**2014 SHRM Annual Conference Talent Management Sessions**

28 Days and Done: Creating an Inclusive Orientation Experience

Workplace Application: Using a case study approach, learn the benefits of, and process for, transforming your orientation into an inclusive design.

A Real Time; Electronic Test of Your Implicit Biases and How to Reduce Them in Your Workplace

Workplace Application: Learn how to evaluate your own implicit biases anonymously and instantaneously, and how to recognize and reduce implicit biases in your workplace.

Assessing Work-Life Styles and Mapping Flexibility Cultures to Improve Leadership Talent

Workplace Application: Learn how to apply a model and assessment to help talent understand different work-life engagement styles and effectively manage work environments.

Building a High Performing Team

Workplace Application: Learn best practices and underlying principals for building both and improving a high-performing team.

Creating Change and Inspiring Innovation in Your Recruitment Strategy

Workplace Application: Learn how you can create change, drive innovation and evolve your recruitment strategy.

Denver Public Schools Goes Paperless: Reforming HR Process & Initiating Self-Service with Technology

Workplace Application: Learn strategies to use technology to reform, streamline, and automate established HR processes.

Different is Good: Create an Inclusive Culture by Engaging a Workforce with Diverse Abilities

Workplace Application: Learn how to create a culture of inclusion that goes beyond a policy or initiative, but embraces each individual and engages them to reach their full potential.

Drive Business Success with Workplace Flexibility

Workplace Application: Hear about award-winning strategies, practical tips and advice from best-practice companies to help you design a workflex program uniquely suited to the needs and culture of your organization.

Driving Business Results with Talent Management Strategy and Technology

Workplace Application: Learn how your organization can use an automated system to support talent management strategies and achieve workforce alignment.

Ethical Alchemy: Transforming Ethics Training into Ethical Behavior

Workplace Application: Learn how to effectively implement and reinforce ethics training that will transform behavior.

Fast Lane: Creating Purposeful Progression Programs for High Potential College Graduates

Workplace Application: Learn how to nurture and develop your top-level college graduates to become your next first-class workforce.

From War to Workplace: Strategies for Recruiting and Hiring Veterans with Disabilities

Workplace Application: This session provides resources and practical strategies for hiring, retaining and accommodating veterans with disabilities in the workplace.

Harnessing Flexibility for High Performance and Well-Being

Workplace Application: This session will show you how teaching employees to take control and flexibly manage their work+life fit day-to-day can help them sustain high levels of performance and work life well-being.

High-Powered, High-Volume Recruiting

Workplace Application: This session shows you how to create a high- volume internal recruiting platform that provides results.

How Social Media Has Transformed Talent Acquisition

Workplace Application: Learn proven techniques, strategies and examples of how SAP has used social media to transform how some of the most innovative tech companies attract and hire talent in a rapidly evolving talent climate.

How To Integrate Social Media and Technology into a Workplace Communication and Engagement Strategy

Workplace Application: You will learn how simple engagement as well as social media tools can help you retain, engage and better communicate with your employees anywhere and anytime.

How to Transform Employee Fatigue into Employee Engagement

Workplace Application: This session will help you identify the signs of a fatigued workforce and learn methods for turning team member malaise into contagious energy across the organization.

HR as Social Architect: Six Strategies for Maximizing the New Talent Equation

Workplace Application: Learn how to design strategies that cultivate social capital with human capital to unlock your organization’s capability for innovation and performance.

I Wanna Rock! How Thinking Like a Musician Can Build a Better Team...and a Better Organization

Workplace Application: Learn simple, easy to remember leadership and team building ideas that relate to musicians.

Interviewing Boot Camp: Will Your Current Process Pass a Fitness Test vs. Your Business' Goals?

Workplace Application: This session offers five key ways to test the fit of your current interviewing process against your specific hiring needs.

IQ? EQ? 4-Q? What Every HR Professional Should Know About Hiring Assessments

Workplace Application: Discover what hiring assessment approaches have the highest predictive validity and are most effective according to prevailing research findings.

Leading Organizational Change: What Would Don Draper Do?

Workplace Application: HR’s role in managing change is becoming more important as leaders look to you to help manage the human side of organizational change.

Living for the Weekday: The Employee Side of Employee Engagement

Workplace Application: This session addresses the role employees play in building a culture of employee engagement.

MEGA SESSION: 15 Ways to Engage Your Employees!

Workplace Application: Learn 15 practical and low cost ways to engage and retain your employees (to drive results).

MEGA SESSION: All In: How Great Leaders Develop a Culture of Belief and Deliver Big Results

Workplace Application: This session will show you how to engage, enable and energize your workforce.

MEGA SESSION: Extreme Makeover: Orientation and Onboarding Edition

Workplace Application: You will walk away with detailed orientation and on-boarding initiatives designed to gain staff buy-in into your organization’s mission.

MEGA SESSION: High Potential Engagement: Key Strategies for Assessing, Engaging and Developing Top Talent

Workplace Application: This session will discuss new ways to engage and develop high potentials that align with your unique needs, goals, culture and strategy.

MEGA SESSION: Lip Service: Are Your Employees Really As Important As Your Customers?

Workplace Application: Learn tools and methods you can use to increase your executives’ commitment and accountability for engagement and retention.

MEGA SESSION: Retention: Hiring on Purpose

Workplace Application: Hear how Nick’s Pizza & Pub has maintained a 25% employee turnover rate in an industry known for 100–150% turnover by clearly defining hiring practices with company mission and values.

MEGA SESSION: What a Boomer and Gen X'er Can Teach You About Engaging and Retaining Gen Y

Workplace Application: The average tenure of a Gen Y worker is two years — can you afford not to engage and retain?

MEGA SESSION: What a Boomer and Gen X'er Can Teach You About Engaging and Retaining Gen Y

Workplace Application: The average tenure of a Gen Y worker is two years — can you afford not to engage and retain?

No Excuses! How Any Leader Can Turn a Workplace Into a Great One!

Workplace Application: Learn practical, research-based guidance to address employee engagement and creating a high trust workplace.

No Excuses! How Any Leader Can Turn a Workplace Into a Great One!

Workplace Application: Learn practical, research-based guidance to address employee engagement and creating a high trust workplace.

No More Drama! How to Build High Engagement, High Morale and a Happier Workplace

Workplace Application: Learn how to manage the behaviors that undermine productivity, profitability and organizational effectiveness.

Project Management Strategies for Recruiting and Staffing

Workplace Application: You will learn key elements of project management & how to apply those elements to the recruiting/staffing process to improve success and satisfaction in your organization.

Pursuing Excellence: Abandoning Face Time and Hours for a Result Focus

Workplace Application: Hear how implementing a work environment with complete flexibility positively impacted ROI companywide at Ryan, LLC.

Racing Toward Employee Engagement: From The Pit Crew To The Finish Line

Workplace Application: Learn how to create a successful culture of employee engagement through the R.A.C.E. methodology to improve retention, productivity and ROI.

Real Inclusion: Courage, Creativity and Talent

Workplace Application: Learn how you can drive your organization to becoming a truly inclusive environment.

Reclaiming Play for Agility, Innovation and Engagement

Workplace Application: Learn concepts and strategies to enhance agility, innovation and engagement as well as improve performance in your organization.

Redesigning and Redefining Work for the 21st Century

Workplace Application: This session will review the findings from a multi-university research project and summit hosted by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University on redesigning work for the twenty first century.

Stop Blocking Your Employees from Social Media: They're Using it on Their Phones Anyway

Workplace Application: This session shows how to leverage social media as a valuable tool to help you and your employees tap the collective wisdom of peers, experts, colleagues, and friends to collaborate, innovate and add value to and strengthen your company’s bottom line.

The Aging Workforce: An Overview of Strategic Talent Management Research and Initiatives

Workplace Application: This session will examine evidence-based strategic talent management initiatives geared toward improving workplace programs for the aging workforce.

The Aging Workforce: An Overview of Strategic Talent Management Research and Initiatives

Workplace Application: This session will examine evidence-based strategic talent management initiatives geared toward improving workplace programs for the aging workforce.

The Candidate's Experience: The Journey from Moral Anecdote to Business Evidence

Workplace Application: This session offers critical data about the recruiting process from when the candidate researches to the company to the onboarding process, collected from the candidate’s perspective.

The Eyeball Conversation That Get's Results! The Power of Employee Feedback!

Workplace Application: This session shows you how to help your leaders and managers provide results- oriented employee feedback.

The Future of Diversity and Inclusion: Five Next Practices

Workplace Application: This session gives you the tools to be able to deliver greater results for your organization through implementing powerful new D & I practices.

The Limitless Workplace: Technology & Social Media in the World of Work

Workplace Application: This session will provide you with a working knowledge of the opportunities and challenges created by technology and social media in the workplace.

The Power of Individual Accountability: Increase Inclusion and Engagement in the Workplace

Workplace Application: Learn a specific and easy to implement feedback technique that can reduce HR complaints by empowering employees to resolve the issues.

Trends and Preferences In Employee Recognition

Workplace Application: This session discusses how recognition preferences have changed as a result of technological advances and how you can adapt your recognition strategy to the changing preferences of your employees.

Veteran Hiring: Changing the Conversation

Workplace Application: Learn how to hire veterans and leverage veteran’s affairs benefits to transform your workforce and fill critical positions within your company.

Violence in the Workplace: A Personal Experience

Workplace Application: You will learn the steps and tools needed to develop and implement a workplace violence program, policy and procedures.

Who Are You? Changing the Interview Process to an Inner-View Process

Workplace Application: Learn how to know who a candidate really is and if they will fit with your organization’s culture.