The Best of Talent Management & Succession Planning Conference

February 18-20, 2009
Scottsdale, Arizona

The Best of Talent Management and Succession Planning Conference provides a forum for attendees to learn from expert practitioners in both public and private environments, featuring the nation's leading researcher Dr. William Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR.

Featuring experienced practitioners known for creating successful programs in both Government and Private Industry, The Best of Talent Management and Succession Planning Conference features concurrent sessions for both Government and Industry practitioners. If you are a senior human resources practitioner responsible for developing a succession planning and talent management program, this conference is one you will not want to miss. Take advantage of our early bird registration discounts and save on registration fees.

By attending this conference you will learn how to:

Assess your organization's readiness for a Talent Management and Succession Planning initiative.
Build a Business Case and Return On Investment methodology that clarifies organizational value, and business and financial objectives.
Design a sustainable program including key components appropriate to your business environment.
Develop specific criteria for identifying and evaluating high-potential talent within your organization.
Identify critical competencies for leadership including functional skills, knowledge, and traits that are matched to your business's long term strategic direction and objectives.
Select software tools that will monitor high-potential gaps, development, progress, and readiness to fill targeted positions.

Tomorrow's successful organizations will share one thing in common: a systematic strategy for acquiring and developing critical talent at all levels. Organizations are realizing the effects of high numbers of key employee retirements. Public and private organizations share the concern for providing talented replacements at every level. Every organization shares the need to identify in advance key position vacancies, when those vacancies will occur, and what skills, knowledge, and behaviors are required in each role.

The strategic value, of course, is demonstrated when the vacancy occurs unexpectedly. Current stories of surprises abound:

Leaders who retire with no identified or prepared replacement
Officers lost to illness or accidents
High-performers at all levels of the organization who will leave and take years of experience and job knowledge with them

Today, organizations in both the private and public sectors are preparing for tomorrow by creating programs that identify and develop talent at all levels - talented individuals within their organization who are ready to assume any position they are called upon to fill.

This program has been approved for 11.25 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

Conference Brochure (.PDF 1.25 MB)