Human Resources and Talent Management Discussion

Human Resources and Talent Management

The Conference Board's expertise in talent management, demographics, and metrics, is striking a chord with executives struggling to align growth with an increasingly mobile and global labor market.

Evidence-Based HR Serves as the next generation in Human Capital Analytics, developed because HR leaders are already discovering that it is more and more difficult to depend on the traditional intuitive arguments for making your business case.	Compensation and Benefits Besides recruitment, HR professionals, line managers and organizational development (OD) professionals are using compensation and benefits for retention and workforce planning.
Diversity and Inclusion Diversity executives have to build their staffs while maintaining a sense of cohesion and inclusion in their companies.	Leadership Development Many senior-level executives identify Leadership Experience programs as the next generation of professional development.
Mature Workforce Rising retirements and a shrinking supply of younger workers are transforming the workplace. The Conference Board's Mature Workforce Initiative is committed to helping companies adjust to this demographic shift.	Strategic Workforce Planning Regardless of the approach, practitioners are finding the big challenges are in establishing accurate, consistent data company-wide, developing the right skill set within HR, and demonstrating to business leaders what strategic workforce planning can do.
Talent Management Companies are striving to recruit, retain and motivate their most valuable employees through a variety of working arrangements. But existing methods provide only part of the answer.	Workforce Readiness For the business community to help effectively advance solutions to address the skills gap and the related workforce readiness issue, we will have to challenge conventional thinking about what, where, when and how young people learn.

Latest News

U.S. Labor Market Faces Bumpy Road from Recession to Recovery
Discouraged workers' journeys in and out of the workforce add complexity.

Employers are Using Strategic Workforce Planning To Help Manage HR Issues as the Economy Recovers
Employers will shift their focus from cutting labor costs back to preserving talent and investing in key segments of their workforce according to a new report by The Conference Board.

Events/Forums

Conferences

Talent Management Strategies Conference
Leveraging Your Talent to Drive Business Outcomes

Leadership Development Conference
Developing Agile, Resilient Leaders for a VUCA World

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Councils

Council for Division Leaders — Human Resources
Convenes the head HR executives of major subsidiaries and divisions of companies across a variety of industries.

Council for Business Development and Integration Executives
The council is designed to help senior executives involved in mergers and acquisitions share best practices to help their companies’ M&A activities fuel top and bottom line growth.

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Research Working Group

Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations
This working group will focus on the challenges of planning, managing, and shaping a global workforce.

Defining New Performance HR Targets: Evidence-Based HR
Members will identify the operational and financial key performance indicators that are most relevant to the causal relationship between human capital strategies and business performance.

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Webcasts

Business Ethics

Webcast

Conference KeyNotes: Senior HR Executive
Driving HR Business Partnerships

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Publications

Executive Action Reports
Labor Market Transitions: from Recession to Recovery This report explores the factors in a recovery that drive the employment level and the unemployment rate. It offers an analysis of where the U.S. labor market stands and where it may be headed.		Clearing Paths for Critical Foreign Talent to Work in the United States The future growth of many smaller businesses may depend upon recruiting highly skilled foreign workers for key jobs. That means becoming better acquainted with the complexities of the immigration code.
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Research Reports
U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2010—Winter Update Revised projections for U.S. Salary increase budgets in 2010 have dipped below 3 percent for the first time in more than two decades, barely staying ahead of The Conference Board’s forecasted inflation rate.		Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations This report describes how SWP adds value by helping global companies make better business decisions. It details what it takes for companies to advance from a fledgling effort to a more robust version of SWP.
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