9 courses have been selected to be included in this category:
Applicant Screening: The First Step in Hiring the Best: Talent management starts with hiring the right person for the job. Applicant screening takes a lot of work, and much of this work is done prior to the actual interview. This course covers how to create a job description, which will help you evaluate an applicant's resumé effectively. You'll learn key techniques for screening resumés based on job requirements, as well as how to identify red flag issues in resumés and how to approach them. These techniques will help you recruit, and hire, the best people.
Estimated duration: 30 minutes.
Building Career Development Programs and Succession Planning: An organization can't achieve its strategic business goals if it doesn't have the needed human capacity and skills - the talent - to do this. Managing talent effectively means your organization will have a total workforce optimized for overall success in achieving its goals. In this course, you'll learn about creating development programs for everyone from emerging employees through to experienced leaders by considering key concepts of career development, leadership development, and mentoring. You'll also learn how to maintain a qualified talent pipeline through effective succession planning. You'll explore succession planning activities, and learn how to create a succession program and analyze its success after implementation.
Estimated duration: 15 minutes.
Detecting and Dealing with Performance Problems: When valuable top performers choose to terminate their contracts to take up more challenging positions elsewhere, it can be a consequence of poor performance management. Identifying a performance problem early and diagnosing it accurately is key to managing performance effectively. You've got to involve employees in what might be difficult conversations to discover actual root causes and come up with the best possible solutions. In this course, you'll learn how to detect, identify, and question problems in your workplace, determine the scope, frequency, and impact when they occur, and diagnose root causes – both external and internal – to help find the best solution and avoid a contract termination of a valuable employee.
Estimated duration: 30 minutes.
Ensuring Onboarding Success: Talent management means hiring the right person for the job and successfully onboarding the new recruit. A good job description can aid in effective applicant and resumé screening before the interview. An effective onboarding program can increase new employee acclimation and productivity, as well as greatly decreasing employee turnover. Managers are key to ensuring the success of new employee onboarding programs. This course provides managers with an insight into their unique role and outlines the benefits they reap from properly onboarding new hires. It also covers the key elements of an effective onboarding program and explains how onboarding is different from traditional orientation.
Estimated duration: 30 minutes.
Hitting the Recruitment Bull's-eye: One of the most significant challenges facing organizations is hiring qualified employees. The talent acquisition process has changed significantly in recent years due to changes in labor-market conditions, as well as advances in technology. In this course, you’ll learn how to attract the talent needed to meet your organization's needs, and the recruiting techniques to use to make this happen. You’ll learn how to consider the needs of the organization as well as the needs of the potential employees. You'll explore how to appeal to recruits by tapping into what is important to them in a job. The course also prepares you to establish and implement a recruitment and talent management strategy.
Estimated duration: 30 minutes.
Individual Behavior in Organizations: In an ideal world, all the day-to-day HR tasks – such as recruitment, talent management, and succession planning – are defined and aligned with the goals of the organization. This is an aspect of transformational human resources, or transformational HR, that will help optimize your talent pipeline. In this course, you'll learn about variables and characteristics that influence individual behavior, attitude, and perception in the workplace, and how these can affect performance. The course also demonstrates how you can improve the attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of employees at an individual level to align with organizational goals.
Estimated duration: 15 minutes.
Keeping Top Performers Challenged: Top performers expect a lot from themselves. Managing performance in these highly driven people is essential because top performers are such valuable assets to a company. Managers and leaders must keep them engaged and challenged or else lose them to new challenges elsewhere. In this course, you'll learn how to identify your top performers. You'll also learn how to keep engaging and challenging them by providing the right environment, leadership, and communication.
Estimated duration: 15 minutes.
Managing Employee Development: Smart companies have learned that supporting continuous learning and self-development among employees reaps dividends in productivity and employee retention rates. As a manager, you're responsible for developing people, which includes developing talent in your direct reports. In this course, you'll learn about the benefits of developing employees and assessing how their development needs can be addressed through organizational learning. You'll then learn how to prepare for and conduct a development meeting that includes the necessary development plan characteristics and support for your employees.
Estimated duration: 30 minutes.
Planning for Skills Needs and Managing Performance: An effective HR Department develops employees and develops talent to support the organization's key strategies and help them in the fight to remain competitive. Key to achieving this is acquiring talent and managing talent successfully. In this course, you'll learn about the role of HR in identifying the skills needs of your organization and satisfying these needs through recruitment and performance management as your organization requires it. You'll also learn about managing performance successfully within the framework of talent management.
Estimated duration: 30 minutes.