This document provides information about the Talent Management Solutions 2010 conference, including the schedule, speakers, and topics. The two-day conference will be held on April 14-15, 2010 in Arlington, VA and will focus on strategies for recruiting, engaging, and retaining employees. Day one will cover topics such as talent management strategies, workforce planning, employee branding, and using social media for engagement. Day two will discuss communication strategies, employee retention, leadership development, and succession planning. The document provides details on registration, hotel accommodations, speakers, and session content to help attendees understand how the conference will address current challenges in talent management.

1. Talent Management
Solutions 2010
Create Comprehensive Strategies for Recruiting, April 14-15, 2010
Engaging and Retaining a Thriving Workforce Arlington, VA
You Will Learn to: Capture &
Understand the Changing Landscape of Talent Management Retain Highly
Discover How Leading Visionaries are Taking Talent Practices to the Next Level
Qualified
Create an Effective Onboarding Process
Engage New Employees with an Effective Onboarding Program that Meets Talent via
and Exceeds Expectations
Innovative
Usher in Social Media to Connect Your Workforce
Utilize Latest Technology to Spearhead Learning, Dialogue and Engagement
Engagement
Revitalize Employee Retention in Times of Change
Techniques
Reach Out to Employees by Creating a New and Direct Communication Strategy
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2. Day 1 Talent Management Solutions 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
8:30 10:00
Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast Break and Refreshments
9:00 10:15
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Tactical Talent Management Ensure your Talent Management System is Fully
Strategies to Overcome Recessionary Challenges Aligned with the Objectives of Your Organization
The arena of Talent Management is a changing • Ensure that leadership across the board is in
landscape given current global market conditions. sync with both long-term and short-term goals
Leaders across the country are being asked to take • Learn to make adjustments to your talent
on larger and more demanding roles within their management system in order to stay
organizations and a one disciplined approach is no competitive in the changing market
longer acceptable. What employees have requested
and expected in the past is quite different compared • Remain up-to-date with what changes your
to current demands. To leverage the talent pool and employees are expecting to ensure a strong
to create a collaborative environment, great leaders talent management approach is being executed
must understand how to find the perfect fit for each
of their employees. This keynote will identify key 11:15
trends and techniques that have emerged in today’s Workforce Planning: Analyze your Pipeline at the
talent management industry. Front, Middle and Executive levels
• Learn how to best identify the leadership gaps
• Discover what multi-disciplinary approaches have within your talent pool
intersected with traditional talent management roles
• Identify employees that are ready and
• Identify what the 21st century employee is motivated to move up in the organization
expecting in terms of professional challenges
and growth opportunities • Understand how well your employees
comprehend short and long terms goals
• Capture successful strategies that are driving
many organizations to adapt and modify their MICHEL A. BUFFET, PHD
engagement and retention practices Managing Partner, Fisher Rock Consulting
MARC EFFRON
Founder, New Talent Management Network 12:15
Author, One Page Talent Management Lunch Break
“This is the best conference that I have ever attended! There
were not only best practices exhibited but I was given the tools
to implement them within my own organization.”
– Mary Bowman
SVP Compensation & HRIM, Aurora Loan Services
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3. Day 1
1:15 Top 5 Reasons
Revitalize your Brand to Attract and Retain the Right Talent
• Learn how to quantify the ROI on your branding initiatives to Attend:
• Distinguish winning methods to acquire management
buy-in to launch innovative brand development Examine
how the recessionary
• Understand how your organizational brand effects
climate has affected your
recruitment and retention workforce
KORTNEY KUTSOP
Employer Branding Specialist, UNIVERSUM Find
the critical retention
2:15 issues within your
Break and Refreshments
organization
2:30 Empower
Effectively Meet and Engage New Employee your employees by
Expectations with Innovative Onboarding Techniques keeping them ahead of
the learning curve
• Determine which onboarding methods provide
the greatest value to employees
• Promote and encourage a strong community Deliver
the exciting world of
network amongst your workers
interactive social media
• Redefine leadership and mentoring programs that to your workforce
reach across generational and cultural divides
KAREN BRADBURY Enable
AVP- Talent Management Strategies at Unum your high performers to
Unum Named as “Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles” progress efficiently and
rapidly by setting clear
expectations
3:30
Understand How Social Networking Can Foster
Collaboration and Engagement
• Learn which social media outlets have been most
successful in strengthening peer to peer communication
• Utilize social media to drive employee engagement
by creating a network and collaborative groups
• Use social media tools to communicate and
exchange ideas of interest
4:30
Day One Adjourns
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4. Day 2 Talent Management Solutions 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
8:30 10:00
Conference Registration and Continental Breakfast Break and Refreshments
9:00 10:15
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Use Communication and Will They Stay: Retain Your Staff During the
Transparency to Build Trust with Your Employees Economic Turnaround
Presenting a strong, focused and positive message • Discover what benefits your employees value
to your workforce has always been an essential most on both a financial and non-financial level
management tool. However, in such fast changing • Optimize non-traditional work environments
times, new approaches between employee-employer to better improve employee performance and
communications are needed. Many organizations overall commitment
have been hit with layoffs, re-structuring and budget
cuts. In order to maximize employee productivity, • Learn how to place a dollar value on flexible
effective communication strategies must be benefits that contribute to a healthy work/life
executed, for an uninformed employee will either balance for your employee
become disengaged because they do not know what
is expected from them or they simply feel left out 11:15
of the bigger picture. Transparency, a vision for the Leadership Development: Create Well
future and optimism are key ingredients that must be Defined Career Paths and Opportunities
included in a strong communications plan. Based on Performance
• Outline what performance competencies
• Harness successful case studies in which best compliment your company’s business goals
companies have reworked their communication
plan to better relate to their workers • Implement review processes that are easy to
follow and monitor
• Determine what vehicles of communication are
best in addressing times of change: Town hall • Educate your employees to recognize the
meetings, intranet or small group meetings requirements necessary for career advancement
within the business
• Learn to erase doubt among your employees
by presenting a clear picture so they CALI WILLIAMS YOST
understand how certain changes will affect CEO, Work+Life Fit, Inc.
their responsibilities Author, Work+Life: Finding the Fit That’s Right for You
Who Should Attend?
VPs, Directors and Managers of:
• Talent Management • Organizational Development &
• Human Resources Career Administration
• Workforce Planning • Onboarding & New Employee Orientation
• Leadership & Training • Marketing & Public Relations
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5. Day 2
12:15 In-House Training:
Lunch Break One of the more popular vehicles for accessing the Institute’s
educational offerings is the delivery of on-site trainings and
management facilitations. Bringing a training or facilitation
1:15 in-house gives you the opportunity to customize a program
POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: Succession
that addresses your exact challenges and provides a more
Planning: Learn How to Start a Strong Employee personal learning experience, while virtually eliminating travel
and Leadership Pipeline at All Levels expenses. Whether you require training for a small group or
Creating a well defined and executable succession for an organizational-wide initiative, the advanced learning
methods employed by the Institute will create an intimate
plan is an absolute necessity given the various
training atmosphere that maximizes knowledge transfer to
transitions that many companies are undergoing in
enhance the talent within your organization.
the present economy. Before leaders can begin to
tackle such a project, it is helpful to ascertain what
techniques have worked best for leading institutions in
Customization:
the nation. Participants will gain more understanding We realize that not all obstacles can be overcome by applying
an “off-the-shelf” solution. While many training providers
on how to secure approval for succession planning
will offer you some variation of their standard training, the
objectives. They will also learn how to implement
Institute’s subject matter experts will work with you and your
change in a well thought out and executable fashion. team to examine your programs and determine your exact
• Become skilled at building a participatory areas of need. The identification of real life examples will create
environment amongst your workforce in order to a learning atmosphere that resonates with participants while
at the same time providing immediate return on your training
gain buy in and support from upper management
investment. Using interactive exercises that employ actual
• Determine how to best measure the results of projects or scenarios from your organization, instructors
your succession planning strategies can address specific challenges and align the curriculum of
each session to your objectives. While the majority of on-
• Discover how to empower leaders not only at the
site trainings are focused on smaller groups, the Institute
top but also within all levels of your organization also has the ability to accommodate organization-wide
training initiatives. Utilizing multiple instructors, the Institute
DORIS SIMS, President, Succession Builders, LLC
has the capacity to deliver courses to groups of up to 300
Former Talent Management Director, CVS/Caremark participants per day.
Author, The 30-Minute Guide to Talent & Succession Management
4:30 Areas of Expertise:
Conference Adjourns On-site delivery of single courses, certification programs and entire
packages of specialized courses are available in the following areas:
• Strategic Planning • Contracting
• Performance Measurement • Performance Reporting
“Very effective & good information • Project Management • Program Evaluation
shared. Great ideas & examples, • Lean Six Sigma • Administrative Management
• Workforce Management • Change Management
tools to be used.” • Budgeting and Forecasting • Balanced Scorecard
For more information about in-house training and certification
– Luis Fernandez options, please contact Blake Zach at 202-739-9548
Human Resources Manager, Reser’s Fine Foods or email him at Blake.Zach@ASMIweb.com
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6. Talent Management Solutions 2010
Logistics & Tuition
Venue and Hotel: Exhibiting & Sponsorship:
Talent Management Solutions will be held at The To learn more about exhibiting and sponsorships
Performance Institute Conference Center in Arlington, VA, at Talent Management Solutions please contact
just one block east of the Courthouse Metro stop on the Meredith Mason at 202-739-9707 or email her at
Orange Line. A public parking garage is located just inside Meredith.Mason@ASMIweb.com
of the building for $10/day.
Quality Assurance:
The Performance Institute Conference Center
ASMI strives to provide you with the most productive and effective
1515 N. Courthouse Rd., Suite 600 educational experience possible. If after completing the course
Arlington, VA 22201 you feel there is some way we can improve, please write your
877-992-9522 comments on the evaluation form provided upon your arrival.
Should you feel dissatisfied with your learning experience and wish
to request a credit or refund, please submit it in writing no later
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the than 10 business days after the end of the training to:
Arlington Rosslyn Courtyard by Marriott at the prevailing rate
ASMI Corporate Headquarters:
of $209 until March 1, 2010. Please call the hotel directly
805 15th Street, NW
and reference code “Talent Management Solutions” when 3rd Floor
making reservations to get the discounted rate. The hotel Washington, DC 20005
is conveniently located three blocks from the Rosslyn Metro
We will evaluate individual complaints in a context of collective
station. Please ask the hotel about a complimentary shuttle comments from the event.
that is also available for your convenience.
Note: A $399 service fee will be charged on cancellations received
Arlington Rosslyn Courtyard by Marriott less than four weeks from the date of the event. A credit memo
1533 Clarendon Blvd. will also be sent reflective of that amount, which can be used for
a future conference. If you do not cancel your registration before
Arlington, VA 22209 the day of the event, you will be charged for the full conference
Phone: 703-528-2222 / 1-800-321-2211 amount. As speakers are confirmed six months before the event,
www.courtyardarlingtonrosslyn.com some speaker changes or topic changes may occur in the program.
ASMI is not responsible for speaker changes, but will work to ensure
a comparable speaker is located to participate in the program. If for
any reason ASMI decides to cancel this conference, ASMI accepts
Tuition & Group Discounts: no responsibility for covering airfare, hotel or other costs incurred
by registrants, including delegates, sponsors and guests.
The tuition rate for attending Talent Management
Solutions is as follows: Note: Payment must be secured prior to the conference. If
payment is not received by the conference start date, a method of
payment must be presented at the time of registration in order to
Offerings Early Bird Regular Rate
guarantee your participation at the event.
Conference $999* $1099
Workshop $399 $399 Discounts:
• All ‘Early Bird’ Discounts must require payment at time of
* For the Early Bird rate, register before: March 14, 2010. registration and before the cut-off date in order to receive any
discount.
For more information on group discounts for • Any discounts offered whether by The Performance Institute
(including team discounts) must also require payment at the time
Talent Management Solutions contact:
of registration.
Matt Hartzog at 404-262-5548 or email him at •All discount offers cannot be combined with any other offer.
Matt.Hartzog@ASMIweb.com •Discounts cannot be applied retroactively.
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8. Talent Management Solutions 2010
About ASMI
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