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Talent Management

Devising Effective Strategies for Recruiting, Training, and Developing your Talent Pool

  • Oct 21-22, 2013 - Edmonton - $2295.00 CDN - Register

This is a 200 series program in the Human Resources stream, worth 2 credits.

Organizations are struggling to find a strategy to counter a series of challenges undermining their core strengths. There is fierce competition for skilled workers, the impending retirement of baby boomers, and low levels of employee engagement. The strategy to face these challenges is talent management, a whole-organization approach to attracting and developing highly skilled employees. Talent management is driven by the need to build a high-performance corporate environment, because at the root of high-performing organizations lie talented employees who produce inspiring solutions and services.

Using a talent management strategy, you can identify the right mix of individuals, plug gaps, and keep the pipeline filled with skilled and motivated workers all aligned with corporate goals. This new program from Canada's people management development specialists will give you a roadmap to building an effective talent management strategy that will turn a potential vulnerability into a competitive edge.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Acquire the skills and knowledge to build an effective talent management strategy for your own organization
  • Discover gaps in your existing recruitment and retention practices
  • Become an important internal resource and advocate on talent management

THEMES

  • Identify the key elements required to build an effective talent management strategy for your organization
  • Learn how to determine the right mix of talent required to execute corporate strategy — now and into the future
  • Develop strategies to identify and fill talent gaps within your organization
  • Determine the best way to on-board new employees
  • Explore the role performance management plays in implementing a well executed talent management strategy
  • Acquire tools and processes for identifying and developing high-potential employees
  • Identify a succession planning strategy that works for your organization

EXPERIENCE AND TOOLS

Interactive learning

Participate in max-mix discussions that offer the opportunity to test your assumptions about what can be done within your own organization.

Takeaways

Receive practical tools and approaches that are easy to take back to the workplace and implement at both the team and organizational levels.

BENEFITS

Organizational benefits

  • Internal resource and advocate for talent management
  • Well-designed and coherent talent management strategy
  • Wide-scale alignment of goals and actions

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

This program has been designed for human resources and organization development professionals and internal consultants with a strategic mindset, who have a role in developing a talent management strategy.

FACILITATORS AND SPEAKERS

Diane Locke

Diane Locke Diane Locke is a senior partner at Ellis Locke & Associates, a Toronto-based management consultancy. She has more than 20 years experience in the areas of leadership development and organizational effectiveness, including both internal and external consulting roles.

Diane's areas of expertise include organization development, training and development, executive assessment, and coaching. She has provided training, coaching, and consulting services to a broad range of organizations in the public and private sectors.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Diane created and led the Leadership Effectiveness Department at American Express, where she was responsible for organizational effectiveness, leadership development, management coaching, employee satisfaction, and internal communication. In addition, she has worked as a professional development specialist at Scotiabank and as a senior associate in one of the premier human resource consulting firms in North America. more...

VENUE AND ACCOMMODATIONS

Edmonton: Varscona (Oct 21-22, 2013)

Queen's University IRC is pleased to present this program at the Varscona Hotel. The facility is located in in South Edmonton on trendy Whyte Avenue. For more information on the facility please visit their website at www.varscona.com.