The Human Capital Institute - 2006 National Summit

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The Summit was a great success! Here's what a few of your peers said about their experience:

"The program was inspiring. The pre-conference workshop that I took on Retention was the best one that I have taken. I'm already in the process of integrating that program in house." - Ron Thomas, Vice President, Organizational Development, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

"I was impressed by the size of your audience as well as the seniority of the people attending. You should be proud!" - Glenn K. Davidson, EquaTerra Public Sector

"This conference broke the mould; it combined high quality sessions with senior HR Professionals who could benefit from the experience and networking together." - Clinton Wingrove, CEO, Pilat (North America) Inc.

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A Conference for New Talent Practices, Tools and Metrics

Human Capital is a new business science that is quickly becoming critical knowledge for leaders across the enterprise. In today's global, broadband business world, organizations can no longer afford slow, incremental improvement. They must vault past their competitors with new ideas, innovative new products, and the agility to enter and exit markets on a dime.

Market leaders are moving away from the industrial-era HR model that manages people as one more "resource" in the supply chain. In fact, the traditional administrative HR activities required to support this model are already being commoditized, outsourced and off-shored, along with other command and control management practices.

Does your organization have a plan to find, engage and acquire only the most talented people in your market? Do your hiring managers know how to differentiate between a qualified candidate and an extraordinarily high-performing prospect? Are they encouraged to take a risk to find out? Do your line managers and executives empower and unleash the creativity in your workforce?

Winners in the knowledge economy will be those companies most able to consistently attract, capture, engage and empower the most talented people in their markets - and as Walter Wriston wrote: "Capital will always go where it is most welcome and stay where it is well-treated."

Fascinating Insight, Innovative New Ideas

The 2006 National Human Capital Summit offers one-stop access to over 50 of the most respected academics, seasoned practitioners and thought leaders in human capital management. Presenters include:

Dr. Richard Florida (The Rise of the Creative Class), Rich Kaarlgard (Publisher, Forbes Magazine), Dr. Noel Tichy (The Leadership Engine), Dr. Peter Cappelli (The New Deal at Work), Dr. Roger Martin (The Responsibility Virus), Dr. Sydney Finkelstein (Why Smart Executives Fail ) Dr. Jac Fitz-enz (The ROI of Talent Management), Hubert St. Onge (Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage), Dr. Phillippe Baumard (Tacit Knowledge in Organizations) Helen Handfield-Jones (Co-Author of The War for Talent) Dr. John Sullivan (Rethinking Strategic HR), Steve Smith (BuinessTHINK), Roger Herman (Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People)

And Corporate Presentations From: Deloitte, BearingPoint, Hewitt, Hewlett Packard, Dow Chemical, Cendant, British Telecom, Circuit City, AT&T, Prudential, SAP, Starbucks and many more...

Registrations Include HCI Professional Membership

Conference Attendees receive an HCI Professional Membership with registration. HCI's coalition approach offers each discipline a powerful value proposition, as well as a set of common resources that tap into exciting research, explore new ideas, create new strategies, share success, and grow their careers. Professional Membership includes:

Communities of Interest

HCI communities offer a rich network of exciting new ideas and innovative concepts. Members-only communities include: Talent Strategy, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development and Talent Management, as well as targeted solutions for Global 2000, Small to Mid-level Enterprise (SME), Academic, Non-profit and Government organizations.

Learning Tracks

HCI offers 50 distinct learning tracks that provide members-only news, commentary, cutting-edge research and education on the most important topics across the human capital landscape. Each Learning Track is managed and moderated by an interactive Community Leader, with extensive knowledge and experience in the field.

Blogs, Forums and Social Networks

HCI offers a wide range of web-based interactive tools to help members stay in touch and build new relationships. These include live assistance, moderated daily forums, blogging tools and a social network.

Thought Leadership Panels

Each Learning Track also offers a panel of expert academics, consultants, practitioners and executives who meet to share best practices, debate issues and develop new ideas. Members are provided access to meeting transcripts, and are briefed periodically by each panel.

Executive Briefings

Each week, thought leaders provide a private briefing for HCI members via the Web. This is an opportunity to network and interact directly from the leading thinkers and implementation experts in our industry.

Weekly Webcasts

Members are invited to learn at their desks with weekly webcasts. These highly interactive sessions are led by HCI experts and senior practitioners, and offer valuable insights and innovative ideas about the most important human capital issues today.

Case Studies

HCI finds new, interesting ideas and publishes members-only case studies throughout the year, focusing on the most innovative strategies in human capital management. You simply will not find these out-of-the-box ideas anywhere else.

Surveys and Research

HCI reaches over 500,000 human capital and corporate desktops with our quarterly surveys, and publishes benchmark, peer-reviewed research on talent strategy, acquisition, management and solutions.

Certification Programs

HCI offers powerful Certificate Programs for executives, strategic HR, executive search and organizational development professionals. HCI programs are state-of-the-art educational systems that produce rapid, thorough learning. Each program examines an important human capital management practice area, and includes home study and a rigorous examination.

Human Capital Strategist (HCS) Designation

Members who successfully complete the Human Capital Management Principles certificate program and examination are awarded the HCI Human Capital Strategist (HCS) designation. The HCS is the first professional industry designation in the human capital management field.

B-School Events

There's nothing like the powerful energy of sharing your challenges and insights with a local group of interested peers. HCI Networks meet quarterly to provide a highly interactive forum and eye-to-eye networking opportunities for executives and HCM practitioners in your city and region.

Human Capital Leadership Events

HCI partners with distinguished universities and business schools in 20 metropolitan areas to provide on-campus events featuring presentations by expert faculty, marquee corporate executives and entrepreneurial leaders. These are compelling business events that focus on emerging knowledge economy issues and the importance of human capital.

And Much More

HCI also offer members access to a proprietary database of hand-selected third-party articles, white papers, surveys, case studies, books and reviews, transcripts and slides; as well as vendor and candidate directories containing profiles and contacts for over 6,000 job boards, 20,000 recruiters and HR consultants, 3,000 product and service providers, 10,000 non-profit organizations and 3,000 colleges. HCI career tools include job boards for recruiters, human resources professionals and execeutives, and a proprietary career transition portal.