Name: Diversity and Inclusion: Rethinking workplace diversity
Start: 2020-12-03T14:00:00Z
End: 2020-12-03T14:00:43.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Thomas International works with customers across the globe to help them realise the true potential in people. Our people assessments provide powerful insights, giving you the knowledge to recruit and manage with confidence. Having been at the forefront of assessment innovation for over 35 years, we provide online assessments to over 32,000 companies worldwide, in 56 languages and across 60 countries.

According to Slack, low productivity is costing businesses around $1.8 trillion every year (2021). As we’re faced with an impending recession and wider socio-economic disruption  it’s imperative that organisations unlock the  productivity potential of their workforce whilst making every recruitment decision count to avoid financial implications. 

Join our expert panel from Thomas featuring Jayson Darby, Director of Science, Mike Bailey, Senior Product Manager and Elne Janse van Rensburg, Regional Lead for Customer Success on Thursday 8th December at 11am GMT as they discuss how Thomas can support you in reaching ideal workforce productivity.

Insights you can expect to gain from this webinar: 
• Understanding the building blocks of productivity
• The barriers to achieving optimal workforce productivity 
• How to empower teams to drive productivity
• Understanding how Thomas can support your productivity goals
• Practical tips and insights on tackling productivity challenges

This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives, Recruitment and Talent Acquisition professionals who are looking for ways to improve productivity for both existing team members and new recruits.

What Drives Workforce Productivity?

Our latest global research highlighted that 6 in 10 new hires made in the last two years have failed and 90% of bad hires were due to poor role or culture fit. With the labour market more candidate-driven than ever, many organisations are rushing recruitment decisions to secure new hires, which has a significant impact on costs, retention and productivity. With a looming recession, it’s important for the focus to remain on quality hires which starts with your recruitment approach. 
Join Candice Smit, Industrial Psychologist at Thomas International and Kasia Rudzik, Global Assessment & Talent Services Manager at Wyser on Thursday 17th November at 11am GMT as they discuss how to effectively balance organisational needs whilst not compromising on candidate quality. 

Insights you can expect to gain from this webinar: 
• The impact of current market conditions on recruitment
• The importance of a data driven recruitment approach
• Achieving the balance of speed and quality 
• The benefits of recruiting for soft skills beyond the interview
• Insights to help you navigate current recruitment challenges.

This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives, Recruitment and Talent Acquisition professionals who are looking for ways to improve their recruitment processes.

Fast fit vs. great fit: finding the balance in recruitment

A survey conducted by CareerPlug found that 58% of job seekers had declined a job offer due to poor candidate experience (2021). In the current candidate-centric market, delivering a positive candidate experience is vital, but organisations also need to avoid sacrificing hire quality which can impact business performance and employee retention. 

Join Daire Lynam, Managing Director at Thomas International Ireland, Jordan Dudley, Founder of 1492 Recruitment and Claire Gafan, People Manager at Brompton Bikes on Tuesday 13th September at 11am BST as they discuss how to balance the delivery of a positive candidate experience with thorough candidate evaluation! 

Insights you can expect to gain from this webinar: 
• The real impact of candidate experience 
• How to improve the candidate experience
• The role of psychometrics in positive candidate experience 
• How to balance candidate experience and candidate evaluation 
• Practical tips and insights to help you deliver a positive candidate experience.


This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives, Recruitment and Talent Acquisition professionals who are looking to gain a deeper understanding of how to deliver a positive candidate experience.

The Gamechangers of Candidate Experience

With 83% of workers preferring a hybrid model of work (Accenture, 2021), organisations are having to permanently adapt their approach to retain talent and meet the needs of their employees post-pandemic. Many organisations are still trying to navigate the demands and complexities that come with managing more disparate teams including building trust, maintaining engagement and company culture. 

Join Linza Eksteen, Content Writer at Thomas International and Rich Horton, Director at Zentano on Thursday 14th July at 11am BST as they discuss how to effectively manage hybrid teams to drive engagement, retention and resilience! 

Insights you can expect to gain from this webinar: 
• The changing expectations of employees and employers 
• The importance of building resilience in your hybrid teams 
• Understanding the wider business impact of hybrid working 
• How to effectively onboard employees for a hybrid environment 
• Practical tips and insights to help you effectively lead a hybrid team.

This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives and People managers who are looking for ways to improve their management of hybrid teams.

Linza Eksteen is the Editor and Team Lead for the Content Experience team at Thomas International. Linza is also an Organisational Psychologist and together with her team, they focus on providing clients and candidates with the best content experience across Thomas’ assessment platforms. Linza has a passion for people development and believes that employees are an organisation’s biggest asset.

Rich Horton who is a Director of Zentano. Having previously had a successful career in IT leadership Rich decided IT wasn’t his passion and he made the leap to become a coach, facilitator and mediator.  With 30+ years of experience in leadership, management and business growth, Rich now supports individuals, teams and businesses to grow and develop through insights helping them achieve their purpose.

Solving the Hybrid Working Challenge

According to a report from McKinsey (2019), companies in the top 25% for ethnic/cultural diversity on executive teams were 33% more likely to have industry-leading profitability. In addition, up to 87% of the time, diverse teams make better business decisions (Cloverpop, 2019). 

In an increasingly challenging recruitment market facing skills shortages and a lack of candidates, unconscious bias in your recruitment process can hinder you from securing the best candidates. So how do you overcome this? Join our experts as they discuss:

- Understanding your own personal bias
- What research tells us about unconscious bias in recruitment
- Removing bias throughout the recruitment lifecycle
- How to diversify your talent pool by looking beyond the CV
- Developing a structured and consistent interview process to remove bias

This webinar is for HR, Senior executives, Recruitment and Talent Acquisition professionals looking to gain a deeper understanding of how to tackle unconscious bias in recruitment.

Tackling Unconscious Bias in Recruitment

Research by Brandon Hall Group (2015) identified that organisations with a strong onboarding process can improve new hire retention by 82% and improves productivity by over 70%.  A well-structured and engaging onboarding experience can have a significant impact and leave a lasting impression on your new employees.

Supporting new employees and making them feel part of the team through effective onboarding is a key component to retaining your new hires, especially if they are in hybrid or remote positions. Join Claire Dwight, Global Training Specialist at Thomas International and xxxx, as they discuss how to create a tailored, effective and engaging onboarding experience for your new employees helping embed them in your organisation sooner and be more productive. 

Insights you can expect to gain from this webinar: 
• What an onboarding plan should look like
• Understand the importance of tailoring the onboarding experience 
• How to effectively deliver hybrid, remote and face to face onboarding
• Empowering people managers to drive engagement and create a sense of belonging 
• Practical solutions to your onboarding challenges.

This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives, Recruitment and Talent Acquisition professionals and people managers who are looking for ways to improve onboarding of new hires to support retention and productivity.

Unlock the Power of Effective Onboarding

Hiring into your leadership team is one of the most important recruitment decisions you can make, but getting it right can be tricky. According to Gallup, 82% of the time, companies are failing to choose the candidate with the right talent for management positions. 

With leaders not only impacting organisational success, but also productivity, reputation, employee engagement and organisational culture – the stakes are high.  Join Kira van Niekerk, Global Lead – Training and Enablement at Thomas International, Vicki Warland, Global Talent Lead at Thomas International and Matthew Evans, Director at The Management Recruitment Group, as they discuss how to identify the best candidates for your leadership roles, looking at a combination of skills, experiences, science and data. 

Insights you can expect to gain from this webinar: 
• Understanding the cost of a bad leadership hire 
• What science and data can tell you about leadership candidates
• How to identify the right leadership style and cultural fit
• The importance of self-awareness amongst leaders
• Practical solutions to your leadership recruitment challenges

This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives, Recruitment and Talent Acquisition professionals who are looking to gain a deeper understanding of how to tackle leadership recruitment.

How to Hire Great Leaders in a Competitive Market

55% of CEOs stated in a global survey that developing the next generation of leaders is a key challenge within their organisation (DDI, 2021), with 52% also stating attracting and retaining top talent is a current challenge. 

This means there is added pressure to develop and retain current talent in today’s climate. HR needs to be on top of their game to not only retain talent, but to ensure knowledge is retained helping minimise disruption any personnel changes could cause. 

In our webinar series, Thomas Takeaways, we offer practical insights into the pain points of employee management, with the focus of this session being succession planning. Join our specialists as they discuss:
• The importance of developing a succession planning strategy
• The need to create succession plans beyond leadership positions 
• How to fairly select successors - experience vs attributes
• 3 ways to develop successors
• The impact of succession planning on employee retention

This webinar is for HR professionals looking to understand succession planning and how to develop a strategy and nurture employees for their next roles.

Alex Clinton joined Thomas International in 2013 and managed two client-facing teams before becoming a Global Training Specialist. She is accredited by the ILM as a Level 5 Business Coach and Mentor and is an experienced team workshop facilitator. Her passions are helping people develop self-awareness, and leadership and management development. 

Dan Jarvis is Technical & Business Development Manager at Plastribution Ltd. As part of his role, he helps look after the training and development programme, the use and feedback of Thomas tools and the coaching and mentoring programme. Dan started his polymer career in 1987 at Courtaulds Research in Coventry and has achieved a BEng (hons) in Polymer Science & Engineering at Coventry University. He has worked in many areas of the polymer industry and contributed to the latest edition of Brydson’s Plastics Materials.

How to close the talent gap: develop tomorrow’s talent, today

Atunci cand se face recrutarea externa, colectarea de informatii despre candidat prin toate modalitatile disponibile e implicita. E nevoie ca practica aceasta sa fie integrata si in procesul de identificare a talentelor din organizatie pentru a promova intern persoana potrivita pentru posturile vacante.
Emilia Bradea, impreuna cu invitatul ei, Romeo Stavar-Vergea, General Manager @CMA Ships-CMA CGM Group vor dezvalui cum pot fi folosite  evaluarile Thomas astfel incat provocarile care apar odata cu promovarile sa fie adresate eficient, precum si a asigura o traiectorie personalizata dezvoltarii carierei fiecarui angajat.
Discutia iti  va oferi:
- Detalii punctuale despre practicile care functioneaza cu succes in prezent;
- Informatii despre instrumentele recomandate pentru a lua decizii privind angajatii
- Modul prin care pot fi identificate solutiile pentru econimisirea resurselor si reducerea costurilor cu procesul de recrutare;
- Indicatii practice pentru a aborda deficitul de competente din piata.
Romeo Stavăr-Vergea este manager general al companiei CMA Ships CGM Group,reprezentant al Armatorului pentru România,membru in federații și asociații de formare profesională,suport pt agențiile de crewing din România. Cu experiență vastă ca și formator și practician acreditat Thomas International,Romeo Stavăr-Vergea poate oferi recomandări valide pentru configurara celor mai eficiente de strategii de optimizare a potențiaului și promovarea talentelor într-o organizație.
Emilia Bradea Popescu este Client Developer & Senior Trainer @ Thomas International Romania. Principalul ei rol presupune oferire de suport in integrarea evaluarilor Thomas in toate procesele organizationale care se adreseaza oamenilor, pe întreg ciclu de viata a angajatului in companie. A derulat numeroase programe de dezvoltare pe termen lung care au influentat eficient dezvoltarea de abilitati manageriale si de leadership in companii multinationale.

Using Thomas tools to rebuild your talent strategy (RO)

75% of companies struggling with recruitment attribute this to a skills shortage (SHRM, 2021). In a world riddled with uncertainty, psychological science can inform hiring decisions, helping businesses navigate skill scarcity. 

In this webinar, we explore how you can reliably predict a candidate’s potential for success by using science to diversify the talent pool and manage complexity.  Join Jayson Darby, Director of Science at Thomas International, and Jos Frederiks, Co-founder and Director of Createment career advisory, as they share the secrets to successful hiring during a global skills shortage. 

Insights you can expect to gain from this webinar:  

·       What really predicts success in a role 

·       What science reveals about future performance 

·       Root causes of the current recruitment challenges 

·       Practical solutions to your recruitment challenges 

This webinar is for HR, C Suite executives, Recruitment and Talent Acquisition professionals who are looking for alternative ways to hire people during a global skills shortage.

The Secret to Solving the Skills Shortage - Hiring for Potential

People aspire to be leaders, but it is a difficult place to be. Today, leaders are not only expected to run the organisation, but also drive inevitable change. However, research has revealed that only 14% of CEOs believe that they have the leadership talent needed to grow their businesses (BuiltIn, 2021). 

This, coupled with a whopping 79% of employees stating that they will leave their jobs due to a lack of appreciation from leaders (Forbes, 2018), indicates that there is a lack of development and support network for leaders to be successful and by extension, their organisation to be successful too. 

In this webinar, we offer practical insights into the pain points of leadership within organisations and how C suite executives, HR, and Learning and Development professionals can supercharge their leadership’s development! 

Join Alex Clinton, Global Training Specialist at Thomas International, as she explores the great leadership and development work within Wiltshire Council, spearheaded by Organisational Development gurus Judith Vanderpump and Amanda Collyer.  

Key takeaways include: 
- What does great leadership look like? 
- Barriers to successful leadership and how you can overcome them 
- The impact of understanding people’s differences and the importance of psychological safety. 
- The impact of leadership development programmes and how to measure them 
- Key actions you can implement within your organisation today

Leadership 2.0 - How to supercharge your leaders in 2022

BITC (Business in the Community) statistics shows that organisations with more diverse teams have 36% better financial returns. 

You can get even more out of your people by building a diverse and inclusive organisation, and thus improving the overall employee experience.  To do this, and to ensure a committed and effective team, your diversity and inclusion strategies must change and grow with your employees during their time at your organisation. This means that different D&I strategies may be in play across the employee lifecycle.  

In this webinar, we offer practical insights into the pain points of employee management, with a particular focus on the importance of strategically implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives throughout the employee lifecycle. Join us as we discuss: 

- Why D&I is so important at all stages of the employee lifecycle 
- Common stumbling blocks to employers’ handling of diversity and inclusion 
- How you can effectively support D&I efforts at each stage of the employee lifecycle 
- How you can engage employees in diversity and inclusion initiatives 
- Practical D&I strategies that you can begin implementing today 

This webinar is for HR professionals, leaders and managers responsible for their organization's diversity and inclusion initiatives.  

Join Kira van Niekerk, Global Lead – Training & Enablement at Thomas International, and Clare Keniry, Head of Diversity & Inclusion and Board Director at Morgan Hunt, on 7th December 2021 to find out more.

D&I in the real world: Actions you can take to make it stick

Comme moi, avez-vous du mal à maintenir de bonnes habitudes ? Vous n'avez toujours pas trouvé le moyen de vous débarrasser d’une mauvaise habitude ? Malheureusement (ou heureusement !), vous n'êtes pas seul(e) ! 
 
Comprendre comment nous créons des habitudes, comment nous défaire de nos mauvaises habitudes et les remplacer par de bonnes, voici le thème de ce webinaire.  
 
Nous sommes tous conscients que notre comportement a un impact important sur notre bien-être, sur notre réussite professionnelle et sur la qualité de nos relations. Il y a des habitudes que nous voulons faire évoluer.  

 Quelle est la recette ?  

Après 30 minutes, vous serez en mesure d’analyser vos habitudes. Grâce à des conseils pratiques, vous pourrez concrètement tenter de changer. Ce webinaire s’adresse aux professionnels Rh ainsi qu’à tous les managers qui veulent en savoir plus sur le mécanise des habitudes.

Changer de comportement - rompre le pouvoir de nos habitudes

Thomas International has supported Romanian businesses and HR practitioners for more than 20 years. Now, when Thomas turns 40 it is a great time to reflect on what impact the psychometric tools and solutions had on organizations all over the Thomas users network.
Sorina Bradea, Managing Partner at Thomas Romania, and Emilia Bradea, Client Developer and Senior Trainer will present the outcomes of using science validated and people-focused solutions in all organizational processes.

Thomas Talks:Using Thomas Tools for Successful Romanian Businesses

Employee turnover costs range from 25% to 213% of annual salary, depending on the position and have doubled in the last 10 years (Work Institute, 2019). Additionally, a 2020 retention report by the Work Institute analysed over 233,000 exit interviews and found that over 75% of the reasons employees leave their jobs are preventable. 

Not only does high turnover cost businesses time and money to recruit, train, develop and integrate a new staff member into a team, but high employee turnover also lowers morale for existing employees.

In this webinar we offer practical insights into the pain points of employee management, and in particular, on how to retain your talent. Watch on-demand now as Arianna McMechan, Specialist Research Psychologist at Thomas International and Dan Jarvis, Technical & Business Development Manager at Plastribution Limited discuss: 

- Why individuals leave an organisation vs why they stay 
- The benefits of having a proactive retention strategy
- The importance of the manager-employee relationship for retaining people 
- The impact universal retention strategies geared around the majority can have on minority groups 
- 5 key steps you can take to retain and engage your workforce 

This webinar is for HR professionals that want to understand attrition and how to develop a strategy to retain and engage their employees. 

Arianna is a Specialist Research Psychologist within the Science team at Thomas. Arianna has a particular interest in applying psychological theories and methods to real world outcomes. She aims to help bridge the gap between science and applied practices through academic and customer research, data analysis, content writing and product innovation.

Dan is Technical and Business Development Manager at Plastribution Limited. As part of his role at Plastribution, Dan helps to look after the training and development programme, the coaching and mentoring programme as well as the integration of the Thomas tools across the business.

The big exodus – Top tips to retain your in-house talent

‘No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team’ – Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn cofounder). 

Being a part of a successful, high performing team can be a rewarding and motivating experience for both the team and the business. But how can you cultivate a high performing team in a hybrid environment to meet today’s challenges? 

Join us for this discussion-based webinar, in partnership with theHRDIRECTOR, where we explore: 

- The characteristics of high performing teams 
- How to build and develop your team 
- How to run an effective team session 
- The importance of communication 
- ‘Culture fit’ versus ‘culture add’ within teams 
- Actionable takeaways to current challenges faced by teams 

We are joined by Jonathon Pidd, Learning & Development Manager at Pure Retirement, one of the UK’s top Equity Release Mortgage Providers, and Claire Dwight, Global Training Specialist from Thomas International.  

This webinar is for HR professionals, Talent Management and acquisition professionals, people managers, team leaders and Senior leadership looking to build and develop high performing teams in these times of continued challenge as we seek to build the hybrid workforces of the future.

How to identify, build and nurture high performing teams

Est-ce que, comme moi, vous avez du mal à maintenir de bonnes habitudes ? Vous n'avez toujours pas trouvé le moyen de vous débarrasser de cette mauvaise habitude ? Malheureusement (ou heureusement !), vous n'êtes pas seul.

Comprendre comment nous créons des habitudes, comment désapprendre nos mauvaises habitudes et les remplacer par de bonnes, tel est le thème de ce webinaire.

Nous sommes tous conscients que notre comportement a un impact important sur notre propre bien-être, sur notre réussite professionnelle et sur la qualité de nos relations. Même dans les organisations, il y a des habitudes que nous voulons changer. Mais comment s'y prendre ?
Ce webinaire est très utile pour les responsables des ressources humaines, les formateurs et les coachs, les cadres et tous ceux qui veulent savoir comment changer leurs habitudes de manière optimale.

Après seulement 30 minutes, vous serez en mesure de :
- Analysez vos habitudes
- Grâce à des conseils pratiques, vous mettre concrètement au travail pour changer vos habitudes
- Avoir un regard différent sur les habitudes au sein de votre organisation

Kristine Schryvers est formatrice/consultante chez Thomas International Belux et possède 27 ans d'expérience dans le coaching et le développement des individus, des équipes et des organisations.

Changer de comportement - Rompre le pouvoir de nos habitudes

Heb je, net zoals ik, moeite met het volhouden van goede gewoontes? Nog geen manier gevonden om van die ene slechte gewoonte af te geraken? Je bent helaas (of gelukkig!) niet alleen!

Begrijpen hoe we gewoontes creëren, hoe we slechte gewoontes kunnen afleren en vervangen door goede, is het thema van dit Webinar.

We beseffen allemaal dat ons gedrag een grote impact heeft op ons eigen welzijn, het al dan niet succesvol zijn en het opbouwen van goede relaties. Ook in organisaties bestaan er gewoontes die we willen veranderen. Maar hoe pak je dit juist aan?
Dit Webinar is uitermate geschikt voor HR-verantwoordelijken, trainers en coaches, leidinggevenden en iedereen die te weten wil komen hoe je je gewoontes optimaal aanpast.

Na amper 30 minuten zal je in staat zijn om:
- je gewoontes te analyseren
- met praktische tips, concreet aan de slag te gaan om je gewoontes te veranderen
- op een andere manier naar de gewoontes binnen je organisatie te kijken

Kristine Schryvers is Trainer/Consultant bij Thomas International Belux en heeft 27 jaar ervaring in het begeleiden en ontwikkelen van individuen, teams en organisaties.

Changing Behaviour - Doorbreek de macht van gewoontes

Top quartile companies for diversity were found to be more likely to financially outperform industry medians than bottom quartile companies for gender diversity (by 16%) and ethnic diversity (by 35%) (McKinsey & Company, 2017). 

Workplace diversity is far more than just a moral issue. Organisations can harness the difference in people to help them become more successful, more innovative, more skilled and better able to cater to their diverse clients’ needs. However, putting steps in place to build a diverse workforce is not enough. So what can you do?

Join Mollie and Arianna as they discuss the importance of having a D&I strategy in your recruitment and people processes, how to cultivate an inclusive workforce and the challenges you may come across.

Key takeaways: 
- Why is diversity important in the workplace?
- Interesting statistics on bias, diversity and inclusion
- How you can cultivate diversity in the workplace

This webinar is for HR professionals, leaders and managers looking to improve their diversity and inclusion strategy by addressing unconscious bias in the workplace. 

Mollie has an Occupational Psychology MSc with University of Leicester and is a Research Assistant within the Global Science Team. She is mainly responsible for carrying out academic research in relation to psychometric assessments and validating concepts to help inform new product ideas. Her dissertation focused on the impact of trait emotional intelligence on workplace outcomes.

Arianna has a Masters in Organisational & Business Psychology from UCL and is a Research Assistant within the Science Team at Thomas International. Her dissertation focused on the relationship between personality traits and organisational outcomes and the moderating impact of self-awareness. Arianna is involved in running validation and reliability studies for psychometric tools, conducting academic and client research for product innovation and analysing data through statistical analysis.

Diversity and Inclusion: Rethinking workplace diversity

Diversity and Inclusion

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Unconscious Bias

Workplace Diversity

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Talent Management

Cultivate Diversity

Leadership

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