The Human Capital Institute - National Human Capital Summit

In too many organizations today, employees say that their skills and talents are underutilized as they experience barriers to mobility and opportunities within their companies. Few companies understand their talent well enough to effectively deploy individuals into the right job at the right time. When leadership sees that planning and developing talent are aligned with corporate priorities, employees' productivity and passion for work rises, giving their companies competitive advantage and reduced turnover and recruitment costs. To leverage human capital potential and motivation, it is necessary to align work with talents, ambitions, and passions. In this learning track we explore the next-practices and initiatives in talent development, management and optimization in market-leading companies and how these actions affect their companies' competitive success.

Performance

Corporate performance drives global organizations to achieve their strategic goals. Successful companies will continue to out perform their competition in the market place. Join this track to hear how thought leader on strategy, superior innovation and leadership producing measurable results from their investment in talent. It is an imperative that companies learn ways to out perform their competitors to continue to achieve growth and success.

Talent Management

Organizations finally have access to strategic technologies that, if synchronized, can enable end-to-end talent management. Some of the technology exists in a "best of breed", stand-alone format. Some resides in suite products that aim to deliver the entire spectrum under one roof. Others are available from BPOs that have created, among other things, HCM platforms for strategic talent optimization. To address coming labor market conditions and to remain competitive, organizations must understand and deploy technologies to support their HCM strategies.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Leadership Track Keynote 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Concepts and Strategies for Growing Adaptability Skills in Rising Executives

This presentation offers leading concepts on the nature of adaptability and the processes that promote successful adaptive leadership. These processes and the skills behind them have become especially crucial for executive success in today's dynamic and global environment. Training and developing adaptive leaders requires new and innovative strategies. We will discuss conceptual models that form the foundation of these strategies, and present empirical evidence for their validity. We will conclude with a set of prescriptions for growing adaptability skills in rising executives.

Presenters:	Stephen Zaccaro, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, George Mason University Author of "The Nature of Executive Leadership: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis of Success"
	Zachary Horn, M.A. George Mason University

Performance Track Keynote 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Leading In a Connected World

In today's flatter, knowledge-intensive organizations work of significance demands effective collaboration within and across functional, physical and hierarchical boundaries. To drive performance and innovation, leaders must begin to manage connectivity as a critical resource in organizations. This presentation will demonstrate how leaders can:

Improve organizational effectiveness by managing value creation in networks

Drive innovation by managing points of creative friction and distribution of expertise in networks

Improve organizational performance by replicating relational and behavioral network characteristics of high performers through talent management and leadership development processes

Presenter:

Robert Cross
Professor of Management
University of Virginia
Research Director of the Network Roundtable

Talent Track Keynote 10:00 am - 11:30 am

The Fuel to Power Performance: Leadership, Diversity, and Innovation

Julie Gilbert's capacity to tap employees' passions to drive innovation and value has earned her a reputation as one of the fastest-rising leaders in corporate America. At Best Buy, Inc., she leads retail training, leadership development, and the company's innovation engine for the more than 140,000 Best Buy employees internationally. She also created and leads the Winning With Women strategy for the company, which is powered by WOLF (Women's Leadership Forum). Under her leadership, Best Buy has achieved significant business outcomes in employee recruiting, retention, and customer market share. In this presentation, Julie shares the strategies she and her team utilize to mine new growth markets, identify unmet customer needs, and create value by leveraging diversity of thought inside and outside of Best Buy.

Presenter:

Julie Gilbert
SVP, Retail Training, Leadership Development
Best Buy

Leadership 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Talent Transformation Case Study: How the Best is Becoming Better

The Armaments Research Development Engineering Center (ARDEC) is the United States' foremost armaments R&D engineering center. Since its inception it has driven quality and continuous improvement through an engineering mindset focused on management efficiency. Two years ago, Dr. Joseph King was appointed Chief Human Capital Officer with a mandate to lead ARDEC to even greater heights through the scientific and creative management of talent. One of Dr. King's key initiatives has been to partner with the Human Capital Institute in a "Talent Transformation" project spanning more than twelve months and involving hundreds of leaders and line managers.

In part, Dr. King's work has led ARDEC to become the first government organization to win the coveted Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award (2008), the nation's highest award for performance excellence. Join Dr. Joseph King and HCI's President & Executive Director, Allan Schweyer for a look at ARDEC's talent transformation and how a no nonsense engineering organization is learning to love talent management. All attendees will receive a copy of HCI's ARDEC Talent Transformation case history upon which this session is based.

Presenters:	Joe King Chief Human Capital Officer US Army ARDEC
	Allan Schweyer President Executive Director Research Human Capital Institute

Performance Track 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm

The Business Case for Performance Management

One of the fastest growing segments of HR software today is the market for online employee performance management systems. And yet, many companies are challenged to understand the drivers and benefits of these systems in a way that allows them to cost justify them to upper management. Attend this session to hear about the evolution of performance management software, the proven benefits we are seeing in the marketplace, and the factors to consider when looking at solution providers. Also, hear about some recent case studies that highlight hard savings.

As an added bonus, everyone who attends this session will receive Bersin & Associates' just-published research report, The Business Case for Performance Management Systems: A Handbook for HR Executives and Managers.

Presenters:	Leighanne Levensaler Principal Analyst Bersin & Associates
	Lisa Hartley Director of Product Marketing Taleo

Talent Track 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Underestimating Ingenuity

Your business is experiencing tremendous change: it's your job to help the organization manage that change via the talent in the organization. So here you come with amazing technologies, programs, procedures and processes. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." In this interactive session, we'll work together to not just make your talent programs and technology work for you, but to get past acceptance and beyond enthusiasm. We will learn from each other's big mistakes and get back to the basics. What's ONE THING that you will do differently to make your high-tech solutions and ingenious strategy work toward your end goal at every level of your company? Join us and discover what the most successful leaders are doing to drive solid, consistent results through people who understand the opportunities and want to be part of the solution! You'll be glad you did.

Presenters:	Glen Goodman SVP Organizational Development and Human Capital Centex Corporation
	Susan Powell Training, Development and Communications Kirland's Home

Leadership Track 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Unlocking the DNA of the Adaptable Workforce

As a business executive today, you face a host of pressures, including volatile markets, global competition, and the emergence of new business models. These pressures are forcing organizations to be more responsive to shifting market needs; more flexible in how they operate; more focused on their core competencies; more nimble at partnering; and more resilient to external threats.

IBM asked over 400 HR executives in 40 countries how they are addressing the pressures of today's business environment. One thing was clear, success in any of these areas is dependent on the organization's ability to develop a workforce than can adapt to change. The results are detailed in our new Global Human Capital Study, entitled Unlocking the DNA of the Adaptable Workforce. This highly interactive session will focus on the key findings of the study and their impact on innovation in the human capital space.

Moderator:

Denis Brousseau
Partner
IBM Global Business Services

Performance Track 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Seeing Beyond the Horizon in Talent Management

Talent strategies bring great promise as well as challenges. How do organizations keep up with the latest talent trends and solutions that will make them more competitive? Only organizations armed with the latest information and best strategies will come out on top. There are many solutions being discussed in the Human Capital Management market space but which are really working for leading companies? What are the leaders planning for the future? In this interactive panel with representatives from organizations that are existing leaders in HCM practices we will discuss emerging industry-leading trends in talent management and engagement.

Moderator:	Michelle Newell Sr. Director HCM Product Marketing Oracle
Panelists:	Matty TagaAllen Director of Global HRIS Gilead
Panelists:	Bruce Sherman Global Practice Leader Towers Perrin