General Sessions & Keynotes:
SumTotal product roadmaps, future insights and vision are the focus for the general topic track. These sessions will introduce you to industry experts and SumTotal visionaries as they unveil what the future holds for Learning & Talent Management – and how we can help your organization get there too. General sessions are geared towards our entire SumTotal customer community, so don’t miss out!
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Transforming Talent Management at the World’s Largest Retailer Speaker: John DiBenedetto Join John DiBenedetto, recently retired Vice President, Talent Planning and Development at Wal-Mart Stores (USA), for an insider’s look at how he and his colleagues built a “SuperCenter of Learning” for the world’s largest retailer – Wal-Mart. This SuperCenter, dubbed Wal-Mart University, has become the talent management arm for Wal-Mart USA. DiBenedetto’s keynote will open a window into how he and his team supercharged talent for one of America’s most famous brands. DiBenedetto will reveal what it took to spur change in concert with a sweeping companywide initiative to improve operations, processes and customer satisfaction. This high-powered keynote session will wrap up with a lively Q&A between DiBenedetto and audience members. No presentation available for download |
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SumTotal Product Roadmap: Leading the Talent Management Stampede Speaker: Bill Docherty |
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Trends in Development: The Rebirth of the Career Mindset Speaker: Cushing Anderson The labor shortage is upon us. Unemployment is down, productivity is slowing, competition is increasing and HR and development leaders are focused on the two big levers of improving recruitment and reducing turnover. Innovation and new approaches to employee engagement are all the rage - but long-established practices are making a comeback. A career philosophy can help organizations attract the right candidates and keep the right employees. This presentation will describe 5 critical elements to leveraging a career mindset into a successful organizational strategy and describe the relationship between career, succession and leadership. No presentation available for download |
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Giving Talent Management a Second Life Speaker: Thomas Brewer Speaker: Katherine Brown, Ed.D., Don't miss this thought-provoking presentation highlighting the use of virtual worlds – such as Second Life and other 3-D technology – to give conference goers a window into an entirely new paradigm for educating and developing public- and private-sector talent. IBM has found that Second Life and other virtual-world technologies offer a unique and compelling way to “onboard” employees and deliver management training to executives. Brewer and Dr. Brown will describe how this 3-D medium is now being tapped by corporations of all sizes to educate and develop workers. Their presentation will give TotalConnection attendees a behind-the-scenes look at the power of these online worlds for managing learning and talent. Along with business lessons from the 3-D online world, video clips of virtual worlds and examples of how Second Life has reaped dividends for corporate trainers, Brewer and Dr. Brown will explain how avatars – or electronic images – act as a bridge between real world talent management and virtual worlds. No presentation available for download |
