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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS:
HR Strategies and Best Practices                                 


Attend the premier M&A workshop for HR executives. Get experienced counsel and a wealth of practical insights on integration strategies and best practices from these HR M&A experts.

HR Leadership Before, During and After a Merger or Acquisition: What Separates the Best from the Rest?
Jim Shanley, The Shanley Group and former Leadership Development Executive, Bank of America

Doing It Right at Pitney Bowes
Johnna G. Torsone, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Pitney Bowes

Talent Assessment: Realizing the Full Potential of Mergers and Acquisitions
Gary C. Hourihan, Corporate Executive Vice President, Korn/Ferry International

Beating the M&A Odds - The Critical Role of Leaders
Ronan Knox, Partner, Oliver Wyman

Lessons Learned from the Past Two Decades of Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures at GE
Jeffrey D. Bucklew, Manager, Executive Development, GE

M&A Case Study and Practice Application: From Due Diligence to Post Merger Integration
Jim Shanley
and
Robert Mayer, Vice President of Human Resources Weis Builders


Highlights of this workshop include:
. Understanding the key success factors for successful integration of cultures and employees
. Analyzing important impact areas and roles for HR,especially at the early stages
. Using best practices to select and rapidly assimilate combined company leadership
. Selecting and training integration leaders
. Preparing your employees to deal with the realities of a major M&A change
. Face to face discussions with your session leaders and other human resource executives in some of the world's leading companies
. Use of a case study to apply the workshop concepts and best practices and to stimulate discussion and learning
. Application of learning in an ongoing dialog between you, presenters and peers, led by the workshop facilitators


Your Workshop Facilitators and Coordinators Are:
Jim Shanley, The Shanley Group
Bob Mayer, Weis Builders

January 28-29, 2008
Tampa, FL
Renaissance Tampa Hotel International Plaza

HRPS Members:
  $1,195 per person
Non-members:     $1,690 per person
Note - The non-member fee entitles you to an Individual Membership in HRPS

To register
click here.



HR Metrics: Influencing Business Strategy & Performance


gIn this highly interactive workshop, you will get practical, strategic and tactical frameworks and processes to improve your HR metrics. You will see how leading companies currently use HR metrics and how they consistently improve the value of their measurement investments. Plus, during the workshop, you will develop an individual action plan to begin improving the strategic impact of HR metrics in your organization.

After this workshop, you will be able to:

. Apply a framework to make HR decisions that positively impact business strategy execution and business performance
. Focus business leaders on the critical few HR metrics that predict business performance
. Stop relying on bench mark data that often leads to a focus on cost reduction at the expense of business performance
. Drive business results by leveraging the engagement of critical employees
. Use a practical method for developing HR metrics that generate unique insights into your organization's talent
. Understand how each participant's business "makes money" and how the company increases profitability

Find out how you can:
. Increase HR's influence to meet or exceed that held by the finance and marketing functions
. Demonstrate significant, measurable impact of HR investments on business performance
. Advise senior business leaders on the decisions that will optimize business performance
. Leverage HR investments to drive sustained, profi table growth of the business
. Link HR interventions such as engagement surveys to enhancing profitability
. Develop the ability to effectively communicate "tell stories" through the use of metrics versus the numbers as an end unto themselves
. Show senior leaders new possibilities through the analysis of metrics

Your workshop facilitators and coordinators are:
Leo Flanagan, Jr. Ph.D.
President - Flanagan Consultants, LLC

Dianne O'Connell, Ph.D.
Principal - Dianne O'Connell Consulting

Renee Russell
Executive Director Global Talent Management - Avon Products, Inc


February 26-27, 2008
Washington, DC
The Melrose Hotel



HRPS Members:  $1,195 per person
Non-members:     $1,690 per person
Note - The non-member fee entitles you to an Individual Membership in HRPS

To register click here.


Succession Planning & Leadership Development
A Roadmap for Designing and Managing Value-Added Processes                                


Attend this pragmatic two-day workshop and compare the strategies and practices of your company with those in the comprehensive corporate presentations. learn from the extensive experience of the consultants whose firms have assisted numerous companies in developing and implementing benchmark succession planning processes and leadership development programs.

This highly interactive workshop will enable you to:

. see the business context and value of succession planning and leadership development systems
. gain an understanding of how succession planning and leadership development processes are successfully employed in diverse and high performing corporations
. examine, discuss, and determine how proven tools, techniques, methods, and approaches of other companies can be used in your organization and integrated into other related hr processes
. create and improve effective systems in your own organization
. explore how to gain top management and linesupport for your ideas and plans
. evaluate organizational readiness and develop ways to avoid organizational pitfalls
. resolve critical implementation issues relating to succession planning and leadership development

Key features of this workshop:

. The workshop design is based on an integrated "systems thinking" model and proven approaches used to create and manage effective succession planning and leadership development processes in high performing companies.
. special presentations on the use of leadership competency models and how to develop leadership capabilities through "action learning".
. opportunity to relate your experiences and problems and get valuable counsel and straight answers from the nation's succession planning and leadership development experts in the unique Affinity Tables.


Your Workshop Facilitators and Coordinators Are:
Patrick Pinto
Leo Flanagan Jr.


June 2-3, 2008
San  Francisco, CA
JW Marriott San Francisco

HRPS Members:
  $1,195 per person
Non-members:     $1,690 per person
Note - The non-member fee entitles you to an Individual Membership in HRPS

To register
click here.


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