Week 1 Wednesday - Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Learn strategies and tactics to attract, retain and manage the best talent.
Week 1 Friday - Lesson 2
Lesson 2
Take an in depth dive into the recruiting process. You will learn about interviewing techniques and practices for assessing both skill and cultural fit as well gain an understanding on how bias can influence the decision-making process.
Week 2 Wednesday - Lesson 3
Lesson 3
Finding talent that is the right cultural fit for the organization is essential. You will learn how mission, vision and values impact the success of the talent management function. In addition, you will learn about the process and techniques for assessing candidate fairly and introduced to some of the federal legislation that impacts this process.
Week 2 Friday - Lesson 4
Lesson 4
You will learn about managing talent once they join the team. Now that you have them, how will you keep them? This lesson explores onboarding/orientation, mentoring/coaching, and learning/development and the role each one plays to keep employees engaged and delivering results.
Week 3 Wednesday - Lesson 5
Lesson 5
Here we look take a look at talent management from an organizational perspective. You will explore creative leadership and change management principles and how these can be leveraged to develop an integrated talent management function.
Week 3 Friday - Lesson 6
Lesson 6
Improving employee engagement and performance is at the forefront of issues facing organizations today. In this lesson, you will explore how mentoring and coaching can improve performance. You will also review the performance management process and the impact of this process on employee engagement and retention.
Week 4 Wednesday - Lesson 7
Lesson 7
In this lesson we look at the role performance plays in further developing talent. You will be able to distinguish between career management and career planning as part of the overall career development process. We will also explore the role of experiential learning as part career planning.
Week 4 Friday - Lesson 8
Lesson 8
You will learn about HILO’s (High Impact Learning Organizations) and what is a high impact learning culture. In addition, you will explore the use of analytics to develop metric in order to assess organizational results.
Week 5 Wednesday - Lesson 9
Lesson 9
You will explore the importance of providing clear, consistent and regular feedback to others and the role of feedback on performance. You will also explore coaching as an organizational competence and the impact coaching has on engagement and performance.
Week 5 Friday - Lesson 10
Lesson 10
Explore the role high performing teams have on engagement and business outcomes. You will learn about the importance of teamwork, providing a safe environment for sharing ideas, and the importance of trust on achieving organizational goals.
Week 6 Wednesday - Lesson 11
Lesson 11
You will explore strategies for managing talent and performance, the importance of alignment with organizational goals, budget considerations and negotiation techniques for achieving compromise that all sides can live with.
Week 6 Friday - Lesson 12
Lesson 12
Strategy is the focus of this lesson. You will explore the role of leadership and the use of various tools that are essential in developing a talent management strategy that is aligned with organizational objectives and can be successfully implemented.