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William A. Schiemann, Ph.D. - Talent Management - March 10, 2010

How can you understand and measure the value that human resources bring to your organization? It’s a critical question, especially in challenging economic times. Traditional accounting methods just don’t provide answers. A new model of People Equity puts talent into a measureable framework that can be connected to both customer and financial equity. This session explores the three core components of People Equity—Alignment, Capabilities, and Engagement—and shows how leaders can link human capital investments to key measures of workforce optimization, turnover, customer loyalty, and other operational indices. <Read More>

Career Day - March 12, 2010

METRO has developed a program that explores major career options available to junior I/O and OD professionals, students, and those looking to make career transitions. Join us to hear early career and senior practitioners discuss the knowledge, skills, abilities and characteristics that employers are seeking and how they go about identifying suitable candidates. Also hear about the ins and outs of the job search from recent job seekers. <Read More>

Newsletter & Recent Posts

Bill Byham - Speaker's Corner - December 2009

Business networking is synonymous to the hot buzz terms: connectivity, collaboration, relationship management, social capital, building coalitions, and social acumen. Networks are useful; not only to land future jobs, but also to increase the number of people who can readily provide you with business-related information in one’s current role. Sometimes researching a problem takes more time than reaching out to a contact.<Read More>

Nancy Tippins - Speaker's Corner - January 2010

The current business challenges, ever-increasing globalization and expanding constituents involved in global operations has had a tremendous impact in the area of assessments. The development of new labor markets as well as the rise in the number of expatriates, inpatriates, and parent/host/third country nationals has led to the need for global assessments.<Read More>

iCoach New York - Professional Coaching Program - March 2010

The faculty of iCoachNewYork, in association with Baruch College, CUNY, is happy to announce our upcoming professional coaching program which kicks off in New York City in March 2010. The intensive 3-month program is for experienced professionals who want to add Executive Coaching to their offerings.<Read More>

Bill Byham - "Behind the Mic"

In December, Bill Byham, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Development Dimensions International (DDI), spoke to METRO about the growing importance of Business Networking. I interviewed Bill following his talk to learn more about the origins of his focus on this topic.<Read More>

Robert and Joyce Hogan - Abstracting Leadership

This short paper argues that the academic study of leadership has largely failed for certain clear reasons. The paper offers an alternative model of leadership that focuses on the functions of leadership, on employee engagement, and the ROI of good management.<Read More>

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