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.

Events/Forums

Conferences

Enterprise Learning Strategies Conference
Sustainability and Competencies: Aligned Drivers for Continuous Learning and Development

Work Life Conference
Collaborations for Change: Innovations in Challenging Times

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Councils

Council Alumni Program
The Council Alumni Program is designed to maintain a relationship between The Conference Board and core customers after they have left their councils due to retirement.

Council for Mid-Market Human Resources Executives
This council is exclusively for senior Human Resources executives from Mid-Market and not-for-profit organizations.

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Research Working Group

Multigenerational Knowledge Transfer
This working goup will address knowledge-retention challenges that organizations face due to shifting demographics and the search for new leadership talent.

Assessing Offshoring Risks: Thinking Through the Financial and Operational Issues
The Conference Board's new Working Group on Managing Offshoring Risks will provide leaders from organizations at all stages of offshoring operations with a much needed forum to discuss important concerns.

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Webcast

Navigating the Politics of Your Organization

Change Management and Communication
Using Decision Downloading to Overcome Skepticism, Resistance and Inertia

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Publications

Executive Action Reports
Can They Take It? What Happens When Older Employees Work Overtime Overtime is a key to profitability for many employers, and a boost to the paychecks of their employees. But is there a concomitant cost when, as is often the case, senior employees work extra hours?		Promoted to Fail? How Executive Coaching Can Improve Performance in Newly Promoted Executives Promotion to a new position with increased, often corporatewide responsibilities can be a tremendous challenge. The following narrative explains how executives in one organization used coaching to prevent a manager from "derailing" in a new position.
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Research Reports
Meeting the Challenges of a Dispersed Workforce: Managing Across Language, Culture, Time and Location This Working Group Report discusses issues like payoff from effective distance management, and selecting and developing employees for distance work.		Ready to Innovate This report presents the results of a survey of executives and school superintendents, and offers an overview of the current efforts both communities are making to encourage creativity in schools and workplaces.
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