Bank of America: Action Learning

By Eryn O'Brien /Chief Learning Officer, bank of America

A case study on how Bank of America optimized the investment of learning by creating an action learning approach that develops a cadre of leaders for the organization’s future.

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Cellular One: Employee Retention

By Karen King /BPI Expert

A focused employee retention initiative utilizing career development, management training, team agreements, and employee surveying as tools for creating a preferred place of employment in the telecommunications industry.This case outlines a successful effort used by Cellular One to consciously incre... Read More

Colgate-Palmolive: Training Sales Executives

By Donna McNamara /BPI Expert

This case study outlines a global training program for sales executives that develops business leadership capabilities through training seminars, partnerships with senior managers, and action learning.In this case study, you will find:•    Training Colgate-Palmolive’s Global Sales Leaders•�... Read More

Imasco Limited: Action Learning

By Jay A. Conger /Henry Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership Studies, Claremont McKenna College

This article outlines an action learning-based program that is designed to develop the strategic thinking capabilities of senior and middle management.

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Advanced Micro Devices: Retention Program

By Beth Lama /Leadership Development/Talent Management/Coach, University of the Pacific

A retention program designed to help employees align their interests, values, and skills with rapidly changing business needs through a set of integrated activities.This case study tells a story—born out of necessity—about curtailing anticipated hemorrhaging of outbound talent by proactively add... Read More

Leadership Development Trends and Findings

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

Reflections on seven critical areas of their leadership development systems including: 1. Competitive and Strategic Business Challenges, 2. Leadership Competencies, 3. Most Impactful Key Features of Leadership Training, 4. Critical Success Factors, 5. Evaluation Methods, 6. Money Budgeted for Leader... Read More

Dow Corning: Global Career Development

By Judy Milam Mason /BPI Expert

A Global Career Development Process (Career Fitness) for all employees designed to create a culture for continuous learning and personal responsibility for career growth through career management, coaching, and advising.

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Lockheed Martin: Rapid Change

By Joseph Grenny /Chairman, Co-founder, The Other Side Academy

Big change, fast—that was the demand made on Lockheed Martin’s tactical jet business. The alternative to meeting this change challenge was not only to lose the largest defense contract in history, but also to become a second-tier subcontractor at best, or be put out of business at worst.  This ... Read More

The Mathworks:

By Deborah Slobodnik /Master Coach for Leaders and Teams

This article outlines a "just-in-time" transition to a cross-functional team structure, bolstered by action learning, exposure to senior executives, and team leader rotation, in order to make dramatic improvements in the efficiency of the operations department. In this article you will find: Objecti... Read More

Mattel: Change and Innovation Process

By Ivy Ross /Vice President and Head of Google Glass, Google

This case study describes Mattel’s Project Platypus – a dynamic change and innovation process for bringing out human potential in an organization through the synthesis of collaborative, action-, and results-oriented experiences, resulting in new business opportunities and high-performance produc... Read More

Hewlett-Packard: Learning Performance Measurement

By Kristen Hodges /Talent Acquisition | Recruiter, Capital One

Hewlett-PackardBuilding Learning Performance Measurement MaturityThis case study tells the story of Hewlett-Packard’s Workplace Learning and Performance (WLP) function to significantly improve its maturity in Learning Performance Measurement and how a team of dedicated professionals drove that cha... Read More

Honeywell Aerospace: Six Sigma

By Jeff Osborne /President & CEO, Accumen

The following case study will examine the path of Honeywell’s successful Aerospace business in leveraging Six Sigma as the core productivity strategy that will fuel its aggressive growth plans.  It examines how Honeywell has successfully evolved Six Sigma from a process improvement initiative to ... Read More

Intel: Leadership Development Forum

By Dale Halm /Organization Development Practitioner, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation

This case study describes the systematic approach employed by Intel Corporation’s Fab 12 Organization Development Team (ODT) to successfully launch and innovative, nontraditional way of developing leaders. 1 The ODT works at the manufacturing-site level (not corporate), responding to specific ch... Read More

Microsoft: High Potential Development

By Brian Underhill /Author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders

The opportunity for ongoing learning and development is a commitment Microsoft makes to all employees. Microsoft invests more than $375 million annually in formal education programs directed at the employee, manager, and leader that are offered by the Corporate Learning and Development groups and ot... Read More

Best Practices in Identifying Top Talent/Hi-Potentials

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

• What tools/ frameworks are other companies using to identify high potentials? • How do other companies define potential? (e.g., two-level promotable, personality qualities, learning agility) • How does performance fit into the identification of potential? • What percentage of employees ... Read More

How to Benchmark Talent Agility in a Future Forward Organization

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Agile Behavior and Learning Agility are not the same thing. Agile Thinking assumes organizations are organic. Organizations belong to systems of systems where everything occurs within an evolving context. It relies on teams empowered and enabled to act with ad hoc energy at touchpoints in a process ... Read More

Designing Future-Forward Developmental Conversations

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Going forward, we need a working understanding of “conversation.” It has become the key word in best practices in performance and talent assessment. Common parlance among Human Resources, Training & Development, and Talent Management, their understanding of “conversation” should be broadly s... Read More

Next Practices for Performance and Development Assessment: This is not just any mid-year!

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

This is not just any mid-year! C-suite management struggles to stay its course while dodging threats from COVID-19 — and now civil unrest. Weaving its way through this turmoil, they deal with acquisitions, mergers, scalability, and the arrival of new CEOs. This is a time of high anxiety for leader... Read More

Success profiles for C-suite roles

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Digital transformation seems to permeate every sector and it is no surprise that digital fluency is becoming a game-changing and universal competency of the modern C-Suite Executive. Crisis management and change management also seemed to be crucial requirements of the modern CEO as is the ability... Read More

Success Profiles & Assessments for Field Sales Roles

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

This research looks at the typical competencies and success profiles for Field Sales Roles in market-leading organizations across 5 commercial sectors. What was noticeable in the research was that sales and relationship roles typically had overlapping duties. Read More

Future of Talent Development in the Age of Digitization

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

6 best-in-class cases that prove success in talent transformation in the new era of digitization. Read More

Learning Development Systems for Managers Across Global Organization

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

To support the implementation of new People Practices, Major Organizations need to provide training for over thousands of HR manager distributed across the global organization. The objectives of the training include both an understanding of the new People Practices Philosophies, the technical detail... Read More

BPI Senior Executive Board Research Digital Tools - Using HR Analytics in a Powerful Way

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

This report looks at 6 multinational, blue chip organizations all at slightly different stages of their strategy to deploy HR Analytics and put it at the heart of their decision-making culture. The organizations reviewed in this report are shown below. 1. Google 2. Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) 3. ... Read More

Talent Management Makes Matrix Organizations Work

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

For business to adopt and deliver through a matrix organizational structure, it must make significant deep and broad changes. Some of them include: the alignment of people, performance, and purpose, the design of decision processes and assignment of clear accountabilities, the assessment of and t... Read More

Product Team Organization Design

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

To remain competitive, companies are incorporating more technology and innovating faster than ever. To support the demand, traditional models of the hierarchy have been moving for decades towards flatter, more networked structures. And yet, the size that comes with success continues to challenge the... Read More

GLOBAL TALENT MANAGEMENT TRENDS

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Continued global commercial volatility and unpredictability means talent strategies are constantly evolving. Talent scarcity remains a pressing concerns for most HR principles and this is being reflected by a heavy strategic focus on talent sourcing and retention. Surprisingly, in a time of b... Read More

Retaining Employees in the Liquid Workforce

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

I put the following quick-react-report together in response to questions concerning how to retain employees beyond the first few years in the organization. Read More

Next Generation/Multigenerational Workforce Transformation Research Report

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The global workforce is made up of 4 generations. By 2025 there will be five generations in the workforce. Each generation displays some unique behaviors and how they perform tasks. Although multiple generations in the workforce are not new, the makeup of the workforce and the reliance on technology... Read More

Successful Co-Located Human Resource Business Partner Alignment

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Re-alignment of Human Resource Departments from transactional to the transformational has been taking place for the last 20 years. In the past, HR departments were more of a support organization. Many Senior Managers and Executives believed that Human Resource Departments should be more strategic in... Read More

Best Practices in Consultative Selling, Consensus Building, and Negotiation

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Consultative Selling is a process that builds relationships. It makes sales, but as important, it secures a continuing partnership. The process takes its time to draw specific information from prospects that gives dimension to the customer’s needs and wants. This information then provides the d... Read More

3 Studies in Process Leadership Technology

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Process leadership is a big picture approach, a holistic, whole systems look. It aims to build or re-engineer effective processes and manage them for the delivery of business goals. Read More

Best Practices in Contingent Workforce Transformation

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The US Department of Labor defines a contingent worker as “a temporary member of an organization who does not possess a contract for permanent employment.” Under that guidance contingent workers include, part-time, contractors, on call, workers hired for a specific period, professional employmen... Read More

Successful Co-Located Human Resource Business Partner Alignment

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Re-alignment of Human Resource Departments from transactional to the transformational has been taking place for the last 20 years. In the past, HR departments were more of a support organization. Many Senior Managers and Executives believed that Human Resource Departments should be more strategic in... Read More

Punishment or Development: What is the purpose of Today’s Performance Management Processes?

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Over the last few years, a growing phenomenon in performance management (PM) throughout premier companies such as Adobe, General Electric, and JP Morgan Chase has been exchanging the traditional annual performance review for a system of ongoing development discussions. Why has this phenomenon beg... Read More

4 Keys for Aligning Talent Strategies in Emerging Global Markets

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

When business dictates the next step is stretching outside the U.S., organizations must tread with care. While the company may have a domestic talent strategy, there is much to consider when looking for overseas talent. Each country has its own unique set of challenges, from how to obtain and tra... Read More

Contingent Workforce Research Report

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

This report begins with a discussion of the different options available for managing a global contingent workforce program. The data for the program options were gathered from reports and interviews. The discussion is followed by the interviews, summary of results, recommendations, and list of re... Read More

Most Loved Workplace Research

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

A new study from Best Practice Institute has revealed some surprising results. In a global survey of over 150 Fortune 1000 organizations companies, we’ve shown that employees who love their workplace are up to 4 times more likely to perform at a higher level than those who do not. This reveal dat... Read More

Test and Learns

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

“Test and Learn” is a term given to business practices aimed at accelerating performance. It assumes that learning is largely a heuristic behavior of trial and error. It’s a pragmatic learning experience in which people are satisfied with “good enough” solutions that could be optimal ... Read More

Comparison of Performance Management Vendors

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The following is a survey of tools that enable the employee feedback that supports performance appraisals. The intent is to identify and measure those tools that compete directly with Skillrater. I have found that the “big” tools serve Human Resources and Human Capital Management in extensivel... Read More

Matching Analytics to HR’s Chief Goals

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Almost every aspect of workforce management and top talent identification is viewed as a “high” or “very high” in terms of importance by the HR professionals in our survey. This shows that analytics has the potential to impact talent management at every level but may also signify that anal... Read More

4 Keys for Aligning Talent Strategies in Emerging Global Markets

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

When business dictates the next step is stretching outside the U.S., organizations must tread with care. While the company may have a domestic talent strategy, there is much to consider when looking for overseas talent. Each country has its own unique set of challenges, from how to obtain and tr... Read More

Expatriates/Global Assignments Research Study

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The study seeks to identify the strategic outlook of global organizations on expatriate assignments and their role in organization development and global talent management. Read More

Best/Next Practices in Learning Agility, Talent Capabilities, and Talent Reviews

By Amy Clark /Vice President, Talent Management, Sallie Mae

At Sallie Mae, we have developed a model of how to assess for leadership potential which we will share at this session, along with how we shifted mindsets at Sallie Mae in this area. We will then take a deeper dive into one area - Learning Agility, to learn more about how you are assessing for th... Read More

Best and Next Practices for Performance & Development in 2020

By Sandy Allred /Senior Director, Talent Management, Kimberly Clark

This Senior Executive Board Benchmark-it session will look at how we are approaching Performance and Development given the pandemic, and what changes, if any, are being considered. We will focus on both mid-year discussions and end of year performance guidance and address the following questions tog... Read More

The Future of Hiring & Talent Acquisition

By Peter Cappelli /George W. Taylor Professor of Management and Professor of Education - Director Center for HR

Businesses have never done as much hiring as they do today. They’ve never spent as much money doing it. And they’ve never done a worse job of it. It’s impossible to get better at hiring if you can’t tell whether the candidates you select become good employees. If you don’t know where y... Read More

Why Honest Conversations about Your Organizational Capabilities is the Key to a Winning Strategy

By Michael Beer /Chairman, TruePoint

I will discuss why too many organizations fail to execute their strategy and why they tend to develop a sustainable high commitment, high-performance organization. I will show that failures are due to organizational silence, the difficulty of people to speak truth to power about barriers to organiza... Read More

Creating a Culture of Inclusion Where People Soar

By Judith H. Katz /Owner, The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group

In this session, we’ll discuss the impact of Judging and the need to create a Joining mindset and create a safe environment for inclusion through interaction safety. We will share 4 Conscious Actions for Inclusion that can be easily be practiced and applied. Finally, we will discuss how inclusion ... Read More

What Science Says About Identifying High-Potential Employees

By Seymour Adler /Partner, Leadership Practice, Kincentric

Organizations face the critical challenge of preparing future leaders for an environment that will be increasingly unstable, uncertain, and complex. This session will draw on emerging research to provide approaches and practices to help organizations best identify, recruit, assess, and develop leade... Read More

How Emerging Technologies are Shaping the Future of Work

By Muriel Clauson /Lecturer, Future of Work, Data Science

This session is about how emerging technologies are shaping the future of work. We will unpack how emerging technologies are already beginning to change work in positive ways that our organizations can adopt today. We will explore some of the future of work predictions, where they come from, and how... Read More

Best Practices in Next Generation Leadership

By Lu Young /Director, University of Kentucky Center for Next Generation Leadership

In this interactive benchmarking session, we'll discuss the strategies and tactics necessary to prepare for future talent. In the changing workforce, all areas of talent are affected - the way we teach, the way information is shared, the necessary skills and changing job descriptions. In this sessi... Read More

Seeing Around Corners

By Rita McGrath /Professor and Leader of "Leading Strategic Growth and Change" program, Columbia Business School

In this interactive webinar, Columbia Business School faculty member Rita McGrath will introduce a perspective from her forthcoming book, “Seeing Around Corners.” This will relate to how executives can best position themselves to “see” major changes in their environment. Participants will ... Read More

Real World Emotional Intelligence

By Justin Bariso /Author, EQ Applied: The Real-World Guide to Emotional Intelligence

Justin Bariso is the author of "EQ Applied: The Real-World Guide to Emotional Intelligence." Using fascinating research, breaking news analysis, and personal stories he’ll show what this quality looks like in the real world--and provide a glimpse as to how you can begin making emotions work for yo... Read More

How to Define and Measure Inclusion

By Corie Pauling /Senior Vice President, Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, TIAA Human Resources

During our session, we will unearth the following: * How we define inclusion within our organizations and what methods are used to create a new definition of diversity and inclusion. * What indices are used that to capture inclusion or leadership effectiveness. * At what levels of the organizat... Read More

Project Revolution

By Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez /Author, The Project Revolution

Every aspect of our lives is becoming a set of projects. The speed of change witnessed in the past decade has radically affected the way we organize and manage our companies and work. Many of the traditional activities in organizations will soon be carried out by automation and robots. In this new l... Read More

Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks

By Alan Richter /Board Member, The Centre for Global Inclusion

Alan Richter, Board Member of the Centre of Global Inclusion and the author of Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks will be presenting his updated findings specifically related to OD, Leadership Development and Senior Leadership buy-in. Read More

Women in Leadership: Expanding Influence and Leading Change

By Sally Helgesen /Premier Expert on Women's Leadership | Best-Selling Author | International Speaker

Sally Helgesen is the bestselling author of seven books including her latest book, "How Women Rise," co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith. In this session, Sally will draw on decades of stories and insights to identify the twelve most common habits that undermine women in their quest to become more s... Read More

Talent Alignment During Leadership Change

By Sandy Ogg /Former CHRO, Unilever and Board Member, INSEAD, CEO.works

During times of leadership change, full alignment between management and employees is more important than ever to create a successful corporate culture. In this session, we'll investigate how business leaders can act as the driving force to creating a strong corporate culture, and an environment whe... Read More

Digital Tools - Using HR Analytics in a Powerful Way

By Agnes Johansen /Vice President People and Leadership, Equinor

HR needs to become a more active business partner to leaders in helping them make more informed leadership decisions. In order to do so, HR must take part in the process of providing data in a highly participative and contextual manner. In an effort to become better at using digital tools for HR an... Read More

What Leaders need to know in order to create and sustain an agile organizational culture

By Mary Eggers /Senior Partner and co-developer of “Whole-Scale® Change.”, Dannemiller Tyson Associates (DTA)

Working with organizations around the globe, we have found it universally true that people support what they help to create. This session focuses on a few of the robust Whole-Scale® principles and models that support an agile, empowered culture. Read More

Agile Transformation

By Mary Tabata /Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School & Senior Research Associate, Best Practice Institute

It’s common to think about how Agile Frameworks transform our development and process life cycles. But how can Agile Thinking transform the culture of our whole organization? Innovating ways to bring Agile to whole systems can create breakthrough change and engage stakeholder on all levels. ... Read More

From Immersion to Presence: How AR and VR Will Revolutionize Your Learning

By Anders Gronstedt, Ph.D. /President, The Gronstedt Group, Inc.

VR and AR are here. Apple ARKit and Google ARCore are turning two billion phones into a magic lens that can arm your workforce with superpowers. Full-body VR offers a digital rehearsal space of such convincing verisimilitude that learners feel they are actually there. How are Fortune 500 companies d... Read More

Create a Culture of Connection

By Michael Lee Stallard /Expert on how effective leaders boost human connection in cultures to improve performance, Meyer Partners

Leaders who develop and maintain a workplace culture infused with connection so that people feel included, supported and part of the team, see a marked difference in performance. Employees who feel connected to people at work are not only healthier and happier, they are also more productive, more en... Read More

The Generation Creative Leader

By Bruce Cryer /Founder of Renaissance Human

Bruce Cryer draws upon a diverse professional background in business management, leadership development, and resilience training, along with refined artistic skills as a singer, writer, dancer, and photographer in helping people find their creative brilliance in business and personal life. Bruc... Read More

Leadership Lexicon

By Richard Bellingham /Executive Coaching and HR Management Consulting, iobility

The idea is to frame all leadership competencies in a two dimensional grid. On the x axis are the 3 meta-skills of leadership: Identify, Build, and Drive. On the y axis are the four dimensions of leadership: Know and Grow Yourself, Know and Grow Your Team, Know and Grow your Organization, and Kn... Read More

B State: Transforming Your Business and Culture in Rapid Time to Achieve Breakthrough Measurable Results

By Mark Samuel /AuthorFounder | CEO | Rapid Culture Change | Award Winning Author | Speaker | Rapid Breakthrough Results, IMPAQ Corporation

Businesses, especially global ones, are challenged to keep pace with the speed of change in their industry. Emerging competition, regulatory standards, M&A’s, new technology, and changing customer demands are forcing organizations to rethink their business models, corporate culture, organizational... Read More

Best Practices in Finding & Retaining Skilled Workers in Challenging Environments

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Filling the talent pipeline for skilled workers can be a challenge. Talent acquisition should not hold back growth for technology-enabled manufacturing. How can organizations find and retain talent in challenging environments? Companies are thinking creatively to find ways to address talent short... Read More

Best Practices Next Generation/Multi-Generational Workforce Transformation Research

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

What kind of flexibility, agility, and changes are needed to acquire, hire, develop, and enable the high performance of the next generation/multi-generational workforce? Read More

Talent 2.0: Shifting to Human Capital

By Michael Arena /VP Talent & Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Michael Arena shares his insights from his book, Adaptive Space which describes how connections, ideas, information, and resources allow for greater innovation and adaptability in your organization. Read More

BPI Research Presentation - Best Practices in Talent Management Transformation

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The BPI Senior Executive Board holds a benchmarking and dialogue session the second Tuesday of each month. Come prepared to learn and share your knowledge and expertise - as well as take part in BPI's process of team development and transformation online. Each Senior Executive Board member may bring... Read More

BPI Research Presentation - Best Practices In Contingent Workforce Transformation

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

The BPI Senior Executive Board holds a benchmarking and dialogue session the second Tuesday of each month. Come prepared to learn and share your knowledge and expertise - as well as take part in BPI's process of team development and transformation online. Each Senior Executive Board member may bring... Read More

BPI Research Presentation - HR Business Partner Alignment

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

The BPI Senior Executive Board holds a benchmarking and dialogue session the second Tuesday of each month. Come prepared to learn and share your knowledge and expertise - as well as take part in BPI's process of team development and transformation online. Each Senior Executive Board member may bring... Read More

Best Practice Benchmark-it - Transforming Culture after Merger, Acquisition and major change

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Enabling our company to transform after a merger/acquisition/major change, yet harnessing the existing momentum and bringing them along. Read More

Benchmark-It Webinar: Employee Learning & Development

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Many organizations shifting to centralizing operations, infrastructure, and methods, purposefully tie learning and experiences to programs and business objectives, and customize learning through virtual learning tools, mobile accessibility, apps, short burst videos, and more. In an organizational se... Read More

Best Practices in Social Learning Tools & Engagement

By Kimo Kippen /Learning Advocate, Speaker, Talent Development & Education Consultant, Aloha Learning Advisors.

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Intentional Leadership

By Bpi /Learning and Leadership Development Staff, Best Practice Institute

Join us in sharing intentional leadership practices, communication and accountability strategies. Read More

Benchmarking Best of Best Practices

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

Best Practice benchmarking is a critical first step toward developing and designing a leading edge program, system, or intervention within your organization. Before you venture out on your own to diagnose your own system, or if you have already begun designing, it is sage advice to look externally t... Read More

Benchmark-it Session with BP: Engaging, Driving, and Aligning the Learning Community and Strategy through One Integrated Learning Architecture

By Rita Vanhauwenhuyse /VP Talent & Learning, BP

BP has a strong multi-year roadmap that will strengthen its current learning landscape for both learners and the business. With strong executive support, this initiative will aim to integrate its learning architecture. During this session, we will engage in active advice, benchmarking, and discussi... Read More

Cigna: Enabling Customer Centricity through Crowdsourcing, Storytelling, and Global Collaboration

By Karen Kocher /General Manager, Microsoft, 21st Century Jobs, Skills and Employability, Microsoft

Karen Kocher, Chief Learning Officer at Cigna will present the business need, design, and implementation of programs and practices that support and empower customer centricity at Cigna. Her passion for creating social collaboration through smart mob organizing and adding global effectiveness through... Read More

Talent Pulse Check: BPI Uncovers Best and Next Practice Talent Programs

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

Join Louis Carter and Christi O'Neill as they reveal the best and next practices of 2013, based on BPI research and conversations. Learn what organizations are doing to promote transparency through talent programs and data planning. Engage and share your talent challenges and success stories! Read More

The New Leader's Playbook

By George Bradt /Executive onboarding expert - helps new leaders and teams deliver Better Results Faster

Leadership transitions are some of the toughest challenges people face – professionally and personally. Nearly half of new leaders fail in their first 18 months. Often, those failures are the result of crucial mistakes made in the very beginning that can be devastating for organizations and leader... Read More

Trends in OnBoarding

By B. Lynn Ware, PhD . /BPI Expert, Integral Talent Systems, Inc.

You’ve hired the best. Now how do you get them up to speed? Join us to learn the latest in on-boarding best practices, including the use of scalable gamification technology and other self service platforms for engaging the new hire so they can grasp the knowledge and skills they need to perfor... Read More

How to Lead Different Generations: Are You Ready for Generation Y?

By Martina Mangelsdorf /Managing Director and Founder, GAIA Insights GmbH

Whether you like it or not, the demographic shift is happening and Generation Y (born 1980 – 1995) is coming to the forefront of the workforce. This generation differs from any previous demographic population because “Gen Y” grew up in an era shaped by conditions unheard of before: from digita... Read More

Understanding and Capturing the Power of Onboarding Done Well

By Michael Hamilton /Senior Business Executive, Retired Partner,, Ernst & Young

Michael Hamilton is Chief Learning & Development Officer at Ernst & Young Read More

Tactics for Change Leaders

By Deborah Slobodnik /Master Coach for Leaders and Teams

Change is a process, not an event. The real challenge comes during implementation when changes in behavior are required to support the critical business goals. Desired behavioral shifts need to happen at the leadership, team and individual levels, such as increased personal accountability, more tran... Read More

Crack the Code: Optimizing the Investment in Learning at Bank of America

By Eryn O'Brien /Chief Learning Officer, bank of America

Over the past several years, the global economy has sunk into recession, the financial services industry has experienced extreme challenges, and Bank of America is reshaping itself to meet new economic realities. Much has changed since the Crack the Code recommendations were presented yet implementa... Read More

Add Story Power to Your Talent Management & Development Process

By Diane Senffner /CEO, Cine Learning Productions

Smart employers use stories to amplify the effectiveness of all aspects of their talent management and development process, including employer branding, new hire orientation, employee engagement, training, and coaching. Companies with great Employer Brands use stories to communicate what makes th... Read More

Onboarding: Making the First 90 Days Really Count

By Deborah Slobodnik /Master Coach for Leaders and Teams

Most research has proven that the first 90 days are critical to the success of a new leader. Too often they fail to make an impression, or come on too strong, neither of which is effective. Getting oriented to a new job, new culture, new people is key. Most onboarding programs do not provide all the... Read More

How To Effectively Transfer Knowledge with LEAN Learning

By Todd Hudson /Head Maverick,, Maverick Institute

The vast majority of corporate training activities are waste; 85% to 99% waste by some estimates. They don't improve learning and retention and don’t lead to performance improvements. With slashed budgets and staff levels at all time lows, executives can’t afford employees sitting in classrooms,... Read More

Evidence-Based Management and Development of Human Capital

By Haig Nalbantian /Senior Partner, Mercer, well-known authority on Human Capital Measurement and Management

Haig Nalbantian is Senior Partner and Founder/Leader of Mercer Workforce Sciences Institute Read More

The Formula for High Performance: How Top Companies Drive Business Results with Trust, Leadership, and Collaboration

By Andy Atkins /Senior Vice President, Research & Innovative Practices

In this webinar, Andy will show how the combination of high trust, strong leadership and expert collaboration directly links to outstanding business performance. He will cover the three important factors on which people base their trust. Andy also will share best practices in building trust--- inclu... Read More

Three Keys to Attracting & Recruiting Talent in the New Normal

By Jennifer McClure /CEO | Keynote Speaker | I help leaders build careers that they love & lives that matter, Unbridled Talent & DisruptHR

As the economy attempts to crawl out of recession and businesses begin to focus on growth and opportunity, recruiting leaders are faced with new challenges in regards to attracting and recruiting top talent in an increasing competitive environment. Whether your organization needs to cultivate a ... Read More

How to Become an Ideal Leader

By John Spence /Executive Consultant, Trainer and Author, John Spence LLC

The session will look at the new trends in what high-performance employees look for in an “Ideal Leader.” Based on John Spence’s work as a leadership instructor and coach to firms such as Microsoft, Qualcomm, Abbott Labs, Merrill Lynch, and several other Fortune 500 firms and a recent Global L... Read More

Leadership Sustainability: 7 Disciplines That Get Things Done

By David Ulrich /Speaker, Author, Professor, Thought Partner on HR, Leadership, and Organization, The RBL Group

David Ulrich and Norm Smallwood are Partners at The RBL Group Read More

Leadership for Sustainability and the Importance of Systems Change

By Peter Senge /Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sustainability is not a problem to be solved. It is a future to be created. True leadership is about cultivating the collective capacity so that people shape futures they truly desire. In this webinar, Peter Senge will offer insights and practical methods for leaders across sectors who are seeking t... Read More

50 Ways to Develop Yourself as a Leader - 3

By Steve Arneson /President, Arneson Leadership Consulting

Leaders at all levels today are busy – often times, too busy to develop their leadership skills. And in this challenging business climate, companies aren’t spending as much on leadership development. What’s a leader to do? How can you break through and take your own leadership game to the next... Read More

Business Acumen for the HR and OD Professional

By Wendy Heckelman /President, WLH Consulting, Inc.

HR professionals need to better understand the business to act as strategic business partners. HR professionals need “business acumen” to draw sound conclusions from business information. More importantly, they need to take the actions needed to drive organizational results. In this webinar, We... Read More

LEAN Learning: How to Effectively Transfer Knowledge

By Todd Hudson /Head Maverick,, Maverick Institute

The vast majority of corporate training activities are waste; 85% to 99% waste by some estimates. They don't improve learning and retention and don’t lead to performance improvements. With slashed budgets and staff levels at all time lows, executives can’t afford employees sitting in classrooms,... Read More

A New Approach to Leadership Development and Employee Engagement

By Marshall Goldsmith /#1 Leadership Thinker, Exec Coach, NYT Bestselling Author. Dartmouth Tuck Professor Mgmt Practice

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior. In this fast-paced, interactive session, he will build upon three independent research studies to illustrate why the key to effective leadership development is the leader – not t... Read More

Organization Learning in Today’s Business Environment: Newell-Rubbermaid

By Brian Hults /Vice President of Organization and People Development

Brian Hults is Vice President Organization and People Development at Newell-Rubbermaid. Brian shares information on Newell-Rubbermaid's Learning Culture and Succession Planning. Read More

50 Ways to Develop Yourself as a Leader - 2

By Steve Arneson /President, Arneson Leadership Consulting

Leaders at all levels today are busy – oftentimes, too busy to develop their leadership skills. And in this challenging business climate, companies aren’t spending as much on leadership development. What’s a leader to do? How can you break through and take your own leadership game to the next ... Read More

Developing Talent at Every Level: Learning Experiences Across Disciplines (LEAD)

By James E. Lantzy /BPI Expert

The Learning Experiences Across Disciplines (LEAD) program was designed to help leaders provide continuous learning opportunities and develop leaders at all levels within one of the world's largest civilian intelligence agencies. You will learn the details of the LEAD program - and specifically how ... Read More

Experiential Learning for Innovation and Culture Change

By Paul Kwiecinski /Managing Partner, Face The Music

Retention and integration of training and development programs is an ongoing issue, as the well-crafted design and agenda have to withstand the heat and friction of re-entry into the day-to-day demands of the work atmosphere. And if you are looking for innovation and a shift in culture, you need pow... Read More

Why We Struggle to Work Together… What to Do About It

By Ralph Jacobson /Founder of The Leader's Toolbox, coach, author, speaker, The Leader's Toolbox

Organization life is often experienced as a high stakes drama with different departments, divisions, teams, and leaders tugging at one another for resources, time, and money. Often the fight is presumed to be about personality differences, power struggles, and ineffective leadership. So we invest th... Read More

Maximizing Your Talent Pool Through Coaching

By Brad Agry /Principal of CareerTeam Partners, Executive Coach and Corporate Trainer

There was a time when coaching was considered something remedial---a kind of stop-gap measure to take care of “problem” managers. The fact is, nowadays many new hires with high potential actually are negotiating the ongoing services of a coach as part of their acceptance packages! This powerful ... Read More

Achieving Business Excellence

By John Spence /Executive Consultant, Trainer and Author, John Spence LLC

Based on John Spence’s extensive personal business experience and combined with more than 14 years of in-depth research and rigorous benchmarking studies of the best practices at top corporations around the world, this information intensive webinar is designed specifically to “shake up the think... Read More

Applying Emotional Intelligence to Identify Star-Performers

By Reuven Bar On /Independent Research Professional, Bar-On Consulting

Transforming leaders and their organizations is BPI’s vision and mission, which implies that we are dedicated to creating positive organizational change. This necessitates finding, hiring, promoting, and developing the right people to make organizations more pleasant and desirable places in which ... Read More

An Innovative Action Learning Leadership Process

By Greg Zlevor /President, Westwood International

What is action learning? Why is action learning so effective as both a change management and a leadership development initiative? What makes the global program at Johnson and Johnson so innovative? These questions and others will be discussed during this informative webinar. During this program ... Read More

Helping Successful Leaders Get Even Better: What Got You Here Won't Get You There! And Microsoft's Exceptional Potential Coaching Program Case Study

By Marshall Goldsmith /#1 Leadership Thinker, Exec Coach, NYT Bestselling Author. Dartmouth Tuck Professor Mgmt Practice

Presented by Marshall Goldsmith, named one of the 50 greatest living business thinkers by the Times-London and author of 23 New York Times best-selling books, including What Got You Here Won't Get You There. Microsoft Presenters: Brian Underhill and Carol Hedley In this fast-paced, interactive s... Read More

The Proper Way to Teach Work Readiness

By Jay Goldberg /CEO, DTR Inc

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of venues teaching work readiness. However, in survey after survey, and focus group after focus group, business owners and senior management still complain about the work readiness skills of their new (and existing) employees. This is because in the vast majorit... Read More

Improving Time to Productivity with World-Class Onboarding & Orientation for New Hires and Transfers

By John Sullivan /Speaker, Advisor to Management, Author and Professor

In times of economic turbulence few things are more important than keeping employees laser focused and productive. Unfortunately, turbulence outside the organization often creates turbulence inside. During such times, some organizations are forced to cut labor costs, restructure teams, shift work fr... Read More

Why Create a High Performance Coaching Culture

By Thomas G. Crane /Leadership Consultant, Speaker, Author and Facilitator, Crane Consulting

In a COACHING CULTURE, all members of the culture courageously engage in candid, respectful coaching conversations, unrestricted by reporting relationships, about how they can improve their working relationships and individual and collective work performance. All have learned to value and effectivel... Read More

The Neuroscience of Leadership: New Research Explains Why Change is Hard and How to Make it Easier

By David Rock /CEO, NeuroLeadership Institute

New research is emerging from neuroscience that provides insights into some of today’s biggest leadership challenges. Scientists are beginning to provide answers to issues such as how to more effectively make decisions and solve problems, stay cool under pressure, get on with others, and drive cha... Read More

From Execution to Innovation: Strategically Enhancing Organizational Learning Through Technology

By Clark Quinn /Learning Technology Design & Strategy, Quinnovation

Organizations are trying to improve their execution, and increasingly recognizing that innovation is the key to competitiveness, yet their support for these are largely idiosyncratic and certainly not integrated. In client engagements across a number of Fortune 500 companies and major technology or... Read More

Positive Deviance Approach for Behavior and Social Change From the Inside Out

By Jerry Sternin /BPI Expert

Traditional expert-driven models for individual, social and organizational change often don’t work. Like the human immune system, individuals, communities and institutions such as MOH, hospitals reject what is perceived as “foreign matter”. When “experts” provide strategies for individual ... Read More

The Amazing Way Google Manages Talent

By John Sullivan /Speaker, Advisor to Management, Author and Professor

If you need to be the dominate player in your talent market, you should begin your effort by benchmarking against the world’s first true “talent machine”… Google. Google has, in a handful of years, become the #1 employment brand, securing on their first attempt the top spot on FORTUNE magazi... Read More

Realized Development: Moving Beyond Hope

By Larry Peters /Professor Emeritus, TCU and Owner, consultant

This webinar will focus on moving from what we do to develop our people to “realized development” – to identify barriers that make transfer to real work application difficult and to help identify how to move to what Dr. Peters calls the “development space,” where real learning takes place.... Read More

Making Organizations Adaptable: Building a Leadership Development Agenda that Works

By Ralph Jacobson /Founder of The Leader's Toolbox, coach, author, speaker, The Leader's Toolbox

Finding the traditional leadership development approaches inadequate to meet the ever increasing leadership challenges, Ralph created The Leader’s Toolbox®. He will show us how to build companies of leaders by teaching them how to tackle the difficult challenges they face—-forever. He turns con... Read More