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Overview

A successful talent mobility and career growth strategy is a source of competitive advantage by ensuring your organization has access to the right people with the right skills who can move between roles as needed. Talent mobility has long been recognized for the benefits of enhancing workforce engagement, attracting, developing, and retaining the next generation of leaders, and reducing recruiting expenses. Today, designing and implementing an effective talent mobility and career growth strategy that aligns with the rapidly evolving needs of the business and the aspirations of employees can be challenging. It takes a concerted and consistent effort to execute this successfully and achieve the desired business outcomes.

Whether your organization is just getting started or has a well-defined talent mobility strategy, this course, Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Organization’s Talent Mobility Strategy, will provide the latest research, insights, and practices to help you address the challenges and opportunities for implementing a career growth strategy that shifts mindsets and delivers value to the business. This course targets skill development in critical thinking, organizational and HR process design, business partnering, and leading change. During the live-virtual program led by Cornell HR faculty, participants will:

  • Understand the business case for supporting a manager-centric approach to internal talent mobility and development 
  • Learn frameworks and insights for developing and implementing an effective internal talent mobility strategy at scale
  • Develop strategies for overcoming resistance to allow employees to move throughout the organization to align the needs of your business with the interests and aspirations of your employees
  • Work collaboratively with other CAHRS partners to share practices and identify actions to address challenges and opportunities to bring back to your organization

Who Should Attend

The program is designed for HR professionals with 5-8 years of experience who advise business leaders on critical workforce issues in talent management/ succession planning, talent acquisition, and learning and development.

Sample titles: HR Business Partners, HR Specialists (e.g., talent management, talent acquisition, learning and development, etc.) HR Managers, HR Senior Managers

Considerations When Nominating a Participant

The ideal participants should:

Be available to attend and actively participate in all live sessions. This is a hands-on learning program that builds from week-to-week, resulting in a team working session during the final session to identify practices for addressing a selected challenge or opportunity.

Be encouraged to bring the program learnings back to the organization. Examples of this may include a post-program follow-up discussion with the nominating manager, lunch and learn or report out with the team, etc.

  • Sessions meet for 90 minutes on Zoom once weekly for 4 weeks
  • Additional readings and activities outside of sessions may be assigned
  • Total of ~ 8 hours of time over 4 weeks / ~ 2 hours commitment per week

Agenda

Oct 16 - Nov 6, 2024

Session 1

Oct 16: 10:00 - 11:30 AM EST

  • Program overview and participant introductions
  • Current trends in talent mobility 
  • The business case for talent mobility and internal career development
  • The building blocks of an effective internal talent market

Session 2

Oct 23: 10:00 - 11:30 AM EST

  • Positioning individual managers as talent champions
  • Changing mindsets around talent mobility and internal career development
  • A playbook for eliminating talent hoarding

Session 3

Oct 30: 10:00 - 11:30 AM EST

  • Managing employee expectations (e.g., demographics, shifting business needs and job responsibilities, etc.)
  • Handling (and reframing) internal rejections
  • The importance of internal onboarding

Session 4

Nov 6: 10:00 - 11:30 AM EST

  • Working sessions and discussion on problem solving selected organizational challenges/ opportunities (e.g., talent hoarding, etc.)
  • Action planning in your organization
  • Reflection and Key Takeaways

Instructor

Certification

Recognition of Achievement

Certificate of Completion from the Center for Advanced HR Studies at the Cornell ILR School

Earn Continuing Education Credits

This program qualifies for Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) credits or Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) credits

Questions?

Karen Siewert: kts47@cornell.edu

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