Strategic Talent Management:
Leveraging Human Capital for Competitive Advantage
Course Description: The challenge of identifying, attracting, developing, and keeping l eadership talent is central to any company’s long-term success. Without a rigorous process to place the right kind of talent in the right organizational role, companies will lose competitive advantage. T op companies make talent management a strategic business priority in good times and bad, and talent can make the difference. Processes may be fairly constant across companies; it’s the discretionary behavior of talented leadership around the processes that create competitive advantage. This module will explore an innovative process for ‘minding the talent store’. This means a disciplined process for stratifying leadership talent using performance criteria, and a systematic way to identify the best talent across the organization, from Board Room executives to line management. This module is designed to build competency in this area by weaving together content and application exercises for a comprehensive learning experience.
Who should attend: C-suite officers, Vice Presidents, HR Directors, and other functional leaders are invited to attend this learning experience, especially those individuals whose leadership responsibilities include selecting, developing, and retaining talent for their organization.
Presented By: Dr. Rick Gilkey, Professor in the Practice of Organizations and Management, Goizueta Business School, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, along with consultants Glenn Tobe and Alan Schnur
Professor Gilkey holds a joint appointment at Emory University, where he serves on the faculty of the Goizueta Business School as associate professor in the practice of organization and management, and the School of Medicine, where he is an associate professor of psychiatry. He is the recipient of the university's highest teaching honor, the Emory Williams Award. Professor Gilkey's articles have appeared in several leading professional journals. Rick is co-author of a book on post-merger management entitled "Joining Forces: Creating and Managing Successful Mergers and Acquisitions", (Prentice-Hall), and he is a contributing author to "Organizations on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding Organizational Dynamics".
Glenn Tobe and Alan Schnur are partners in the Tobe-Schnur consultantcy, a San Francisco Bay area consulting firm specializing in helping businesses achieve sustainable business growth, and have led some of the largest talent management projects in North America. While heading up the global Change Navigation practice at Accenture, Glenn led the leadership supply chain project at Motorola, and later the same talent management initiative at Accenture. He has served at Avanade, a joint venture of Microsoft and Accenture, as the first VP of Human Resources. Glenn understands the theoretical research side of talent management but fundamentally he is a practitioner of implementing talent management strategy regardless of the size of the business, the industry, maturity of the company or the market to further business competitiveness
Date Offered: May 13, 2008
Registration Deadline: April 29, 2008
