In this course, participants gain understanding of how talent management systems can create better organizations, better talent and better career. They gain knowledge of what talent management is, how organizations benefit from talent management, characteristics of a high impact integrated talent management system and industry practices in talent management. The course highlights the benefits and costly consequences of not focusing on TM practices.

In this course, participants build capability to:

• conduct a TM system effectiveness audit
• identify opportunities for integrating TM practices to meet a business need
• assist in the recruitment of evidence based TM professionals
• identify gaps in TM practices compared to industry benchmarks

This course gives participants access to various tools and worksheets, including:

1. TM System Effectiveness Audit
2. Industry Specific TM Practices

In this course, participants will learn about the dimensions of performance and how they relate to effectiveness. The participant will learn about the key decisions and practices that lead to accuracy and fairness in the appraisal process. They will understand the interdependencies between PM and talent management systems, and use this knowledge to design a high impact PM system. Participants will also learn about key considerations such as assessing team performance and evaluating the effectiveness of a PA system.​

In this course, participants build the capability to:

• Support the development of a new performance appraisal (PA) system by
• developing questionnaires/interview guides to gather stakeholder’s input
• proposing the appropriate list of performance dimensions for a holistic evaluation
• proposing rating scale options to rate performance
• proposing mechanisms to promote fairness in the system
• outlining the process of administering organization-wide performance appraisals
• Support the maintenance of an existing performance appraisal system by
• providing proactive administrative support during the deployment of the PA processdesigning the evaluation
• process to assess the effectiveness of the PA system
• gathering data to evaluate the effectiveness of the PA system

This course gives participants access to various tools and worksheets, including:

1. A Manager’s Guide to Giving Effective Performance Feedback
2. A Manager’s Guide to Informal Employee Development Activities
3. Performance Appraisal Methods for Different Types of Teams – A Guide
4. Performance Appraisal Tools – Rating Scale
5. ComparisonTM System Effectiveness Audit

In this course, participants will learn the steps involved in developing a compensation strategy and the evidence on effective compensation practices. They will gain knowledge of the contrasting perspectives on compensation, total rewards and get introduced to special topics including sales compensation, managerial compensation, executive compensation and legal issues in compensation. The course will also teach effective compensation strategies through case studies.​

In this course, participants build the capability to:

• perform a job evaluation
• use compensation practices to support organizational objectives and business strategies
• outline the key considerations in conducting a market pay analysis
• develop the compensation structure
• develop pay bands for job families or broad bands for all jobs within the organization
• effectively communicate the company’s compensation philosophy
• outline the key considerations for designing a sales compensation systems
• decide when to use long-term or short-term incentives

This course gives participants access to various tools and worksheets, including:

1. Guide to Evaluating Total Rewards Programs
2. Job Evaluation Sample – Comparison of Client Services Role
3. A Manager’s Discussion Guide for Compensation Communication
4. Sales Performance Metrics
5. Steps in Building a Compensation Communication Plan
6. Total Rewards Programs
7. Market Pay Analysis

In this course, participants will gain knowledge of the signs that signal the need for workforce planning and the steps involved in conducting a workforce analysis. Additionally, the course will present strategies for workforce segmentation, qualitative and quantitative methods for workforce estimation and other special considerations.​

In this course, participants build the capability to:

• identify when a workforce analysis will be beneficial
• identify the data required to perform workforce analytics
• outline the steps involved in conducting a workforce plan
• develop a workforce supply-demand gap closure strategy
• compute staffing ratios and productivity ratios to estimate
• future workforce size
• gather metrics to evaluate a workforce plan

This course gives participants access to various tools and worksheets, including:

1. Guidelines for Building a Talent Inventory
2. Guidelines for Using Qualitative Methods of Workforce Forecasting
3. Operational Strategy Canvas – Form
4. Tools for Estimating Skills and Expertise Required – Form
5. Strategies of Addressing Workforce Deficits and Surpluses
6. Workforce Segmentation Categories and Definitions

​In this course participants will learn the steps involved in developing a succession planning process and the organizational best practices. The participant will gain knowledge of how succession planning fits into the employee life cycle and how to identify critical positions. The course will also present evidence, predictors of leadership potential, special considerations, common dilemmas and material on CEO succession planning. Finally, participants will learn how to evaluate the succession planning process.

In the course a participant will build the capability to:

• define an approach to identify critical roles
• define the succession needs of the organization
• select assessments to help identify high potential candidates
• develop a process to identify high potential employees
• using assessments and employee data
• outline the succession planning process and structure the talent review meeting
• support the creation of development plans
• gather metrics to evaluate the succession planning process

This course gives participants access to tools and worksheets, including:

1. A Guide for Succession Planning Management and Development Support
2. Comprehensive List of Predictors of High Potentials
3. A Guide to High Potential Identification, Development, and Treatment
4. A Guide to Understanding Leadership Derailers
5. Guidelines for Identifying Critical Roles
6. Job Leveling Matrix
7. Miles and Snow Organizational Strategy – ToolSuccession
8. Planning Stakeholder Meeting Guide
9. The Talent Review Process – Challenges and Resolutions
10. Succession Planning Strategy Creation Meeting Canvas – Tool