Name: How to improve Employee Engagement and Performance
Start: 2015-08-17T17:15:00Z
End: 2015-08-17T18:11:58.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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After a year of disruption, what are the old ways of working that will no longer suit us in 2021? Now is the time to adopt new approaches that will yield far better outcomes for employees and organizations alike.

Prospering in the new world of work requires continuous internal talent mobility. This means rethinking everything – from career development, learning and skill-building to the very concept of job descriptions and why sharing talent freely is in everyone’s interest – as well as taking a new view of the employee journey.

Join Randstad RiseSmart’s Jeanne Schad as she explores six ways of working that are better left behind and their replacements that you can put into play in 2021:

- Pursuing creative alternatives to layoffs to retain employees
- Helping managers freely share their talented direct reports and why it can help your organization flourish
- Tossing out rigid job descriptions to help you uncover workforce capabilities you didn’t know you had
- Taking a flexible approach to how, when and where learning occurs to untether career development and internal mobility
- Trading tech-only skilling solutions with a guided approach to close the skills gap
- Simplifying your life by replacing multiple tech platforms with integrated technology

6 new approaches to foster an agile workforce in 2021

For small and midsize business, facing a layoff or considering the possibility of one can be a gut-wrenching decision that is overwhelming. Kimberly Schneiderman, senior practice development manager at Randstad RiseSmart, shows you what you can do to avoid letting go of employees, and if you have no other options, how to do so the right way with compassion and dignity.

Small Business Layoffs: Taking Care of Employees at a Critical Time

Many organizations know that letting go of people has downstream consequences to employer brand, employee morale and productivity, innovation and the ability to be agile and competitive once the economy recovers. Yet, with the magnitude and length of the current pandemic-induced recession unknown, many organizations may feel they have no choice but to lay off a percentage of their workforce. Rapid redeployment is a tool that employers can add to their repertoire – one that can actually be less expensive than outplacement, allow companies to retain tribal knowledge, and enhance agility and competitiveness, especially once the economy rebounds. 

Join Randstad RiseSmart’s Jeanne Schad, talent solutions & strategy practice leader, as she explores the value of rapid redeployment as an important option for employers to consider as part of their workforce toolkit. 

You’ll learn:
- how companies are changing their approach to layoffs
- how rapid redeployment can reduce company costs
- why current internal redeployment initiatives may fall short for today’s needs
- the tools and resources needed to successfully redeploy employees
- why now is the right time to promote a culture of ‘stretching’ and continuous learning

Avoiding layoffs and cutting expenses with rapid redeployment

Consider these statistics from the Institute for Corporate Productivity, a human capital research firm:

-60% of companies have a coronavirus task force dedicated to developing a ‘return to workplace’ strategy
-68% of companies with a coronavirus task force have CHROs on that team
As workplaces reopen across the country, HR leaders are in uncharted territory, dealing with a multitude of complex issues, including variances in federal, state and local restrictions; how to address employees’ workplace safety concerns; and the permanent changes that workforces may undergo.

As regulations and best practices continue to evolve, there are fresh insights that you as an HR leader can gain from on-the-ground experiences of your peers, as well as guidelines and strategies that you can follow as you manage the return to the workplace and think about what the future may look like.

This webinar will provide you with quantitative data and qualitative insights into how peers are conducting return-to-workplace planning, gauging workforce sentiment and considering how to manage talent in innovative ways. You will also learn what topics to address as workplaces reopen.

Topics covered:

-benchmarking data from Fortune 1000 companies
-what’s top of mind for HR leaders and ‘next practices’ being deployed
-permanent changes anticipated in the workplace and the workforce
-factors to consider when creating a reopening timeline
-strategies for workplace safety and prevention
-questions to consider around testing and health screening
-what to build into workforce communications
-how to manage employee concerns about returning to work and legal considerations for employers

Panelist: 
Kevin Martin, Chief Research Officer, Institute for Corporate Productivity
Mark Goodman, Partner, Baker McKenzie
Robin Samuel, Partner, Baker McKenzie

Reopening your workplace: HR guidelines, strategies and next practices

HR departments are facing the perfect storm: Attracting top talent has not only become a battle; it’s become costly, too, as companies hire externally to find the right people at the right time. Employee turnover is also rising just as baby boomers are retiring, leading to skills gaps that can damage market competitiveness. Meanwhile, three-quarters of HR departments face calls to reduce labor costs. Today’s reality: Shrinking tenure, increasing front-end talent acquisition spend, and comparatively long initial training periods compared to average employee tenure leave organizations at increasing risk of not breaking even on their employee onboarding investment. The average company’s talent acquisition spend outpaces its internal performance management by a factor of up to 2 to 1.

There is a way to navigate out of the storm: Redeployment. To do this correctly, HR needs the right tools to reconcile cost management, employee tenure, and organizational skills development. In this webinar, find out how you can shift to a long-term talent employability through career mobility strategies that incorporate the overall value that existing employees bring.

Key takeaways:
- How Best-in-Class HR and talent acquisition teams are embracing redeployment strategies
- How these strategies are improving key metrics, such as employee tenure, the likelihood of sourcing and hiring top talent, labor productivity, and new revenue generation
- Strategies and tactics to institute a redeployment program in your organization

Your Top Talent and You: The Value of a Career Mobility Strategy

Projecting an “employee-first” culture is the number one motivation for employers around the globe to offer better severance packages to more people. Organizations hoping to create five-star experiences for employees understand the importance of maintaining a competitive edge at every stage of the employee journey—including upon separation.

In a recent survey of over 1,500 HR professionals from the U.S. and abroad, RiseSmart identified some important trends in severance benefits and the ways in which employers are shifting policies and practices to retain employees and create brand ambassadors.

In this #SmartTalkHR webinar, we’ll take a global view of severance and the trends that are forming the new Employee Relationship Economy to inform HR leaders and help them benchmark their severance programs against their competitors worldwide.

Key takeaways include understanding:

•Changes in who receives severance packages
•Which benefits take top priority for employers and employees
•What is driving the shift toward redeployment and retention
•The focus on taking care of employees upon release
•How social media and employer review sites are driving HR policies
•The similarities and differences between North America and Global severance policies

This SmartTalkHR webinar has been approved for 1 hour of recertification credit through HRCI and Professional Development Credits through SHRM.

2019: The Year of Exceptional Employee Experiences

SmartTalkHR Webinar on insights from two job seeker studies

How do job seekers decide where to work — and how do you get them to choose your company?

With the war for talent once again heating up, companies that take care of their employees at every stage in the employee lifecycle, from recruitment to separation, will be the biggest winners. As the steward of the employer brand, HR professionals benefit from discovering how to enhance the employee experience and become an employer of choice.

In this #SmartTalkHR Webinar, RiseSmart’s Karen Scates, manager content marketing and PR and Kimberly Schneiderman, senior practice development manager, will reveal the insights gained through two recent job seeker studies focused on how and why people choose to join an organization — or not.

Five Insights to Improve Your Hiring, Retention, and Employer Brand

A SmartTalkHR Webinar with 'New York Times' best selling author Daniel 

Most of us make decisions about when to start a business, schedule a class, take the next step in a relationship, or make a change in our careers based on intuition and guesswork.

You may be surprised to learn that timing is really a science. Let New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink show you his newly discovered scientific method for timing your decisions to propel you into a richer, more satisfying, and more successful lifestyle.

In this #SmartTalkHR webinar, Daniel will reveal the scientific secrets of perfect timing to help participants discover how to:

•Use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule
•Create natural breaks to improve performance
•Turn a stumble into a fresh start
•Identify the ideal time to make a change

Save your seat today!

From Gut Feeling to Good Planning: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

A SmartTalkHR Webinar with Ben Eubanks

How do we move beyond checking the box on performance management to engage in high-impact performance activities? New insights uncovered by Lighthouse Research reveal a clear distinction between the performance management and engagement practices used at high-performing firms versus their lower-performing peers. The top-performing companies leverage a mixture of recognition, regular conversations, and other practices to create more engaging workplace experiences for their employees, ultimately driving engagement and performance to new heights.

In this #SmartTalkHR webinar, HR analyst Ben Eubanks took us through the research to discover what it can teach us about how to improve our approach to performance management. More practically, we examined some case studies and stories of companies that have modified their approach to performance management to reap a variety of rewards. You will learn:

•The deep links between engagement, performance management, and business results
•How to adapt performance management practices to improve outcomes
•Best practices from other firms that have changed their approach to performance

5 Performance Management Practices of High-Performing Firms

Most HR organizations know what they need to do in order to succeed—but they don’t do it. Why is that? After all, companies spend big bucks to send HR teams to conferences, buy the latest technology, and teach best practices. And HR people are great at seeking networking opportunities and attending webinars. So what keeps us from putting that learning to its optimal use?

In this #SmartTalkHR webinar with Jeffrey Pfeffer, an American business theorist and the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, you’ll discover how to close that gap between knowing and doing—once and for all. This informative session will cover:

- What barriers commonly prevent us from acting on what we know
- Which strategies and tools empower you to turn actionable insight into real action
- How the right management practices can build a culture focused on getting things done

Top HR Tools & Strategies to Empower your Employees

The HR profession has evolved from an administrative and technical/functional focus to a strategic focus.  For the last 20 years, strategy has been a mirror in which HR sees and aligns HR practices to help deliver business results.  We believe that the next step in HR is to focus on “HR from the Outside In.”  In this view, strategy is not a mirror, but a window through which HR professionals align their work to forces and stakeholders outside their organization.

HR Transformation: Building Human Resources Strategies

Technology is no longer a “nice to have” tool for running your Human Resources department: it is an integral part of aligning HR with your overall business. But do you know how to align your technology with your organizational goals? The future of HR is happening now—so what are you waiting for? Let’s get to work.

Measurement, Meaning and Action: Aligning Your HR Technology with Your Business

Over the past several years, we’ve seen a great shift in what it takes to engage employees: workers are no longer satisfied with sitting behind a desk, trading in information, and waiting for their 20 year service award. Instead, we see massive turnover as employees seek work that provides them not only with a paycheck, but with passion and purpose.

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