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TALENT MANAGEMENT AND CAREER DAY
Technology professionals paved the way for transformation of corporate culture – from casual Fridays to stock-based compensation programs. They are both agents of change and victims of their own success: flatter organizations, but work that lives with you 24/7 and a constant need for new competencies. This day-long program is split into three streams; the first two of which focus on the strategies and programs that organizations should implement to successfully attract, manage, and retain the highly-creative and mobile technology workforce. The third stream focuses on individual technology professionals—helping you identify how to better market yourself to prospective employers and how to ensure you have what it takes to further your career.
| Wednesday,
September 24, 2008 |
| Keynote: |
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| 8:30 – 10:00 am |
Is There Hope Beyond Dilbert? Results of Survey, ‘Assessment of the Work
Environment for Technology Professionals’ |
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| 12:30 – 2:00 pm |
Preparing for the Future Workforce |
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| Breakout Sessions: |
| 10:15 – 11:15 am |
- Recruiting Top Talent Using Multiple Sources
- Personal Branding for Job Search and Career Success: Maximizing Your Most Important Asset – You!
- Mass Career Customization: From Corporate Ladder to Corporate Lattice |
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| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
- Discovering HR’s Strategic Value
- Battle of the Generations: How to Successfully Communicate with all Generations
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Winning the Battle for Talent |
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| 2:15
– 3:15 pm |
- Knowledge Management and Transfer
- Balancing Work and Life in the New Economy. High-Tech Work and Work/Life conflict
- Corporate Social Networking: Powerful New Tools for Talent, Knowledge, and Relationship Management |
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| 3:30 – 4:30 pm |
- HR Strategy to Bridge the Leadership Gap
- Networking to Netgiving … Make the Connection
- Beyond Succession Planning: Ensuring Organization Sustainability |
Is There Hope Beyond Dilbert?
Results of Survey, ‘Assessment of the Work Environment
for Technology Professionals’
Mark Smith
Partner,
KPMG Advisory Services |
Jacqueline Young
Senior Business Systems Analyst,
Information Technology,
McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited |
Caren DesBrisay
Vice President, Human Resources
Intelliware Development Inc. |
John Hardisty
Professor, Faculty of Business
Sheridan College |
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
8:30 – 10:00 am, Room 718B
Join this panel discussion as Mark Smith provides an overview of recent survey findings, based on a questionnaire sent to both human resource professionals and technology professionals to better understand how each views the employment environment today. “Assessment of the Work Environment for Technology Professionals” was conducted between August 1 – 15, 2008 by KPMG LLP and ROSS (Recruitment Solutions) on behalf of the TorontoTechWeek Association. Sponsored by Canadian HR Reporter.
Mark Smith will be joined by leading HR professionals and technology professionals to explore and debate the findings, and provide real-life meaning and context to the data. |
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Recruiting Top Talent Using Multiple Sources
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
10:15 – 11:15 am, Room 717A
The difficulties of recruiting top talent are consistently ranked as one of the most important factors affecting corporate growth and profits by senior management teams. And HR executives and specialists are relied upon to fix these. Simply placing ads and expecting the top talent to find you just doesn't work any more. Even during periods of slow economic growth, companies need to be ambitious and get creative to acquire top talent. Senior management and HR executives are aware of the impact the retiring boomer generation will have on the workforce, but knowing how to combat this ticking recruitment time bomb is essential. This panel of executives will discuss, debate, and inform HR and senior management about the various methods of recruiting top talent. Employing the best practices in multiple sourcing and recruitment strategies is required to maintain and increase competitive advantage and win the war for top talent. |
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Personal Branding for Job Search & Career Success: Maximizing your Most Important Asset – You!
Paul Copcutt
Personal Brand Strategist, Square Peg Solution
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
10:15 – 11:15 am, Room 717B
How do you stand out in a world where many people have similar credentials and experience?
The world of work is changing as fast as the technology driving it and personal branding allows us to differentiate ourselves by aligning who we are with what we do, working on projects and seeking out opportunities that are more in line with the direction we want to go in.
In this fast paced session you will come to understand the importance of branding one self as part of your professional offering by using a three step process and determine the actions you can take to increase your visibility and credibility either internally or externally. |
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Mass Career Customization: From Corporate Ladder to Corporate Lattice
Tracey Wallace
Senior Manager, Deloitte, Human Capital
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
10:15 – 11:15 am, Room 718A
The workforce has changed, the workplace has not. Today, a career is no longer a straight climb up the corporate ladder, but rather an undulating journey of climbs and lateral moves. This comes from a seismic shift within the global pool of talent, based on demographic changes and new expectations within the emerging generations.
What can leaders do? Organizations must change the way they think about careers in order to find and retain talent. A new concept, Mass Career Customization (MCC), provides a fresh perspective within talent management practices. MCC theory goes way beyond flexible work arrangements and provides people with ongoing opportunities to meet all of their needs, depending on where they are in their career “lifecycle.” When integrated with other talent management programs, MCC works to the benefit of both the organization and its employees, as it increases transparency and trust among the workforce, while building a “best employer” brand. |
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Discovering HR's Strategic Value
Dr. David Weiss
President & CEO, Weiss International Limited
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Room 717A
HR professionals in subsidiaries of global technology companies are often challenged to discover how to add strategic value to their local businesses in a globally constrained environment. This presentation will explore the role of the local HR function and identify how it has a strategic role to be accountable for the return on investment of essential business assets – people and organizational process outcomes. It positions the Human Resources function as a key business partner in helping the local business leaders achieve their strategic goals and to help their organizations thrive.
Some of the specific topics that will be explored are:
- HR’s role in global technology companies that are globally efficient and locally responsive
- The challenge for HR to discover a focused strategic value proposition for the business
- The implications for HR professionals to be business partners and/also service providers
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Battle of the Generations: How to Successfully Communicate with all Generations
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Room 717B
Do you have trouble understanding the different generations and why they communicate as they do? Is the younger generation merely confident or do they have a mentality of self-entitlement? Is the older generation inspirational or out of touch? The ability to communicate with people of all generations is key to career and future success.
The battle of the generations and how each one expects to be treated has entered into corporations across Canada and impacts managers and employees alike. Join Sandra Boyd and Kathryn Lockhart in a lively debate over the differences and similarities in how the different generations communicate with each other.
Some of the specific topics that will be explored are:
- Gain unique insights into how each generation actually looks at the same thing through different lenses
- Understand the generational values and how they affect communications
- Discover that all generations want similar things from both their employers and other employees but communicate the information differently
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Winning the Battle for Talent
Malia Herold
PMP, Vice-President, Production
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Room 718A
Sharing stories about how ThinData, one of Canada’s leading permission-based e-mail marketers, has created a work culture that successfully attracts and retains technology talent, Malia Herald will describe specific initiatives taken during the stages of pre-screening, hiring, and orientation as well as on-going programs that resonate with tech workers. For each, she will discuss the original reasoning, measures of success, opportunities for improvement, and key lessons learned.
Human Resource professionals: learn from practical suggestions on how to tap into the passion and creativity of employees and reduce employee turnover.
Technology Talent: learn about some of the key culture elements you should be discussing with prospective employers to ensure the right environment – the right fit for you! |
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 Preparing For the Future Workforce
Sharif Khan
Vice President, Human Resources, Microsoft Canada
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
12:30 – 2:00 pm, Room 718B
Recent studies indicate Canada is undergoing a dramatic shift towards an older workforce. At the same time, the number of graduates with computer science, math and engineering degrees is falling. It is projected that more than 90,000 jobs in the IT industry will need to be filled in the next three to five years. Sharif Khan will speak about how companies can deal with the projected talent shortage, how to remain competitive in the new global economy, and the importance of creating diverse and flexible workplaces. Sharif will draw upon his experience working for Microsoft on three continents. |
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Knowledge Management and Transfer
Stephen Pollack
CEO and Chief Strategist, PlateSpin ULC
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
2:15 – 3:15 pm, Room 717A
How does knowledge and skills management transfer within organizations? What happens if natural inhibitors prevent sharing? How companies store, manage, plan and transfer knowledge reflects on corporate learning culture and at the end of the day impacts business effectiveness and bottom line. This presentation will draw on some personal experiences with recent ventures and how they have affected overall success. The session will be interactive as well to encourage a sharing of experiences overall. |
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Balancing Work and Life in the New Economy: High-Tech Work and Work/Life Conflict
Sam Ladner
Lecturer, McMaster University
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
2:15 – 3:15 pm, Room 717B
This presentation will summarize findings of a research study of time and time-use among high-technology workers.
Human Resource Professionals: Learn about the patterns of time use, how time affects managing and recruiting high-value employees, how mobile technology affects work/life balance, and the benefits of potential firm-level policies for ensuring a healthy divide between work and home.
Technology Talent: Learn how to manage your own mobile technology, what the signs of over-work are, and how to combat “face time.”
This presentation will draw heavily from a soon-to-be published, peer-reviewed article in the Canadian Journal of Communication. |
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Corporate Social Networking: Powerful New Tools for Talent, Knowledge and Relationship Management
David Vanheukelom
Vice President of Product Development, IGLOO Software
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
2:15 – 3:15 pm, Room 718A
The greatest irony arising from the rapid adoption of social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube is that we often have better collaborative software tools at home than we do at work. Organizations of various sizes are increasingly embracing online tools popularized in the consumer space, including blogs and wikis, and enabling employees to integrate them into their daily workflow.
HR professionals will play a critical future role by understanding and helping their organizations harness the potential of these powerful new social platforms.
Social networks can dramatically help companies discover and utilize the untapped talent that lies within an organization – talent that is often buried under layers of corporate bureaucracy. They can also play a role in preventing knowledge from “walking out the door” by reducing employee turnover, facilitating communication of rewards and recognition, and the sharing of knowledge.
Key learnings:
- Overview of what social networking is and how it applies to our work world
- Key benefits of social networks – case studies from successful companies
- Overview of the role of HR and communications professional in managing the successful implementation of these networks
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HR Strategy to Bridge the Leadership Gap
Dr. David Weiss
President & CEO, Weiss International Limited
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
3:30 – 4:30 pm, Room 717A
Many executive leaders have expressed concern with the apparent leadership talent gaps that exist in their organizations. They also are concerned that current leadership approaches focus almost entirely on developing common personal attributes at the expense of other important business facets of leadership. Consequently, many HR professionals have been challenged to drive business results through the creation of enhanced leadership capacity.
How real and how serious is the threat of a leadership gap? Dr. David Weiss will share his insights and best practice research, which appears in his new co-authored book, entitled “Leadership Solutions” (Jossey-Bass, 2007). Many executives and HR professionals are using this approach as their platform to address the leadership talent gap and for leadership and executive development.
This dynamic session will focus on the following:
- The research findings on the severity of the leadership talent gap
- The three key insights about what needs to be done to bridge the leadership gap
- The strategic role of HR professionals to help fill the leadership talent gap
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Networking to Netgiving … Make the Connection
Tim Cork
President, NEXCareer
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
3:30 – 4:30 pm, Room 717B
Are you looking for a fresh, innovative spin on the traditional concept of networking? Would you like to learn the true secret behind building powerful professional relationships? Discover the straight “A”s of networking: attitude, aptitude, and action. Unleash new possibilities for managing your career and achieving success in life. In this compelling presentation, the best selling-author of Tapping the Iceberg will show you how to identify, build, and leverage a professional network through the power of giving.
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Beyond Succession Planning: Ensuring Organization Sustainability
Clinton Wingrove
CEO and Principal Consultant, Pilat (North America) Inc,
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
3:30 – 4:30 pm, Room 718A
Is leadership baulking at yet another HR Program or been scared away by horror stories of expensive and failed Succession Planning projects? Need some ideas of how to ensure organization sustainability? In this fast paced session we will explore:
- What is “Succession Planning”
- Why Does It Matter and To Whom?
- The Components Of An Effective “Succession Planning” Process
- How to Implement a New Process …. and Get it Working!
- Challenges, Stumbling Blocks And Ways Round Them
- Cutting Edge Ideas
- The Role Of Technology
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