Philadelphia SHRM Professional Development Series:
Talent Acquisition Thursday, November 1, 2007
7:30am-11:30am
This program has been approved for 3.25 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). Please be sure to note the program ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.
Breakout Session I: Topic: Becoming a Talent Magnet, Strategically Upgrading Your Workforce
Session Description: Talent management is crucial to the health of a company, and, if not strategically planned, your organization could lose its magnet to attract the best people. Developing a system to manage a company's talent, including a system for both Human Resources (HR) and recruiting, requires a lot of careful planning. Three experts are coming together from different HR roles to share their knowledge and real-life experiences in several areas that impact the management of the workforce.
Panelists:
Michael Murphy, Director, Recruiting and Staffing, Prudential Financial, Inc.
Vandette Anderson, Nurse Recruitment Manager, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Nicole Edwards, Director of Talent Acquisition/Staffing, ARAMARK Higher Education
Michael J Murphy Bio:
Michael Murphy is the Director of Recruiting and Staffing at Prudential Financial in Newark, NJ. Prior to joining Prudential, he worked in a number of roles in the Talent Acquisition Group at Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, including an international assignment supporting the Middle East and Africa region. Mr. Murphy holds a Bachelor’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University, and is currently pursuing an MBA at Rutgers University Business School.
Vandette Anderson Bio:
Vandette Anderson is the Manager of Nurse Recruiter for The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia. With a nursing population of over 2,000 at CHOP,
Vandette leads the efforts of recruiting for nursing for the #1 pediatric
hospital in the country. Vandette has been with the organization for almost
a year and has 15+ years of employment, staffing, recruitment and consulting
experience with a strong emphasis on building recruitment/talent acquisition
strategies within IT, healthcare and the legal industries.
Nicole Edwards Bio: Nicole Edwards began her career with ARAMARK Higher Education early 2005 and is presently managing all staffing/recruitment for the $1.6 billion dollar business. Nicole, along with her team is responsible for sourcing/recruiting, interviewing, on boarding, supporting internal succession and retention initiatives as well as pipeline building for entry level management positions through to VP level. She is also very involved in diversity partnerships/recruitment efforts, college relations and external strategic partnerships. Prior to joining ARAMARK, Nicole was the Human Resources Manager with the Philadelphia Zoo. In that role she supported the organization and its 400+ employees in all phases of the Human Resources process from recruitment through to separation. Prior to that, Nicole worked in the staffing industry partnering with organizations in the Hospitality and Financial Services sectors.
Breakout Session II: Topic: Decision-Making Tools: Measuring, Managing, and Growing Human Capital
Speaker: William Schiemann, Ph.D, Founder and CEO, Metrus Group
Session Description:
At a time when the war for talent is fast becoming a major strategic issue, HR departments must adopt the most advanced decision-making tools for measuring, managing, and growing human capital. The new “People Equity” paradigm for understanding the dynamics of employee motivation, performance, and retention, along with the tools required to make, measure—and justify to C-suite players—key resource-investment decisions will be discussed.
Drawing on years of research Dr. Schiemann and his colleagues have conducted in talent management and employee motivation, results from a recent 50-company benchmarking study, and an analysis of best-practice organizations, this session will give participants proven ways for HR professionals to raise people equity and their level of contribution to organizational success. A case study will provide real-world application. Attendees will:
Be introduced to a new People Equity construct that will enable HR leaders to demonstrate the overall utilization and potential of their workforce investments to gain C-suite understanding and support.
Learn to measure the three elements of People Equity—alignment, capabilities, and engagement—and how to connect these to talent acquisition, development, and retention
Develop awareness of what best-practice organizations are doing in a market that operates with less than 2.5 percent unemployment.
Assess why employee engagement isn’t sufficient to drive retention, customer loyalty, and financial performance—and what to do about it.
Determine how employee surveys can be strategically reframed to provide leading indicators and decision support for a range of human resource-allocation decisions.
Learn from a case example that illustrates the use of a range of innovative talent management decision tools and their effect on senior management’s commitment to HR initiatives.
William A. Schiemann is founder and CEO of Metrus Group, an organizational research and advisory firm specializing in strategic performance measurement and organizational change. Dr. Schiemann and his colleagues have consulted extensively with many major corporations on the development and implementation of business strategies, employee and customer assessment, strategy-operations alignment, productivity and quality improvement, communications effectiveness, culture change, and mergers and acquisitions. Dr. Schiemann and his firm are known for their pioneering work in the creation of performance gauges and scorecards, and for establishing linkages between employee, customer, and financial measures.
William Schiemann is co-author of Bullseye! Hitting Your Strategic Targets through High-Impact Measurement, and has written dozens of articles for business publications. He also holds the office of Secretary/Treasurer of the SHRM Foundation.
Dr. Schiemann received a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from the Stuart School at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Speaker: Jennifer Keitt, President and Founder, T.J. Communications
Session Description:
The world is changing at such a mind-blowing, hurtling rate so it's good to get reminded of it now and then and really take a look at what you and your organizations can do to stay prepared. Jennifer will give you tips on staying focused while searching for the best in the market. In this session, she will also help you learn how to accept change and become secure in the knowledge that you can deal with whatever "shifts" happen.
Attendees will take away from this session the ability to:
engineer an environment in which employees can learn how to assess value and recognize what their unique talents, skill-sets, value and contributions are to their employers.
equip employees with the skill of taking their professional goals and strategically linking them to the organizational goals of their employers.
inspire employees to embrace their value to the organization ‘bench-to-bedside!’
teach employees how to intentionally develop and build their unique leadership skills and abilities in a global, diverse, constantly changing culture.
share with employees strategies, ideas ad thoughts about building collaborative work skills.
inspire a new found awareness about the endless possibilities of working productively and contributing brilliantly to their department and hospital.
broaden the perspective of employees by challenging paradigms surrounding the concept of leadership – with the intent of moving them to a position of life leadership – ‘leading without titles’.
educate professionals about the importance of their own personal health and well-bring in the execution of their daily responsibilities at work.
equip employees with the tools to balance life while striving for the organizations core competencies – communication, accountability, service, valuing diversity, teamwork, and delivering excellence.
She’s RIVETING, REAL and RELEVANT! Powerhouse speaker, motivator and author, Jennifer Keitt, reaches over 1,000,000 people weekly with one simple truth: “You can be successful in life every day!” Leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs—women and men—globally have been touched with Jennifer’s ability to inspire and encourage them to live confident, powerful lives. She has earned honors for her contributions as the founder and host of the nationally syndicated Today’s Black Woman Radio Show.
A graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Broadcast Journalism, Jennifer’s life mission to “empower, educate, equip and encourage” has become a way of life in her roles as wife and mother of four. After turning her love for feature reporting into a radio show that would make a difference, Jennifer and her husband Tony (both media veterans) launched T.J. Communications Inc. a media consulting and communications company.
T.J. produces and distributes radio programming, consults radio stations and coaches professionals in the area of personal and professional success, speaking, presenting and communicating, through unique Inspirational Professional Development/Training and its newly launched COMMUNICATOR’S WORKSHOP.
Jennifer loves inspiring individuals to take charge of their lives and careers and achieve their dreams of greatness and balance and she passionately specializes in working with clients who are ready to move to their next level of success and beyond! Her desire to help people win in life is evident in the excellent standard she commands of herself and others.
Jennifer lives with her husband and their four children—Morgan, 19, Naomi, 17, Caleb, 13, and Samantha, 12—in Atlanta.
Partial Client List
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professionals Trained: Executive Leadership, Research, Child Life Assistants, Administrative Assistants, Human Resources, Marketing, Middle Level, Front Line Management and High Potential Leaders.
Cox Enterprises, WALR-FM Radio Station
Professionals Trained: Sales Manager(s) and Account Executives.
University of Minnesota
Pan-African Conference/Trained: College men and women: Freshmen – Graduate, Community Leaders, Education Professionals, and Business and Civic Leaders.
Kutztown University
Trained: College Freshmen-Senior Women
Countless Keynote Addresses, Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
Location:
Loews Philadelphia
Hotel
1200 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA
19107
