In the current war for talent, succession planning is your insurance that your top employees don’t become the solution to another organization’s talent shortage.

You’ll learn:

• The 7 key steps to getting started with an effective succession planning strategy;
• How to prevent voluntary terminations and ensure that strategic positions have ample bench strength.

Learn 10 things HR can do to ensure alignment.

How aligned is your organization? Companies that manage goal alignment well boast significant productivity and profitability improvements. And while performance management technology can help provide the tools you need, it can’t do all of the work for you. SumTotal HR expert Richard Oyen takes you through ten steps that can save you time and expense and help you drive better organizational alignment.

You’ll learn:

• The ten most important things to consider before you embark on organizational alignment
• The role HR should play in the process
• How to avoid common pitfalls, such as planning a multi-tiered rollout to help goals work their way down an organization

You already understand that an employee performance management system can help your organization cut costs or improve profits, now, here's your secret weapon for getting others on your side. Learn how to clearly and realistically demonstrate expected Return on Investment (ROI) from reducing turnover, improving compensation alignment, saving time, and more—with numbers and real-life case studies to back you up.

Discover how an Employee Performance Management (EPM) system can help you align organizational goals with employee objectives, provide access to performance information, make better employee-related decisions, improve retention, and much more.

Effective career and succession planning can save businesses tremendous amounts of money. The problem? Convincing management that the need for planning is real, and that expenditures are justified. You need hard numbers if you want to present your case successfully.

Through the use of basic mathematical formulas, this paper will help you hammer out dollar figures and gain new insight into how your organization is dealing with employee turnover and hiring processes. As a result, you’ll be better equipped to construct a business case for career and succession planning—one that executives will both hear and heed.

Employee performance management offers much more than just taking the pain out of a paper process. Organizations that take a unified talent development approach use performance management as a development springboard, ultimately retaining talent, developing leaders, and reducing turnover costs.

Learn how the convergence of learning and performance management can help your organization get the most out of its workforce.

This white paper discusses the forces of change affecting the performance management component of a talent management strategy, the impact these changes will have on organizations, and recommendations to help organizations prepare for these changes.

Download the white paper to find out how to leverage competency models for strategic Talent Development.

You’ll learn:

• How to prioritize and focus your competency management project.
• How to make the leap from core competencies to proficiency level assessments.
• How your competency model drives performance management, career development, and succession planning.

“Ten Best Practices for Successful Competency Management” is written by SumTotal’s own HR pro, Richard Oyen. Richard has spent more than 20 years in Performance Management working with companies like Oracle and Walgreens.

SumTotal recently surveyed a global sample of more than 20,000 HR professionals on these five crucial aspects of EPM, and found a common dilemma — tremendous need for online employee performance management tools, thwarted by a lack of resources.

Analysts caution that not all EPM software investments prove successful. Real return on investment (ROI) follows when your best and poorest performers can be accurately differentiated and given the appropriate developmental opportunities and training, when you can align employee performance goals with company strategy, and when you can use performance data to strategically plan talent resources for the future. For those reasons, a performance management system must meet some key criteria to measurably improve your organization's performance.

Given that by far the largest single budget item for most businesses is directly related to employees, and that employees are the key to business success, you’d expect businesses to spare no expense in the design and implementation of Employee Performance Management systems...

Know the 7 key steps to start an effective career and succession planning in your organization and overcome talent shortage threats. This white paper will discuss factors causing talent pools to dry up, recent survey results that show how people are addressing talent shortages and retention, and succession planning practices that can help your organization overcome talent shortage threats

What exactly are C-level executives looking for from a reinvented, strategic HR department? What can you do to rise to C-level expectations? Find out what the research indicates forward-looking HR departments need to do.