How do you align your HR strategy with your business strategy? Why should you connect your talent brand to the customer brand? How can you engage and attract great talent? These are key challenges and opportunities faced by HR and business leaders alike. Which is why Managing Talent for Strategic Advantage brings the two together—to explore the complexities and interdependencies of talent and strategy to help you build competitive advantage and drive success.
Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources; Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences; Academic Director, Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate; Director of the Managing Talent for Strategic Advantage Executive Program; Codirector of the Customer-Focused Innovation Executive Program
Hayagreeva Rao has published widely in the fields of management and sociology and studies the social and cultural causes of organizational change. In his research, he studies three sub-processes of organizational change: a) creation of new social structures, b) the transformation of existing social structures, and c) the dissolution of existing social structures. His recent work investigates the role of social movements as motors of organizational change in professional and organizational fields.
General Atlantic Professor of Marketing
Paul E. Holden Professor of Organizational Behavior; Codirector of the Executive Leadership Development: Analysis to Action Program
James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting; Professor of law (by courtesy), Stanford Law School; Senior Faculty of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford; Director of the Director's Consortium Executive Program
Adams Distinguished Professor of Management; Director of the Managing Teams for Innovation and Success Executive Program; Director of the Influence and Negotiation Strategies Executive Program; Codirector of the Executive Program for Women Leaders
Frank E. Buck Professor of Management; Director of the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Executive Program
Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior
Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior; Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences; Hank McKinnell-Pfizer Inc. Faculty Fellow for 2014-2015
Professor of Organizational Behavior (by courtesy); Professor of Management Science and Engineering, School of Engineering; Codirector of the Customer-Focused Innovation Executive Program
Managing Talent for Strategic Advantage will help you:
BUILDING POLITICAL SKILLS
Career derailments of otherwise high-potential individuals occur with unacceptable frequency. Research shows that the inability to successfully manage organizational dynamics is often the cause. Dealing with the complex interdependencies inside the workplace and its related relationship issues poses more of a challenge. This set of sessions will help you to develop tools to navigate organizational dynamics that are critical for developing and retaining talent. You will also learn to build and strengthen your own competency in managing organizational politics.
CONNECTING THE TALENT BRAND TO THE CUSTOMER BRAND
Firms compete in markets for customers…and talent. In both cases, they have a brand. Unfortunately, the connection between the customer brand and talent brand is often missing in organizations. Using a real-world business case as a springboard, you'll evaluate if the company organized their talent to execute on a customer value proposition.
ENGAGING YOUR AUDIENCE: THE POWER OF STORY TO FUEL GROWTH
"Tell me the facts and I'll learn. Tell me the truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever." The skill to create and tell compelling stories becomes important for leaders, who often need to act as an editor, shaping the stories told by employees and customers to align with a shared vision. In this session, we will break down the basic elements of storytelling, apply them to your company, and give you the opportunity to practice telling a story about your organization, your product, or yourself.
WHAT SHAPES OUR DECISIONS
How do people judge value? How do employees in your company make decisions? How do your intuitions help and hurt your judgments? During this session you will learn to:
Managing Talent for Strategic Advantage is ideal for HR and business leaders who want to strategically address the talent issues in their organization. It's specifically designed for:
