the benefit of a market driven hiring process.
Review the steps that go into a market driven process and how to implement them in your organization.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

Strategies, tactics and case studies that will outline and identify the winning approach to attracting and retaining top talent in any organization

Terry Terhark
President and CEO
THE RIGHTTHING INC

2:30 - 5:30 Workshop E: Building an Employer Brand to Empower Your Recruiting and Retention

Companies today fiercely compete for the same talent pool. One way companies are competing is by building and reinforcing an employer brand that addresses the needs of its targeted employee base. In this session, you will discover how to employ marketing concepts and tools to build your employer brand, position it with your targeted employee base, communicate it to targeted employees and reinforce it with current employees.

How You Will Benefit:

Understand how to apply the concepts of marketing to create an employer brand that will attract the types of employees you need for your business.
Understand the tools that are available to better gauge the needs of your targeted employees and how these potential candidates make career choices.
Learn about how you can start building a compelling employer brand.

What Will Be Covered:

Hear about how marketing plans can be applied to the recruiting and retaining employees. In this workshop you will be familiar with the steps of market analysis critical for creating a compelling employer brand that will work for the needs of your business.

Susan Schaefer
Partner
JIVAROCXO

"Sue Schaefer is a great leader! I can’t think of anyone I would recommend more to help you build your next generation of new leaders". Marshall Goldsmith

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2:30 - 5:30 Workshop F: Talent and Succession Management: Cutting Through the Chaos

You’ve heard it all – high potential, high performer, blocker, successor, talent pool, talent assessment, talent review, talent pools – but what does it all really mean? Attend this session to discuss all of the terminology and actions involved in a talent management process, and how to align the organization’s talent strategy to the business goals.

How You Will Benefit:

Review your organization’s readiness to implement a talent assessment and succession planning process by identifying the “drivers” and your “potential obstacles” in your company.
Learn the most common questions and concerns your leaders will have about the program, and potential responses to these questions.
Discuss ideas for increasing accountability to achieve the desired results of your succession planning and talent management strategy.

What Will Be Covered:

Agreeing on what it all means, i.e. high potential vs. high performer, talent assessment vs. performance reviews, successor vs. high potential vs. talent pools, etc.
Are you ready? Identifying the readiness "drivers" and "potential obstacles" in your organization for implementing succession planning and talent development programs
FAQs about Talent Management –common questions and concerns asked by executives, business leaders, and your human resources partners

Doris Sims, SPHR
Co-Founder and Partner
BUILDING TOMORROW'S TALENT LLC

Workshop includes the interactive facilitated board game activity: The Talent Game, designed to increase your knowledge of talent management strategy, research, and effective responses to business leader concerns about talent and succession planning

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