Talent Management and Performance Management Track:
Today's learning and performance leaders must align their programs with key business drivers to support the company in achieving objectives. Topics in this track will focus on how to develop integrated solutions that address employee performance and drive business value through talent management. Sessions in this track will offer a look at Talent Management, SumTotal’s TotalPerformance offering and how peers are utilitizing the solution to meet their business initiatives. Topics will include new hire orientation/onboarding, competency development, talent management, performance appraisals, succession planning, emerging performance technologies and more.
The ABCs of Talent Management
A couple years ago no one had heard of it, and now, the term “Talent Management” is everywhere! But what does it really mean? And where do you start? Join SumTotal’s Dawn Cassidy, Senior Director of Global Talent Management and Total University, to learn the basics:
- What is Talent Management? Discover the elements of a strong Talent Management model and how they are integrated.
- How do I start? Learn how to make your Talent Management initiative soar. With an interactive approach, Dawn will explore how to’s with you including:
- Assessing where to start
- Building your case
- Creating a plan aligned with business strategy
- Developing the ROI
- Executing on your initiative – every time.
Speaker: Dawn Cassidy, Sr. Director of Global Talent Management and Total University, SumTotal Systems, Inc.
JEA's Journey Using Automated Performance Management for Strategy Execution and Corporate Success
Join JEA as they share how they evolved from ineffective Performance Management systems to today’s TotalPerformance solution, a web-based, centrally managed, integrated system which helps drive corporate strategy development, alignment from top to bottom, results tracking, accountability and incentive systems.
This presentation will include the steps JEA took over the last 6 years, including how they got started, defining performance expectations and success measures, aligning HR to be successful, driving internal cultural change and linking performance expectations versus actual results with incentive systems. You will see how we progressed over time giving you ideas on how you can get started.
Speaker: Greg Lynn, Manager, Performance Management, JEA
Introduction to TotalPerformance – The Live Tour
This session will provide an up-close look and live demonstration of SumTotal’s TotalPerformance solution. Come discover how TotalPerformance’s Goal Management, Performance Appraisals, Multi-rater/360 Feedback and Workforce & Succession Planning modules share and exchange data delivering the powerful ability to execute business strategy through your entire enterprise. You’ll also learn more about the seamless integration with SumTotal’s TotalLMS delivered in the new 7.6 release.
Speaker: Robert Sandy, Senior Product Specialist, SumTotal Systems, Inc.
The Business of Talent Management: Establishing ROI
Establishing a solid business case for your Talent Management initiative gives you the leverage to gain executive support – and the “big stick” you need to ensure business line follow-through. Using actual case studies with proven results, Dawn Cassidy, SumTotal’s Senior Director of Talent Management and Total University, will walk you through how to:
- Establish your business case
- Define the delta between where you are and where you want to be
- Coach your executives to lead/champion employee buy in
- Determine quantitative and qualitative measures
- Design a reporting strategy that gives you the edge you need to get results.
Speaker: Dawn Cassidy, Sr. Director of Global Talent Management and Total University, SumTotal Systems, Inc.
Click here to download handouts which includes Nine Best Practices for Effective Talent Management, The CEO’s Guide to: Talent Management, The Role of HR in the Age of Talent, Talent Management Terms & Definitions.
TotalPerformance: Tales from the Field
Tales from the Field revealed! Join veteran Performance Management expert, Jeff Lyons of SumTotal as he presents a close-up look at creative and non-standard ways that clients have leveraged TotalPerformance. From using Succession Planning to staff ‘Task Forces’ for special projects to using Performance Appraisal for gathering Exit Interview data, you’ll explore through mini-case studies what you can be doing tomorrow at your organization.
Speaker: Jeff Lyons, SumTotal Systems, Inc.