Opening Keynote: Succession Planning DISRUPTED
Presented By: DeRetta Rhodes, Senior Vice President Human Resources, Atlanta Braves
During a time of complete disruption, how do you continue to drive the importance of succession planning and the focus on your high potential talent to keep them engaged. During this session we will discuss continuing the momentum of succession planning through a disruption and the tools you can take away to support the sustainability of succession planning.
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Leadership Has The Same Lends: How To Create Leadership Training That Is Applicable And Valueable For All People Leadership Levels
Presented By:
Cheryl Kerrigan, Vice President People, BlueCat
Shelia Austin, Director Learning & Development, BlueCat
Is leadership really that different in the various hierarchies of an organization? Should we be separating leaders during development based on experience, responsibility and level? How can you create a culture of vulnerability between leaders learning from each other? Technology organization BlueCat will take you on their journey of how and why they held a Leadership Summit with over 80 people leaders from all levels of the organization on fundamental leadership concepts. They will communicate what they learned, in what way they got everyone involved and how the result positively impacted their organizational engagement scores as well as helped to create a culture of vulnerability in their leaders.
This session will focus on how to:
- Obtain alignment throughout all levels on what it means to be a people leader
- Gain buy-in on leadership development up to the Executive Level
- Begin to create a culture of vulnerability with your leaders
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High Potential Leaders: Eight Great Traits
Presented By: Chad Carlile, Senior Consultant, DeGarmo
Identifying and developing high potential employees (HiPos) continues to be a topic that dominates discussion among the talent management community. Business researchers and executives have invested considerable time trying to pinpoint the competencies, characteristics and related work styles that HiPos have in common – that is, their behavioral DNA. This has resulted in different emerging HiPo models – some that are oversimplified and others that are far too complex.
During this session, we’ll present data that decodes how high potentials are different in a simple, logical way. DeGarmo conducted research with over 750 leaders from different organizations that helped to answer two separate but related questions: (1) how do organizations describe high potential leaders, and (2) what are the specific behaviors and experiences that HiPos have that are different from others?
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Leveraging High Potentials To Develop Full Cycle Leaders Development Programs
Presented By: Jessica Aviles, Vice President Talent Management, The ALS Group
Finding the right talent at the start of their career with little to no experience can be difficult when trying to shape the next generation of leaders in an organization. Some talent may join a team bringing with them the habits or knowledge they picked up somewhere else at the start of their career… this is all they know.
Needless to say, experiences acquired in previous roles may not be aligned with your organization now or where it is headed according to its 5-year plan. The session will focus on what an internship program or internal professional development can do in shaping the entry level talent in your organization along with what a new hire really looks for in reaching their full potential.
- Learn how to develop, nurture and source for “home grown” candidates in a specific industry
- Identify which employees are the right fit for you and if you’re the right fit for them
- Identify the critical thinking skills necessary to be successful in their role
- Identify a new hire’s work ethic and overall culture fit within your organization; they can talk the talk but can they walk the walk?
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Career Development: An Inside Look At How An Interna Program Can Help “Home Grow” Talent
Presented By: Dynasti Hunt, Managing Director Talent & Equity, Third Sector Capital Partners
In today’s working environment, hi-potential talent is being quickly identified and recruited out of organizations before a company even realizes that this internal talent exists.
There is a need for organizations to understand how to build systems that will help hi-potential leaders to grow and feel they have clear pathways for continued growth within the organization so that they are not constantly needing to rebuild their internal talent pipeline.
This session will focus on how organizations can build internal talent systems through mentoring, coaching, and training that have limited impact on an operating budget and high-value return on retaining your hi-potential talent.
- Learn how to identify hi-potential talent earlier and how to build structures for engaging them
- Understand how to build 3 different systems to help retain hi-potential talent
- Learn how to integrate strategies of racial equity and inclusion into the identification and development of hi-po talent systems
- Learn how to leverage your entire organization to retain top talent
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Career Development: An Inside Look At How An Interna Program Can Help “Home Grow” Talent
Presented By: Dynasti Hunt, Managing Director Talent & Equity, Third Sector Capital Partners
In today’s working environment, hi-potential talent is being quickly identified and recruited out of organizations before a company even realizes that this internal talent exists.
There is a need for organizations to understand how to build systems that will help hi-potential leaders to grow and feel they have clear pathways for continued growth within the organization so that they are not constantly needing to rebuild their internal talent pipeline.
This session will focus on how organizations can build internal talent systems through mentoring, coaching, and training that have limited impact on an operating budget and high-value return on retaining your hi-potential talent.
- Learn how to identify hi-potential talent earlier and how to build structures for engaging them
- Understand how to build 3 different systems to help retain hi-potential talent
- Learn how to integrate strategies of racial equity and inclusion into the identification and development of hi-po talent systems
- Learn how to leverage your entire organization to retain top talent
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Building Top Talent From Within
Presented By: Wanda Hayes, Assistant Vice President Learning & Organizational Development, Emory University
In today’s world, we have recently seen so many changes. First, we saw record low unemployment where securing the best external talent was difficult. Then, there was the sudden and unexpected shift to record high unemployment and hiring freezes in many organizations. In both scenarios, developing your internal high-potential leaders is an excellent way to establish a pool of top talent that is prepared to move your organization forward and already has a proven fit with your organization’s culture. This session will present a case study of how one organization is developing their high potentials for the executive level.
Participants will learn:
- How to identify employees with potential to move into senior leadership positions.
- Strategies to develop both skill sets and mind sets.
- How to incorporate action learning that moves the strategy of the organization forward.
- How to measure the impact of internal development programs.
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Creating And Implementing High Potential Programs That Deliver Results
Presented By: Lisa Manegold, Vice President Talent, National Express
In today’s war on talent, keeping your high-potentials in house, contributing to the bottom line and ensuring their readiness for next level roles is an evolving challenge. To respond, organizations can re-evaluate their high-potential development programs to ensure they are real-time, relevant, pragmatic yet robust and include a variety of learning experiences to accelerate development, drive results build leadership depth. The focus of this session is to share best practices from three successful high-potential programs that include effective selection processes, assessment tools and developmental opportunities which continue to produce a strong pipeline of emerging, first line and middle-level leaders.
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What It Takes To “LeAD” At PepsiCo: Building A High-Potential Leadership Assessment And Development Program
Presented By: Allan Church, Senior Vice President Global Talent Management, PepsiCo
While leadership is a critical component to success in organizations, many leaders fail when promoted to higher level positions. This raises the question – is there a better way organizations can determine which leaders will be successful in the future? This session will illustrate how one large, global Fortune 100 company is addressing this challenge via PepsiCo’ Leadership Assessment and Development (LeAD) program. The purpose of LeAD is to identify, develop, and move talent across the enterprise using a rigorous and consistent approach. LeAD uses a multitrait multi-method approach to assessment tailored at different levels of leadership spanning from early career to the most seasoned leaders. Participants receive overall strengths and opportunities against PepsiCo’s leadership model, as well as an assessment index score which is a validated predictive score of future potential.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the building blocks of leadership potential
- Learn how using assessments can help identify and measure potential
- Understand what impact an assessment and development program may have on talent processes
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Not Your Average Talent (Self) Assessment: A Disruptive Approach To Talent Reviews
Presented By: Kathleen King, Vice President Learning And Talent, Omnicom Health Group
We’ve all flocked to the sessions titled “Blow up the 9-Box” and “Why Talent Reviews Don’t Work.” This isn’t that. In industries where talent is deployed and redeployed often due to client demands, changing scopes of work, promotions, and turnover it is important to have a current measure of not only the performance of talent but also an understanding of their degree of potential. In this session, we will explore the somewhat radical and disruptive way in which we measure potential at Omnicom Health Group (OHG) through the use of self-assessments.
At OHG, an organization with growth mindset in its DNA, our talent review begins with each employee self-assessing their degree of potential. Upon assessment submission, employees are provided opportunities for self-directed development around the key metrics used as our measure of potential.
- Explore the supporting neuroscience behind the OHG Talent Profile
- Learn how results are paired with self-directed learning
- Follow the data to the talent mapping and calibration process
- Discover how we leverage results in talent and business decisions
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Talent Optimization: Developing Leaders Thru High Performance Coaching
Presented By: Mary Meston, Vice President Talent Management, Concentrix
While much of the focus in more traditional learning and development approaches is on skill enhancement – real growth, development and optimization for executive and hi pots happens through high performance coaching. High performance coaching focuses on key levers that optimize the potential within both hi potential and leadership levels.
High Performance Coaching accelerates the return on both business outcomes as well as employee engagement metrics and is providing a next generation source for employee engagement, retention and recruitment.
This approach works in all industries, size of organizations and target audiences. This session will focus on how high-performance coaching is both a key strategy as well as differentiator, creating an environment where development becomes part of an effective full cycle talent management strategy.
- Learn the key high-performance levers in this optimization approach
- Identify where this strategy best fits in the talent cycle
- Learn how to assess best fit for the program.
- Learn how to initiate a high-performance optimization program
- Better understand the role it plays in talent management, employee engagement and business strategy
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Rethinking The Nine Box And The Talent Review Process
Presented By: Robin Willis, Director Talent Development And Learning, Piedmont Healthcare
Over the last 40 years, the Nine-Box has become the most commonly used succession planning tool with employees placed into one of nine boxes based on the amount of potential and performance he/she demonstrates.
However, increasingly talent management professionals are expressing challenges with the tool such as not enough differentiation between the box descriptions, too many choices leading to confusion among people leaders and excess time spent in talent review sessions debating employee placement instead of focusing on development opportunities.
This session will focus on a validated process and tool to identify high potentials and high performing employees across all key functions and prepare them for advancement.
- Examine why the talent review process should be ‘decupled’ from performance evaluations
- Explore a new tool that provides clear differentiation between categories and is more intuitive to people leaders
- Discuss the effectiveness of pre-talent review huddle meetings and calibration sessions
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Breaking The Vicious Cycle: Retire Opinions And Bring Data Into Your Talent Management Process
Presented By: Polina Zlatev, Vice President Global Talent Management, Novelis
Accurately identifying and accelerating top talent’s growth to their destination roles has become more critical than ever during this time of limited resources across different industries and the ever-increasing needs for top talent in critical roles. Our traditional talent review tools and processes have been failing us- research shows that large percentage of the 9-box ‘top talent’ is actually not top talent at all and sharing opinions during talent review discussions still largely influences top talent identification.
This session will focus on how to fundamentally change your talent review approach by introducing data in the conversation and shifting it to targeted development plan commitments to accelerate development towards destination roles.
- Learn how talent profiles and data can help increase top talent identification accuracy
- Identify the right career paths with critical bridge roles to accelerate successors’ readiness for their destination roles
- Balance the right level of transparency in messages to your top talent about their potential
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Transformative HiPo Programs: Developing Talent To Meet The Changing Needs Of The Business
Presented By: Connie Bustamante, Director High Potential Programs, Pfizer
When a company enters an exciting period of growth and transformation, leadership development needs to be reimagined in parallel. The aim of this session is to exemplify a case in which a novel purpose, blueprint and organizational values, created the need for an innovative approach to high-potential development.
Despite the success of the existing learning programs, the challenge was to create an alternative with significant impact in readiness and performance of HiPos, and at the same time, supportive of organizational values. Learn more about the resulting learning architecture for high potential development that starts with a greater reach when identifying talent and is infused with experiences that are personalized, social and grounded in technology.
