Common speaking Topics

Internal Talent Mobility - Talent Marketplaces

Future of Work

Performance Management

Career Management

 

Future of Work

The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity

What if the talent you're seeking to hire is already on your company's payroll but going untapped? Employees often have capabilities and aspirations that go far beyond their current job descriptions. Dr. Edie Goldberg will show you how to optimize and energize your workforce by deploying the skills of the employees you already have inside your firm across organizational boundaries.

This session will describe a bold new talent operating model that helps organizations to operate in a more agile manner. It allows your employees to bring their best selves to work while offering a platform that encourage continuous reskilling to prepare them for the changing skills required by your organization.

By attending this session, conference participants will learn:

  • The business case to change the way we work

  • How to uncover the hidden skills within your workforce

  • A new Talent Operating Model that changes our approach to work

  • The six core principles that support the Inside Gig

  • A case study to demonstrate the ROI of this new approach to work

In a rapidly changing economy that demands the constant reskilling of workers, the future belongs to companies that can access and deploy talent quickly and efficiently. Today’s organizations need to be able to quickly pivot and move talent to the greatest area of need. Unlock the hidden skills within your organization to keep your employees happy and engaged, improve your organization’s agility, and lower your costs.


 

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The Future of Work

In this dynamic and engaging session participants will be actively involved in both understanding the Future of Work and analyzing how this will impact your organization.  In this hands on workshop, participants will:

  • Learn about the five biggest forces of change impacting work today.

  • Assess how these forces of change are/may impacting their organization. 

  • Consider what needs to change to address strategic business priorities given the forces of change.

  • Consider four new roles HR needs to play in the organization giving the changing nature of work (optional)

Getting Ready for the Future of Work: How Leadership and Success Will Evolve

This session will begin with an overview of the five biggest forces of change impacting work.  We will then use this as a launching point to discuss how leadership needs to evolve given this changing nature of work and our workforce.  We will also discuss the changing nature of careers given this context.

 Performance Management

Changing the Focus in Performance Management: From Evaluation to Enablement

Research is beginning to paint a clear picture of just how much traditional performance management (PM) processes are not working. Research is also helping to pinpoint which design elements are key to helping organizations succeed.

Dr. Edie Goldberg will share her insights on the "why" behind the failure of PM today, how the changing nature of work should be influencing our process design, how companies can shift the focus from 'evaluating' to 'enabling' employees, and what we can learn from her December 2020 study on the impact of practices on the desired outcomes from PM.

Reimagining Your Approach to Performance Management (Reviews)

While the buzz in the press is all about companies abandoning performance reviews because they don’t work and are loathed by many, the truth is most companies are not eliminating the overall process of performance management – but they are changing it is very significant ways.

Join Dr. Edie Goldberg to learn how companies are moving from a traditional review process to a continuous performance management process.

The process is morphing from a “once-and-done” evaluation to on-going feedback and coaching. Sound easy… it’s not! Learn why and how companies are successfully making this transition.

In this session you will learn:

1.       Current research focused on innovation in performance management.

2.       How continuous performance management differs from traditional performance management.

3.       How to build your business case for change.

4.       The change management process need to support this shift.

5.       How today’s technology can enable a more dynamic process.