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While there may be widespread acceptance that ‘learning’ is, and will continue to be, a key differentiation between short and long term business success, there are few definitive answers as to HOW this learning can occur. new generation of employees and manage The unique learning styles and pref... Read More

Innovation in the Chicago YMCA

By Robin Cook /"The Organizational Development Guy", Project work

With roughly 5,000 employees at 34 Ys (including 5 resident camps) serving roughly 1,000,000 people per year, the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago is the world’s largest YMCA.  We serve a substantial portion of Northeastern Illinois, ranging from the Wisconsin border to Southern suburbs 30 miles from... Read More

Restoring Hope During Times of Mistrust

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

Widely recognized as the founder of the Whole-Scale™ change process, Kathleen Dannemiller and her partners Mary Eggers and Lorri Johnson teach us through tried and true experiences, models, and tools of societal and organizational change, that hope can be restored even during the most “untrustin... Read More

Integrated Talent Management and How to Get There

By Andy Rice /Principal and Lead Strategist at Black Box Consulting

Description Many companies are familiar with the benefits of Integrated Talent Management. As compelling as these benefits are, corporate HR organizations often remain in silos as they struggle to find a path to Talent Management integration. In this session, Talent Management Strategy expert Andy R... Read More

Driving Change Through Career Models: an Operating System for Integrated Talent Management

By David White /Co-Founder, Ontos Global

Ask yourself this question: what function in your company is ideally suited to lead a corporate culture and business transformation?  Strategic Planning? Finance? Marketing?   If you answered “HR”, you would, like me, be in the minority who see the function’s potential and yet are continua... Read More

Trends in Talent Acquisition

By Lizz Pellet /VIce President of Felix Global

Felix Global, in conjunction with PGi, launched a study in May, 2012 about current trends in Talent Acquisition. Our goal was to collect information on what companies are doing, and not doing around sustainability as it relates to Human Resources. The study was broken down into these categories:1. S... Read More

A Common Tool and Language

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

This article, written by Ralph Jacobsen, describes how the majority of leadership development activities fail to significantly improve organization performance. This article reveals that it may be highly beneficial to shift the emphasis from developing individual leaders’ skills to developing shar... Read More

Top Five Do's and Don'ts of Talent Development

By Brian Fishel /SVP Talent Management, Key Bank

Whether in times of boom or bust, finding effective leaders to fill management roles is always a priority.  In the current business climate, the combination of an unpredictable market and a workforce culture that values company loyalty and longevity far less than it used to makes effective leadersh... Read More

The Top Five Dos and Don'ts of Talent Development

By Brian Fishel /SVP Talent Management, Key Bank

Whether in times of boom or bust, finding effective leaders to fill management roles is always a priority.  In the current business climate, the combination of an unpredictable market and a workforce culture that values company loyalty and longevity far less than it used to makes effective leadersh... Read More

Early Career Experience: How BD Develops Global, Customer-Focused Leaders

By Edward Franzone /Senior Director of Worldwide Learning and Development, BD

The Early Career Experience is designed to accelerate the career development and networking of its members. As a result of completing this program, we wanted participants to (1) gain an understanding of BD's varied businesses; (2) build a personal network that crosses BD's worldwide businesses, func... Read More

A Case of Success for Edison International: An Enterprise-Wide Workforce Planning Process

By /Senior Director of Worldwide Learning and Development, BD

Michael Manning, Sr. Manager of Strategic Workforce Planning, Human Capital Analytics & Employee Engagement at Edison International, has created a case study that is intended to provide the reader an overview on how enterprise-wide workforce planning was successfully launched at Edison Interna... Read More

Scripps: Integrated Talent Management

By Robyn M. Hildal /Vice President, Talent and Diversity, The E. W. Scripps Company

Over the years, Scripps existed as a series of small businesses charged with serving the needs of their local markets.  With this charge came autonomy resulting in each small business addressing its mission in various unique ways as was the case with the way employees were managed.  Generally, Scr... Read More

InterContinental Hotels Group: Global Operations

By Andrew Simpson /Principal, Delta Consulting & Engineering

Separation from The Bass Holding Company required a new strategy for the future InterContinental Hotels Group. As Treasurer, Richard Winter put it “We’ve been running a global hotel business like a regional pub business.”  A team had drawn up a strategy for the new business.  Peter Gowers, E... Read More

CK Witco: Change Management

By Keith Montgomery /BPI Expert

An innovative 5-month project to redesign work at a plant site that incorporates such change management tools as balanced scorecard, stratgic analysis, process design, competency-based training, and performance gap analysis to improve operations.This case study discusses a work redesign project for ... 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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SmithKline Beecham

By June Abramson /BPI Expert

In 1989, SmithKline Beecham was formed through the merger of SmithKline Beckman Corporation, located in Philadelphia, PA, and The Beecham Group in London. Beecham had comparatively few programs in the way of human resources development, while SmithKline Beckman had a process but no consistency in ho... Read More

CK Witco

By Keith Montgomery /BPI Expert

An innovative 5-month project to redesign work at a plant site that incorporates such change management tools as balanced scorecard, stratgic analysis, process design, competency-based training, and performance gap analysis to improve operations.This case study discusses a work redesign project for ... Read More

Bose Corporation: Competency-based Leadership Development

By John C. Ferrie /Managing Director, NRS Global Partners, LLC

This article outlines a competency-based leadership development system for the first line, middle, and senior-level managers that is designed to develop a leadership pipeline.In this article you will find:•    Company Description•    Building a Business Case for Leadership Development• ... Read More

Emmis Communications: Change Management Process

By John Nelson /President, BT+L Partners

This article is a change management process for creating and implementing a distinctive firm brand and fostering a unique employer-of-choice culture while driving performance, accountability and innovation to higher levels.  Initiative leverages executive strategic planning and alignment, leadershi... Read More

SmithKline Beecham:Assessment-driven Program

By /President, BT+L Partners

This article outlines a personal change and assessment-driven program that is designed for leadership development and succession planning in a post-merger environment.In this article you will find:•    Creating a Team to Design the Leadership Development Planning Process•    Data Gathering... Read More

AlliedSignal, Inc. (Honeywell): 360° Assessments

By /President, BT+L Partners

A 360° assessment-based leadership development initiative for leaders at all levels of the organization, designed to work in conjunction with the organization’s human resource strategic plan and performance management process. Introduction/Background AlliedSignal is an advanced technology and m... Read More

Army Management Staff College: Leadership Development

By Ursula G. Lohmann /Director,, Consultancy for Education, Training, and Development

A technical/operational, assessment, and strategic-based leadership development program designed to develop high potential civilian employees and military officers in a changing environment.Leaders and managers must know the skills of leading and managing, but most importantly, they must know their ... 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

McDonald's Talent Case Study

By Donald Crosby /BPI Expert

Enhancing the Talent Management System to Support McDonald’s Global GrowthSince 2001 McDonald’s has introduced a series of significant changes to its HR systems to strengthen the organization’s capability to develop the quantity and quality of leadership talent needed to support its continued ... Read More

Valero Energy Corporation

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

Predictive Labor Needs and Talent Pipeline AutomationThis is a case study profiling the benchmark talent management best practices and strategies of the Valero Energy Corporation. After a lengthy study that compared talent management models and strategies of the world’s leading corporations it was... Read More

Agilent Technologies, Inc.: Executive Coaching

By Karen Walker /Transformational Leader, Board Member, Speaker

A summary of the design and implementation of a corporate-wide executive coaching program for high-performing and high potential senior leaders at Agilent Technologies. APEX features a customized 360° feedback leadership profile, an international network of external coaches, and a “pay for result... Read More

Porter Noveli Case Study

By Greg Waldron /Leadership / HR Consulting

The Drotter results-based approach is tailored to a professional services firm structure and applied in the development of a performance management system aligned with the business’s strategy. Drotter’s Leadership Pipeline approach is implemented, with the full performance definitions for each l... Read More

STORAGETEK

By Susan Curtis /BPI Expert

This case study shows how aiming for a high-performance culture led StorageTek to develop a transformation plan that balanced traditional operational management with the innovation required to be competitive in the information technology industry. A key element of the plan is successfully coordinati... Read More

Emmis Communications

By John Nelson /President, BT+L Partners

This article is a change management process for creating and implementing a distinctive firm brand and fostering a unique employer-of-choice culture while driving performance, accountability and innovation to higher levels.  Initiative leverages executive strategic planning and alignment, leadershi... Read More

Implementing Private Sector Best Practices in the Public Sector

By David S. Cohen /Teaching Faculty, Durham College School of Business, IT, & Management

Change is increasingly being regarded as an ongoing part of doing business. The word change often connotes big, privatized businesses trying to adapt from bureaucracy to flexibility in order to maintain competitive advantage in the face of enhanced customer expectations. More and more, change manage... Read More

Reinventing Talent Management Beyond the Events of 2020

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

This is not the world we trained for. The arrival and spread of COVID-19 have challenged the medical world, global economy, and national leadership. We find ourselves assuming decisive leadership roles that are only starting to define themselves. Multiple forces have contorted the present and bef... Read More

Best Practices in Large Scale Transformation

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

In a rapidly changing global environment, organizations are exposed to complex issues affecting a wide range of strategic functions. The regulatory environment, competition, employee attitudes, and resistance and reactions to change are some of the challenges organizations deal with on a daily basis... Read More

10 Top Tips: Achieving and Accelerating Diversity & Inclusion in Challenging Times

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

A recent conversation with some of the leading Human Resources officers at some of the leading national and global brands offered rich information on the ways they are making changes and changes they would like to pursue.... Read More

Best Practices in Assessments - A Benchmark-it Recap

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

Hosting heavyweights for a benchmarking conversation ensures multiple shared epiphanies. Pulled together recently, talent development champions met online on for Best Practices in Assessments: What are we using? What’s working? What’s NOT? A major takeaway for us was recognizing the differen... 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

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

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

Creating the Future Workplace for Today

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

2020 has accelerated the “Future Workplace” predictions, especially related to work-from-home and a shift to a more distributed workforce. Today 80% of employees work from home. While some organizations have embraced this new work environment, and some employees prefer this model, many other ... Read More

Rebuilding and Transforming the Employee Experience for a Post-CV19 World

By Tonille Miller /Global Vice President of People, Culture and Leadership Development, Startek

In this session, Tonille Miller, Global Vice President of People, Culture and Leadership Development at Startek will facilitate a session and share best practices on rebuilding and transforming the employee experience for a post-CV19 World. The focus of the session is the importance of the employee ... Read More

Rebuilding and Transforming the Employee Experience for a Post-CV19 World

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

In this session, Tonille Miller, Global Vice President of People, Culture and Leadership Development at Startek will facilitate a session and share best practices on rebuilding and transforming the employee experience for a post-CV19 World. The focus of the session is the importance of the employee ... Read More

Succession Planning in an Age of Black Swan Events

By William Rothwell /President, Rothwell & Associates, Inc.

Research has shown that fewer than 50 percent of organizations have working succession plans even in the best of times. But continuity planning—which includes replacement planning and succession planning—is particularly important in age of black swan events in which seemingly unimportant events ... Read More

Best Practices in Presenting Succession Candidates to the Board of Directors for Senior Roles

By Gonzalo Cajade /Vice President, Talent & Diversity, Otis Elevator

Succession planning for the C-suite can be an inspirational and aspirational process. Otis Elevator is in the process of becoming an independent publicly-traded company as they spin-off from United Technologies. One of the key areas that they are working on is succession planning and specifically pr... Read More

Best Practices in Assessments: What are we using, What’s working, What do we need to change

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

In this session, we will come together to share experiences, successes and key learnings of assessments. Specifically, please come ready to discuss: 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

STORY MARKETING: Clarifying your employer brand message

By David Mann /Founder & Story Specialist, Simple Message

Everyone knows using stories will increase brand awareness. But what if you could also turn your brand message into a repeatable story? What if every staff member and client said the exact same thing about your company? David shows you how stories can be much more useful than just case studies and a... 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

Transformational Performance

By David S. Cohen /Teaching Faculty, Durham College School of Business, IT, & Management

Performance Management is a hot-topic, yet everyone hates it. We all want to create the new formula. Everyone wants the secret ingredient to improve performance and productivity. And ironically, the system we have now has created more angst and concern than it has productivity. People are re-evaluat... Read More

Transforming Your Organization Though Talent Management

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

Companies are pivoting their attention. A newer and faster pace of change is quickly following. Mergers, acquisitions, transitions, market shifts are all causing us to re-think what talent management is all about. Issues around talent planning, attraction, development, reward, and retention of the ... Read More

The Future of Work

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

What will the workplace by like in 1 year, 5 years, or 20 years down the line. The speed of innovation is moving at light speed. Are you keeping up and ready to capitalize on new technologies and processes necessary to get ahead in today's hyper-charged environment? During this webinar, you'll hear ... Read More

Next Practices in Talent Reviews & Succession Planning

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

Identifying, assessing and selecting the right candidates are key critical steps to shrink internal capability gaps and win this war on talent. Does your organization have critical replacement strategies, communicate a clear picture of role expectations, provide purposeful exposure and development a... Read More

Benchmark-It Webinar: Talent Mobility

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

Talent mobility continues to be an area of focus for many organizations, with the mobile population growing in large organizations. Complexity and growth in assessments, travel, and virtual tools will increase, leading to a more a diverse and skilled workforce. This shift is prompting a spotlight on... Read More

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

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

Providing Irrefutable Proof Of The Bottom-Line Business Impact Of Recruiting, Retention And Development

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

Imagine for a moment a business environment where Talent Management not only had a surplus of budget resources but that you also had the unwavering public support of managers and executives. You should know that not every HR function struggles for support and not all have to continually operate in a... Read More

10 Steps to Prevent Change from Failing

By Tara Powers /★ Best-Selling Author, Award-Winning Leadership & DISC Expert, Talent Management Strategist, Executive Coach, Speaker ★, Powers Resource Center, LLC

Change is inevitable and necessary for growth. All companies undergo changes unique to their business – whether it’s a merger, an acquisition, downsizing, restructuring – or even simply new leadership - change happens. Is your organization about to embark on a change that will have a signif... Read More

Is Moving Too Fast Slowing You Down? – How to Prevent Overload from Undermining Your Organization’s Performance

By David Stroh /Principal in Bridgeway Partners

Organizational overload is a problem confronting people across all industries and sectors. People have too much to do and too few resources to accomplish it. The problem is overwhelming managers' abilities to sustain focus on strategic priorities and drive key organizational changes. In this session... Read More

Grow Globally: Proven Strategies for Corporate Leadership

By Mona Pearl /Global Strategist, Professor, Speaker, Author

How do you find growth in new markets? How do you beat your competition and lead? As the world becomes more dependent on technology, and as trade borders become seamless, companies need to acquire the tools and skills necessary on how to compete, innovate and succeed in the global market. The webina... Read More

Talent Management: Getting it Right

By Scott Esposito /Vice President, Human Resources, Fairfield University

Talent management encompasses many HR processes and touches every aspect of the employee life cycle. This webinar provides a high level overview of talent management and its importance to the performance and success of the company. Each aspect of talent management is briefly highlighted, providing k... 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

Sharpen Your Strategic Acumen to Unleash Your Career

By Michelle Randall /International Executive Coach & Business Consultant

67% of employers surveyed stated that they believed their managers lacked the strategic abilities to make a meaningful strategic contribution to the organization. We subscribe to the subversive belief that business results are radically improved when all levels of management contribute strategic... Read More

Strategic Onboarding at American Family Mutual Insurance

By Karla Walker /Talent Management Consultant, American Family Insurance

Karla Walker is Talent Management & Development Administrator and Executive Coach at American Family Mutual Insurance. Read More

Human Asset Instability and its Effect on Talent Strategies (Integrated Talent Management Roundtable)

By Tom Casey /Managing Principal, Discussion Partner Collaborative LLC

The Talent Landscape is changing rapidly with 5 forces coalescing into a "Perfect Storm". 1. Imminent Retirement of Baby Boomers 2. Disenfranchised Employee Engagement 3. C-Suite and Board Disatisfaction with Human Capital 4. Intense Competition for "Hot Skills" incumbencies 5. HR Domestic Comp... Read More

Best Practices and Research on HR as a Strategic Partner to the CEO

By Louis Carter /CEO, BPI

In today’s world, alignment is becoming key to organization’s success. Lou Carter and BPI Analyst Christi O’Neill will share their current work in the role of HR/Talent and alignment with the CEO. BPI will share best practices and research on how HR can become a integral part of the business s... Read More

Change the Culture, Change the Game

By Roger Connors /New York Times Bestselling Author | The Oz Principle | Change the Culture, Change The Game | Fix It | Wisdom of Oz

Hear this dynamic three-time New York Times Bestselling Author, Roger Connors, talk about how to accelerate culture change within your organization and create a culture that ensures effective execution on business strategies essential to achieving the organizational results you need. Learn about the... Read More

Leveraging Global Leadership Development at A.O. Smith

By Mary Sue Handel /Director, Global Talent Management, A. O. Smith Corporation

A. O. Smith Corporation is one of the world' s leading manufacturers of residential and commercial water heating equipment. Located in Europe, China, North America, and India they have streamlined their Leadership Development Competencies and Content to match the culture of the organization. Program... Read More

Integrated Talent Management and How to Get There (Integrated Talent Management Roundtable)

By Andy Rice /Principal and Lead Strategist at Black Box Consulting

Many companies are familiar with the benefits of Integrated Talent Management. As compelling as these benefits are, corporate HR organizations often remain in silos as they struggle to find a path to Talent Management integration. In this session, Talent Management Strategy expert Andy Rice of Bl... Read More

Strategies for Attracting Top Talent (Recruitment Roundtable)

By BPI Admin /Principal and Lead Strategist at Black Box Consulting

With globalization and the growing economy, recruitment professionals have their hands full. What is impacting the demand on recruiting top talent? Nancy Zentis will share her experiences in creating strategies that provide an effective way to recruit the top talent to your organization. Learn how w... Read More

What to do the year BEFORE a Talent Management Suite Implementation

By Janna Hartsock /HRIS Manager, American Institute of Research

While Talent Management Suite implementations are all the rage these days, often companies do not realize all that is involved until they are in the middle of the implementation, leading to increased costs, delayed Go Live dates and poor change management. In this session, Janna Hartsock, HRIS M... Read More

The Cultural Fit Factor: How to Attract, Retain and Repel the Right Employee (Recruitment Roundtable)

By Lizz Pellet /VIce President of Felix Global

While organizational culture has been touted since the early 1990’s as essential for business success, there has been little connection between organizational culture and individual (employee – candidate) “fit”. We have found that having the knowledge of “who you are” and “who you are ... Read More

Global Benchmarking For Diversity & Inclusion (Part 1)

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

Based on extensive contributions from 79 Expert Panelists around the world, this online research presentation and learning session, along with a new diversity and inclusion model, illustrates what excellent diversity and inclusion work looks like today. We will explore the research and twelve catego... Read More

Developing Real Strategic Change Capabilities: How to Integrate Business, OD & Human Capital Thinking

By David Jamieson /Associate Professor & Department Chair, Organization Learning & Development, College of Applied Professional Studies at the University of St. Thomas.

Today’s organization issues and needs are a new playing field for most leaders, professionals and consultants. The list of phenomena driving changes keeps growing. So speed, comprehensiveness and complexity become the characteristics that describe leadership and change issues. In the meantime, the... Read More

The Discipline of Why: Using Systems Thinking to Craft Effective Solutions

By Paul Plotczyk /CLO, Best Practice Institute

In this interactive, engaging presentation, the presenter will help convert the impressive ideas in the Fifth Discipline into a few easy to use tools that will also illustrate two key tenets of Systems Thinking - discipline and curiosity. The tools will include, “The Context Awareness Hierarchy,�... Read More

How to Develop Leaders for the Next Decade

By Edith Onderick-Harvey /President, Factor In Talent

The world of work at the dawn of the new decade is one where leaders are functioning in an increasingly complex, diverse and dispersed business environment. It’s an environment marked by economic upheaval, global competition and global collaboration, breakneck technological advances and multiple w... 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

Waging War on Complexity Costs

By Stephen Wilson /Managing Partner, Wilson Perumal & Company, Inc

Does a 15 to 30 percent reduction in operating cost interest you? Thought so. For the past two decades the pursuit of growth has created massive complexity in companies, and with it, massive complexity costs. What are complexity costs? Complexity costs are those costs in a business associated wit... Read More

Building a Human Capital Strategy

By Bradley Hall /Senior Advisor, CHRO, Huawei Technologies

For many companies, HR strategies are not strategies at all. They are laundry lists of the coming year’s HR programs. Great programs is not a strategy. A strategy describes how to use one’s resources to beat competitors. For HR, this happens when one company’s people outperform peers at compet... Read More

Unlocking Internal Innovation

By Kaihan Krippendorff /CEO of Outthinker, author, speaker, Wharton Executive Education

When a business faces new obstacles, the management invariably turns to one of two approaches: option-narrowing and rule-following. They either apply logic to define and narrow down a seemingly complete set of options or they follow a formula of behaviors that have proven successful in the past. How... Read More

How to Develop Leadership in Everyone

By Joe Raelin /Principal, The Leaderful Consultancy

In this webinar, Dr. Joe Raelin will introduce an exciting new way to think about and practice leadership, in what he calls, "leaderful practice." Thought to be ripe for the requirements of our 21st Century organizations, leaderful practice replaces the conventional heroic model by introducing the f... Read More

Avoiding the Corporate Death Spiral – Recognizing the Signs of Decline

By Gregg Stocker /Proprietor at Deadman's Second Hand

No matter how large or successful an organization appears to be today, there is no guarantee of survival in the future. There have been too many highly visible and painful reminders of this fact over the last several years. While many of these companies appeared to have fallen apart overnight, the d... 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

Building and Managing Networked Organizations

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

In the 1980s, a few small companies – Toyota, Datsun, etc. – then little known outside Japan, challenged dominant Western companies with a managerial philosophy we now call “Lean.” Though the tools of Lean were remarkably simple, most Western companies struggled to respond. Executives could ... Read More

Assessment Tools for Leadership

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

The leadership tools in this webinar are easy to implement, create greater leader engagement, more predictable in their outcomes, and are far less expensive than mainstream leadership development methods. Read More

Debunking 10 Common Talent Management Myths

By Doris Sims /Founder & CEO, Talent Benchstrength Solutions, LLC

As we look to the future of talent management, it is important to look at concerns and issues that may be limiting to our way of thinking about talent and succession strategy. This webinar discusses these "common myths" of business leaders and human resource professionals as they plan and implement ... Read More

Momentum Strategy: Brains for Growth

By Jean-Claude Larreche /Alfred H. Heineken Chaired Professor of Marketing, INSEAD

The fundamental driver of personal and business success is undoubtedly growth. In his new book on The Momentum Effect, “JC” Larreche has uncovered the mechanisms of efficient and sustainable growth, based on three research tracks involving hundred of corporations. His powerful and pragmatic road... Read More

The CIO Circa 2015

By Susan Cramm /COO & Treasurer at International Sanctuary

The CIO Role Circa 2015: Ensuring That The Business Leads with IT CEOs understand that IT drives innovation and business performance. Yet many CIOs still have to ride on the coattails of the business units to get things done. How can CIOs change enable the business to lead with technology? How can ... Read More

Reinventing Strategic Planning: State-of-the-Art Best Practices Research Report

By Stephen Haines /organizational theorist, management consultant, author of books on management and systems thinking.

As a result of attendance at this Executive Briefing, attendees will: 1. Gain enhanced knowledge, skills, and success in Strategic Planning rather than falling into the traps that almost all organizations do. 2. Learn the results of the Strategic IQ Audits conducted in numerous organizations b... Read More

Aligning People with Values to Increase Productivity and Profitability

By David S. Cohen /Teaching Faculty, Durham College School of Business, IT, & Management

This session will provide insight on how to develop a true competitive advantage for organizations through the integration of values, vision, strategic planning, and strategic talent management. This session will look at how to define: *What are values and what is a vision *Line of sight that... Read More

HR’s Role in Hiring Innovators and Game Changers

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

Any review of the latest topics of interest to global business leaders would reveal that “innovation” is a key issue and area of concern for businesses large and small. After years of investing billions in research and development, many of the world’s largest companies have yet to produce any... Read More

Creating Organizational Change You Can Live With

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

Why do so many change efforts fail or have unintended consequences? How can your change initiative be planned and implemented to achieve results that are faster and more sustainable? What is “change fatigue” and how can your organization avoid it? Based on experience with organizations from th... Read More

Comparing Your Organization’s Succession Planning Program to Best Practice

By William Rothwell /President, Rothwell & Associates, Inc.

How does it differ from traditional management succession planning? Social relationship succession planning? Based on research and experience in working with many types of organizations for the past 25 years, William will share practical approaches to capture, preserve and communicate tacit knowledg... Read More

Why Differentiation and Advertising No Longer Work: The Need for Hyper-Differentiation

By Steve Barnett /Co-founder & CEO, Bardo Consulting

Typical product differentiation is no longer sufficient to get your products noticed and to stand out from competition as many consumers, especially younger ones, look for a “perfect” fit between what they desire and what is available. Traditional advertising is not a source of information or tr... Read More

Built to Change

By Ed Lawler /Distinguished Professor of Business and Director, Center for Effective Organizations

Organizations are built to perform, not to change. But in today’s highly competitive business environment, organizations must be ready to change and change frequently. Organizations cannot sustain excellent performance unless they embrace change. The webinar will focus on identifying practices ... Read More