2010 NCHRA Chapter Event:
Creating a Culture that Rewards Performance
September 8, 7:30-9:00 am, Novato

Dr. B. Lynn Ware

Performance in many organizations in the Bay area has been hampered by the long recession and the resulting corporate “malaise” that employees feel when the organization is operating with limited resources and not “winning.” In addition, as the economy improves, your best employees may soon have an opportunity to leave your organization. Don’t let them leave due to lack of recognition when they have hung in there with you during the worst of times. Get your employees ready for the upturn by creatively rewarding them for early efforts to achieve individual and team goals for 2010.

Learn how to implement employee recognition, reward, and development programs, and how to influence managers as a means of creating an organizational culture that rewards employee accountability and performance. You’ll leave able to:

• Teach and influence managers to take action to recognize individuals for meeting both short- and long-term goals and objectives
• Start a Corporate Ambassador program within your organization
• Help managers set specific team goals for engaging their business units

Dates, times & locations:

• September 8 Breakfast, 7:30-9:00 am
  Marin Region, Novato
• November 18 Breakfast, 7:30-9:00 am
  East Bay Region, location TBA

About the Speaker: Dr. B. Lynn Ware, President and CEO of Integral Talent Systems, Inc. (ITS), is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and the founder and President of ITS, an internationally known talent management consulting firm. ITS offers state of the art tools and services for organizations who desire to attract, develop, engage and retain their top talent. Dr. Ware is frequently quoted on trends in talent management in numerous publications and has been featured several times on CNN as a national talent management expert.

ASTD Career Planning & Talent Management
Certificate Program
8:30-4:30 Sept. 14 & 15, 2010, Dallas, TX

Build a business case for talent management in your organization. Now more than ever, employees need to have the right skills to meet the strategic challenges of the organization and employee career-paths need to align with these objectives. This two-day program will explore processes essential to achieving an optimal match between individual and organizational needs; and promote individual growth and organizational renewal.

Steve Knight

The workshop will be facilitated by Steve Knight, Executive Vice President, Senior Consultant and Partner at ITS, and Bruce Runnfeldt, co-founder and President of InnerChange, Incorporated.

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Use a six-step ASTD model to identify areas for improvement and create a fully-integrated career planning and talent management process that aligns various functional areas
  
• Conduct job/competency analysis for roles in their organization
  
• View employer branding, attracting, recruiting, selecting, on-boarding, and performance management as critical components in a fully-integrated talent management approach
  
• Assess their organization's career planning process and use an ASTD model to improve it
  
• Develop a pipeline plan to ensure a steady stream of talent to fill key vacancies and create a succession plan for mission-critical positions
  
• Implement, evaluate, and sustain career planning and talent management efforts in their organization.

For more information or to register, visit the ASTD website.

Workforce Planning & Analysis 2010
Sept. 27 & 28, 2010, San Francisco
SFSU Graduate School of Business

Dr. B. Lynn Ware

Workforce Planning & Analysis 2010 is a comprehensive training opportunity that provides best-practice case studies, hands-on application workshops, small group trainer consultation, interactive roundtable dialogues, and peer-to-peer networking. This format is designed to give you effective tools for forecasting, measuring, and managing organizational needs for being a talent-driven organization.

Join Dr. B. Lynn Ware, President and CEO of ITS, at this conference for a session on Talent Management Solutions: An Integrated Approach to Talent Management & Succession Planning. This session covers how to:

• Create clearly defined linkages between talent planning processes, talent management needs and organizational strategies
• Identify core roles, manage talent needs, implement KPIs, and monitor evolving trends
• Optimize performance by attracting, engaging and retaining top talent
• Ensure resourcing priorities are met through effective training, succession planning and talent development
• Lifecycle modeling for talent management and succession planning
• Develop procedures to assess, manage and report results

For more information or to register, visit the Gateway Management, Inc. website.

ABECU Partners with ITS to Launch Career Development Program with American Eagle

As announced in the June 4 issue of The Missouri Difference, Anheuser-Busch Employees’ Credit Union (St. Louis) and its division American Eagle Credit Union (St. Louis) have launched their Career Development Program to provide employees the opportunity to work one-on-one with experienced individuals. The partnership helps employees focus on developing and growing within their field. ABECU and American Eagle partnered with Integral Talent Systems, Inc., which helps companies retain their top talent and competitive edge, for the program.

ITS Brings Retaining Talent
Certification Program to Canada

Recently, ITS brought its Retaining Talent Consultant Certification Program to Radical Entertainment Company in Vancouver, BC. The one-day session was limited to a maximum of 6 participants, who were certified as internal Talent Retention Consultants, able to work one-on-one with their managers to reduce their attrition risks. Participants completed the session qualified to lead a hands-on skill building session for up to five managers that they support.

In addition to proven models for reducing unwanted attrition, participants received the ITS Attrition Risk Assessment tool, Talent Retention Toolkit, and Talent Retention Action Planner to use with their company's managers.

Talent Retention Consultant Certification builds in-house capability, lowers external consulting costs, enhances HR's credibility, and helps build participants' careers, because the expertise remains with them. Certified Talent Retention Consultants are valuable retention consulting resources to their internal customers -- both the managers and the talented employees relying on them. For more information about the certification program, call ITS at 650-320-8299.

ITS Tackles Teacher Turnover
ITS consultants Dr. B. Lynn Ware and Steve Knight meet with the steering committee members of Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) to embark on a 5-year study aimed at retaining key teachers as district enrollment grows. ITS will implement the Employee Commitment Survey and the OutTakes Exit Interview System to collect the data that will be used in the study.