Recent Talks
Human Assets give regular talks at universities and professional bodies on a diverse range of topics within the fields of choosing, developing and engaging talent.
Recent Talks include:
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Talent Development Conference
Topic: How it maps to leadership development and succession planning, and how can a Talent System help?
Charles Woodruffe discussed the latest thinking on Talent Management at the Talent Development Conference on 25th June 2008, focusing on the practialities of attracting and retaining people by meeting their needs and the crucial importance of developing talent. His theme was based around the paradox that in order to keep people you have to enable them to leave.
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Pay and Progression for Graduates Conference
Charles Woodruffe and Wendy Lyons gave a talk on 'Investing in the future or filling immediate slots? Graduate entry schemes in 2008' at the Pay and Progression for Graduates Conference on the 11th June 2008.
Main areas they covered were:
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Indicators of excellence - defining exactly what you want from your graduates
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What do graduates have that's so special for employers?
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Getting the right mix between hiring performance and developing potential
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Making the right choices - identifying and enticing talent through a thorough winning selection process
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Credit crunches - maintain the graduate pipeline or have a recession time-out?
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Getting a marketing mind-set into the HR function
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Winning the talent war by having a talent strategy |
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Talent Management Conference
Charles Woodruffe and Wendy Lyons were the guest speakers at the Talent Management Conference on 11th December 2007. They were giving a talk on Keeping people by meeting their needs: The new inflation.
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Competing for people to compete for customers: A triangle of needs.
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Uncovering individual differences - A Motive Elicitor.
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Commitment: The icing on the cake or a redundant notion?
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Allocating scarce rewards: Separating The Best from the Good Enough. |
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Pay & Progression for
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Pay & Progression for Graduates Conference 2007
Charles Woodruffe and Wendy Lyons were quest speakers at the Pay & Progression for Graduates Conference 2007 on 13th of June. As leading experts on assessment and development centres, they discussed graduate entry schemes and asked whether they were 'Investing in the Future or a Waste of Time?' |
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CIPD, North London Branch - Senior Practitioners' dinner, Harrow
Charles Woodruffe was the guest speaker at the Senior Practitioners' dinner on 28th March 2007 and was speaking on the subject of Talent Management and the 'Talent War'. |
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Various Nationwide Universities
Victoria McFarland and Nadia Nagamootoo have run workshops at various prestigious universities during November and December 2006 in order to present and discuss the techniques used to research and design competency frameworks. They offered a practitioner's perspective on the process of developing competencies and illustrated the course with practical examples.
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Birkbeck, University of London
In his lecture to Occupational Psychology students at the University of London in October 2006, Dr Charles Woodruffe gave a talk on the subject of Talent Management and the 'Talent War'.
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33rd International Congress on Assessment Center Methods, London
Recently, several papers have appeared that refer to the interactionist perspective from personality studies and how this might explain the 'exercise effect'. Briefly put, the argument is that the 'exercise effect' is not so much indicative of a problem with assessment centres as an accurate reflection of how people vary in their performance between exercises. Dr Charles Woodruffe gave a talk at the International Congress on Assessment Centre Methods that examined the lessons from the original interactionist debate and how well they map onto and 'solve' the issue of the exercise effect in assessment centres. |
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Birkbeck, University of London
Charles Woodruffe gave a talk at Birkbeck on the 8th March 2006 on the subject of Assessment Centres.
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Goldsmiths College, University of London
Victoria McFarland and Nadia Nagamootoo ran a workshop at Goldsmiths College (University of London) on the 28th February 2006 to present and discuss the techniques used to research and design competency frameworks. They offered a practitioner's perspective on the process of developing competencies and illustrated the course with practical examples.
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