In the face of significant business challenges such as global competition, emerging skills shortages and the need for product and process innovation, companies are looking for ways to enhance workforce effectiveness. Business leaders are exploring ways to deploy people more creatively to meet business priorities, develop talent to achieve potential, engage talent to unlock discretionary effort, and inspire talent to deliver their best performance. Best practice companies are developing comprehensive workforce strategies involving new sources of talent, improved approaches to building skills and managing knowledge, and clear lines of sight from daily tasks to business strategy. Creating work environments where talent adds value requires insights to workforce planning, talent development, drivers of engagement, and leadership performance.

In 2008 this e-learning track will look at the critical phases of workforce effectiveness to execute strategy through talent management. Webcasts will explore the ways companies are tailoring their approaches to maximize talent ROI and achieve specific business results. While each webcast stands alone the series will cover a variety of tools and approaches leading companies are using to shape a high-performance workforce and workplace.