Human Resources and Talent Management Discussion

Human Resources and Talent Management

The Conference Board's expertise in talent management, demographics, and metrics, is striking a chord with executives struggling to align growth with an increasingly mobile and global labor market.

Evidence-Based HR Serves as the next generation in Human Capital Analytics, developed because HR leaders are already discovering that it is more and more difficult to depend on the traditional intuitive arguments for making your business case.	Compensation and Benefits Besides recruitment, HR professionals, line managers and organizational development (OD) professionals are using compensation and benefits for retention and workforce planning.
Diversity and Inclusion Diversity executives have to build their staffs while maintaining a sense of cohesion and inclusion in their companies.	Leadership Development Many senior-level executives identify Leadership Experience programs as the next generation of professional development.
Mature Workforce Rising retirements and a shrinking supply of younger workers are transforming the workplace. The Conference Board's Mature Workforce Initiative is committed to helping companies adjust to this demographic shift.	Strategic Workforce Planning Regardless of the approach, practitioners are finding the big challenges are in establishing accurate, consistent data company-wide, developing the right skill set within HR, and demonstrating to business leaders what strategic workforce planning can do.
Talent Management Companies are striving to recruit, retain and motivate their most valuable employees through a variety of working arrangements. But existing methods provide only part of the answer.	Workforce Readiness For the business community to help effectively advance solutions to address the skills gap and the related workforce readiness issue, we will have to challenge conventional thinking about what, where, when and how young people learn.

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Events/Forums

Conferences

Organization Design Conference
Adapting to Drive Growth in Changing Times

Change Management Conference
Creating Change Capability Across the Enterprise

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Councils

Council for Mid-Market Human Resources Executives – Western Division
This new Council is exclusively for senior Human Resources executives from Mid-Market and not-for-profit organizations. partner to its eastern counterpart, which was launched in 2004.

Council on Executive Coaching
This Council is dedicated to its members learning about, sharing, creating and implementing Executive Coaching best practices and protocols that will drive business results and develop individuals within organizations, while also advancing Executive Coach

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Research Working Group

Managing an Aging Workforce in the Nonprofit Sector
This working group will address challenges related to aging and a multigenerational workforce that may have a tremendous impact on the stability, growth, and potential of the nonprofit sector in coming years.

Building a Culture of Wellness
This working group will study and report on how wellness programs affect the organization, and how building a "culture of health" could help deliver both benefit management and business results that employers seek.

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Webcast

How to Integrate Benefit Design, Programs and Communication to Drive a Culture of Health Improvement

The World is Flat: Implications for Preparing Global Leaders

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Publications

Executive Action Reports
Speaking with Authority—the Case for Teaching English Language Proficiency on the Job As foreign-born workers become a larger share of the overall U.S. workforce and companies rely more and more on immigrant communities to supply their labor, employers are going to have to deal with language limitations in one way or another.		HR Challenge: Staffing Up to Expand Overseas You don't have to be a huge company to establish a presence in foreign markets. You do need to develop global leaders and learn how to recruit local talent.
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Research Reports
Weights & Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity This report shines a spotlight on obesity, and offers some solutions, and the potential rewards and risks of taking action.		New Graduates' Workforce Readiness: The Mid-Market Perspective This report presents a mid-market perspective on the workforce readiness of newly hired high school and college graduates.
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