CAHRS Talent Development Working Group Series | Session 3: Knowledge Management

Companies today face unprecedented challenges in developing their talent. New technologies (e.g., generative AI) and work models (e.g., hybrid/remote), among other emerging trends, are quickly changing the capabilities that employees need to be successful and, at the same time, are shortening the half-life of the capabilities they already possess. To address these challenges, companies are reconceptualizing work based on skills rather than jobs. They are revamping their succession planning approaches to identify high potential talent earlier and are striving to build leadership capability among all employees, not just senior executives. And they are investing in knowledge management as a way to capture the tacit knowledge possessed by retiring experts and to overcome the barriers to information sharing created by increasingly distributed work arrangements.

This CAHRS working group series, led by William J. Conaty Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management and CAHRS Academic Director Brad Bell, will examine these emerging trends surrounding talent development, which was again one of the highest priority items on the minds of HR leaders heading into 2024.

In this third session, we will examine how companies approaching knowledge management in an increasingly turbulent and virtual world. We will discuss how companies are facilitating knowledge transfer as a growing number of deep subject matter experts approach retirement. In addition, we will explore strategies for ensuring that employees can share and access critical information in hybrid and remote environments.

Our virtual working groups are kept small (20-25 participants) to allow for rich discussion and best practice sharing. Given the limited size of each session, we ask that you only register for a session if you will be able to attend for the duration. Prior to the session, attendees should give some thought to topic that will be discussed, so they are prepared to share with the group. We also strongly prefer that participants be on camera during the session to allow for more engaging interaction. If for some reason after you sign up for the working group, something comes up last minute, it would be great to get even a last-minute e-mail advising us that you cannot attend as we sometimes have a waiting list.