100567 - Strategic Planning For Your People Series
Overview
This is a 4 part series for Human Resource professionals. The different sections can be taken together in a series or can be broken out to attend only one or more of the sessions.
Building the Right Team - Best Hiring practices from aligning job descriptions to interviewing questions (90 minutes): This workshop will explore best practices related to designing and filling positions to align with organizational needs. Key questions addressed: Why does a great hire start with an effective job description? Where do you set the bar for candidates to clear for hiring? How do you use interviews to gather information you can actually use to choose between candidates?
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Recognize components of effective job descriptions
2. Determine clear thresholds for evaluation candidate qualifications
3. Design an interview structure to elicit useful information to inform hiring decisions
Setting the Stage - Growing and developing your employees (120 Minutes): This workshop will explore best practices related to integrating new employees and setting your teams up for success. Key questions addressed include: What do you do once the employee begins? How do you start them off on the right foot? How do you keep employees engaged? How do you identify and address the needs of the employee?
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Identify elements of productive onboarding processes
2. Construct individualized approaches to performance development
3. Evaluate individual performance within the broader organizational context
Employee Commitment & Engagement in Our New Normal (90 minutes): There are many factors that impact an employee’s commitment to the organization and engagement in their work. When managers focus on these elements, employees excel. In turn, the organization will be more productive and better accomplish its goals. Additionally, as organizations move beyond COVID-19, managers need to consider the impact that the pandemic had on its employees as well as new expectations employees might have for flexibility. Managers who have only worked with full-time, in-person employees may now struggle to engage workers in hybrid work structures going forward. This workshop will explore these elements and more to help managers lead their organizations to success.
Key questions addressed: What elements of employee commitment and engagement should managers focus on? What influence did the pandemic have on the workforce and how might that impact the organization? What can managers do to improve employee engagement post-pandemic? How can managers monitor employee engagement over time to strengthen their employees’ commitment to the organization’s success?
In this workshop, participants will learn to:
1. Recognize components of employee engagement and commitment.
2. Identify opportunities and challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic for employee engagement and commitment.
3. Propose managerial actions that can improve employee engagement and commitment in a post-pandemic setting.
Succession Planning – (90 minutes): This workshop explores a holistic approach to succession planning focused on aligning employees and their skills with the organization’s strategic goals. Key questions addressed: What are the organization’s mid-term and long-term strategic goals? What are the critical competencies or (KSAs) needed to reach each strategic goal? Do your employees currently possess these skills? If they do, how do you ensure that you keep or build depth in these skills? If they don’t, how do you address the skills gap?
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Differentiate between important and critical competencies for accomplishing strategic goals
2. Perform a skills gap analysis
3. Develop a plan to strengthen existing skills and mitigate any gaps