StrategyDriven Enterprises Launches an Online Talent Management Program Forum

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StrategyDriven Enterprises launched an online talent management program forum; providing leaders access to decades of first-hand experience in programmatically acquiring, developing, and retaining high-quality employees.
 
StrategyDriven Talent Management ForumStrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online Talent Management Forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers programmatically drive the acquisition, development, and retention of high-quality employees.

“When highly skilled and knowledgeable people give the full measure of their creativity, intellect, and effort to achieving the organization’s goals, truly remarkable performance results,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “Thus, talented personnel are the lifeblood of every organization.”

“Implementing StrategyDriven’s recommended talent management practices can help enhance any organization’s ability to attract, develop, and retain top talent,” says Karen Juliano, StrategyDriven’s Editor-in-Chief. “This is achieved through deliberate actions that make employees feel valued and respected, inspired and motivated while at the same time being managed effectively and efficiently.”

Contributed to, by highly experienced business leaders, StrategyDriven’s online Talent Management Forum provides actionable methods and tools executives and managers can use to implement and enhance key components of their talent management program including:

  • Talent Acquisition – identification of near and long-term personnel knowledge, skills, and experiences needed combined with the effective search, vetting, and signing-on of employees whose backgrounds meet these needs
  • Talent Development – enhancement of employee knowledge, skills, and experiences so to prepare a sufficient number of individuals to meet the organization’s near and long-term talent needs as circumstances dictate
  • Talent Retention – creation of a workplace environment that attracts and retains the highly talented individuals needed for the organization’s success while concurrently ensuring the departure of those personnel not contributing sufficient value to the organization

The StrategyDriven Talent Management Forum’s thought leadership documents are being distributed to StrategyDriven’s clients, including some of the world’s most respected companies. These documents are available at: www.StrategyDriven.com/talent-management.

Affordable Business Consulting – Use Your Own Staff

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StrategyDriven’s radically different approach to management consulting allows you to use your own staff, not requiring you to use ours, so your people benefit from the project experience and then keep this knowledge within your organization.

 

Ask yourself, when was the last time you paid your first or second year associates $180,000 to $240,000 per year commensurate with your consultants’ $90 to $120 per hour consulting rate for staff personnel? Ever feel like you’re paying for the on-the-job training of your consultants’ staff?
 
From time-to-time, all organizations encounter a need for specialized knowledge, skills, or resources they don’t maintain on staff. When the need is temporary, the engagement of high-quality consultants is a great way to fill these gaps.

But every dollar spent on consultants should go to bettering your company’s bottom line, not building-up your consultants’ businesses or paying for unnecessary overheads.

When you engage StrategyDriven, you provide the staff; enabling knowledge transfer into your organization and dramatically lowering costs in a way that is unmatched by traditional consulting firms.

Combine this with our “only as much as you need” use of our seasoned business leaders, our vast array of fully developed methods and tools, and our elimination of high cost overheads such as bricks and mortar offices and you get superior advisory services at a dramatically lower cost.

But don’t take my word for it, try our services for yourself. When you signup for StrategyDriven’s Self Guided Insights Library, you’ll gain FREE access to hundreds of our how-to business management and leadership documents spanning topics from strategic planning to day-to-day business execution. Created by respected business leaders from around the world, these documents provide you with the real-world tested, immediately implementable advice you need to take your organization to the next level of performance.

Affordable Business Consulting – Low Overheads

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StrategyDriven’s radically different approach to management consulting eliminates the bricks and mortar consulting firm offices that sit empty most of the time and then passes that cost savings on to our clients.

 

Ask yourself, when was the last time your consultants’ downtown office building bring ground-breaking insight to your business? When was the last time you even visited your consultants’ offices? Don’t they normally come to you?
 
From time-to-time, all organizations encounter a need for specialized knowledge, skills, or resources they don’t maintain on staff. When the need is temporary, the engagement of high-quality consultants is a great way to fill these gaps. But every dollar spent on consultants should go to bettering your company’s bottom line, not building-up your consultants’ businesses or paying for unnecessary overheads.

At StrategyDriven, we’ve streamlined our operations; employing modern communications technologies and eliminating bricks and mortar offices that in-turn reduces our overheads and provides tremendous cost savings to you.

Combine this with our “only as much as you need” use of our seasoned business leaders, our use of your staff, and our vast array of fully developed methods and tools and you get superior advisory services at a dramatically lower cost.

But don’t take my word for it, try our services for yourself. When you signup for StrategyDriven’s Self Guided Insights Library, you’ll gain FREE access to hundreds of our how-to business management and leadership documents spanning topics from strategic planning to day-to-day business execution. Created by respected business leaders from around the world, these documents provide you with the real-world tested, immediately implementable advice you need to take your organization to the next level of performance.

Affordable Business Consulting – Experienced Advisors

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StrategyDriven’s radically different approach to management consulting provides you the access you want – no more and no less – to the business executives and senior managers who have the hard-earned experience needed to get the job done faster, better, and ultimately cheaper.

 

Ever wonder why your consultants’ teams are so large? Or question the value of high-priced ‘partner time’ especially when these individuals are not materially engaged in the consulting process?
 
From time-to-time, all organizations encounter a need for specialized knowledge, skills, or resources they don’t maintain on staff. When the need is temporary, the engagement of high-quality consultants is a great way to fill these gaps. But every dollar spent on consultants should go to bettering your company’s bottom line, not building-up your consultants’ businesses or paying for unnecessary overheads.

StrategyDriven offers you access to seasoned business leaders in the amount that you want, a few hours a month or fill time. You decide.

Combine this with our use of your staff, our vast array of fully developed methods and tools, and our elimination of high cost overheads such as bricks and mortar offices and you get superior advisory services at a dramatically lower cost.

But don’t take my word for it, try our services for yourself. When you signup for StrategyDriven’s Self Guided Insights Library, you’ll gain FREE access to hundreds of our how-to business management and leadership documents spanning topics from strategic planning to day-to-day business execution. Created by respected business leaders from around the world, these documents provide you with the real-world tested, immediately implementable advice you need to take your organization to the next level of performance.

Applications Being Accepted for Intensive Military to Civilian Career Transition Program

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Online applications are being accepted through Feb. 8, 2016 for the seventh cohort of the Leveraging Military Leadership Program.

The program, which is designed to create successful transitions from military to civilian careers, is open to Veterans of any rank who left the service in the last two years or who will transition in the next six months. To date, more than 250 service members from all branches of the military have participated in this pro bono program.

Participants will be guided by a team of global leadership experts from Korn Ferry Hay Group and Harris Corporation, who will lead Veterans through a three-month program composed of on-line, remote, and in-person assessments, coaching, instruction, group exercises and lectures. The in-residence portion of the program takes place from Friday, April 8 through Sunday, April 10 in Herndon, Virginia. Veterans will receive the same research-based leadership development services offered by Hay Group to Boards, CEOs and senior executives at leading global organizations.

Veterans engage in topics such as defining a career vision, mapping out a targeted post-military career strategy, and creating an action plan that includes networking, using social media and refining their engagement and interviewing techniques.

The transition from a military career to a civilian career is difficult and challenging. But it’s not a full switch. While there are drastic differences between military culture and corporate culture, there are many transferrable skills – and more than most Veterans (and hiring managers) initially believe. The fact is that military professionals have built capabilities during their careers in essential and in-demand competencies, such as planning, problem-solving, team building, crisis management, managing diversity and dealing with ambiguity.

Helping Companies Leverage Military Leadership

Companies that make the commitment to concerted Veteran hiring efforts will not be disappointed. Consider the following tips for finding, hiring and keeping qualified Veterans:

  • Look in the right places when sourcing – Employers will need to create a strong employer value proposition, whereby Veterans know their service will be honored and valued. That means having hiring managers trained and dedicated to sourcing Veterans, perhaps creating online talent communities geared specifically to the Veteran audience.
  • Educate managers – Those who manage Veterans should be offered development opportunities to help them understand the unique attributes of Veterans and how to translate their skills into the civilian world.
  • Help Veterans translate their unique skills into civilian attributes – Ask a Veteran what she did while she was in the military, and she may say, “I drove a ship.” That Veteran should be coached to go beyond what they did into why it matters, such as it helped her learn to deal with ambiguity and instill trust in others.
  • Create ongoing development – There is no doubt that the civilian world is different from military service. Help the Veteran adapt through programs that, for example, help him or her “influence without authority” instead of the traditional military hierarchy.

Veterans entering the civilian workforce offer tremendous skills and represent an incredible talent source for employers nationwide. We are proud to host the Leveraging Military Leadership Program, which goes beyond traditional training to enable Veterans to develop their own individual strategies to begin and grow their professional careers.

About the Author

Randy Manner, Korn Ferry Senior Partner and Army Major General, Retired