What You Can Expect
Improving Your Company's Performance
Even the most creative and most insightful business strategy will not succeed without the right people in place. A company culture that attracts, develops, and rewards talent and strong performance can help prepare your business to surge ahead of the competition. Drawing on recent faculty research that identifies the human capital challenges facing companies worldwide, this Executive Education program helps general managers and senior HR executives strategically manage their company's most valuable asset—its workforce. Your company will improve its ability to:
- Align incentives, rewards, and talent with its core business strategy
- Recognize new talent and develop their leadership capacity over time
- Create a positive work environment that maximizes the value of everyone’s contribution
- Institute a robust hiring process that anticipates future leadership needs, identifies the competencies needed, and nurtures a sufficient candidate pool
- Implement a well-articulated and widely accepted diversity strategy, including innovative approaches to recruiting and retaining minorities
- Integrate newcomers into the organization in ways that maximize their ability to perform and succeed
- Manage the complexities of reorganizations, mergers, and downsizing as part of the strategic hiring process
Taking Your Skills to the Next Level
This program gives you valuable time to step back, assess your organization's current approach to talent, and create a personalized action plan for improvement. You will learn how successful companies are nurturing talent by excelling at proven best practices, by inventing new strategic approaches, or by blending both. Exploring the latest thinking and research, you will develop a deeper understanding of the link between individual and corporate performance—and master the tools needed to take your company to a new level of success. Specifically, you will be better able to:
- Assess the maturity and effectiveness of your organization's talent management system in comparison with other companies across all industries
- Create a culture that recognizes the value of talented people and ensures that talent management practices are implemented in a consistent way across the organization
- Attract and develop talent throughout a multinational company and ensure positive working relationships among members of global teams
- Implement best practices to transform hiring into a continuous process that includes anticipating and analyzing future needs
- Direct strategic and tactical talent realignments to ensure your talent aligns with your business strategy and your company can exploit emerging opportunities
- Motivate employees to achieve their goals by implementing more effective performance evaluation and incentive strategies that consider the needs of a diverse workforce
- Develop reward and motivation plans that are fully integrated with your talent management strategy, recognizing the many factors that influence employee performance
"This well-organized and thoughtful program presented talent management in a holistic manner that focused on the bottom line. It allowed me to better understand the link between managing key talent and the impact on the business culture, leadership, and, ultimately, sustainability in the market."
Stuart Martin [Eurasia Africa Director, Group HR Strategy and Transformation], The Coca-Cola Company, Turkey