Capital Analytics CEO Gene Pease at Taleo Innovation Tour

The workforce is facing a major talent shortfall with the pending retirement of Baby Boomers. Further, there will soon be 5 distinct generations of people in the workforce. How will companies deal with the shifting dynamics? The more you understand your workforce, the better you can deal with these changes.

Developing Leaders: How can analytics help?

Advances in the field of human capital analytics have given HR professionals a new tool kit with which to approach leadership development. Not only can HR use business data to calculate an ROI on soft skills, but statistical modeling and data analytics provide insights into leadership development that make the initiative stronger and the spend smarter. This presentation explores the work of thought leaders, including John Boudreau and Tom Davenport, who have unlocked HR’s ability to quantify investments in people.

Advanced analytics can help prepare tomorrow’s corporate leaders by showing where—and with whom—the investment is working and where it can be improved. A case study of first-level leader development at ConAgra Foods will show participants how a leading organization applied key concepts in measurement and evaluation. By conducting an in-depth study into their leadership initiatives, ConAgra’s HR executives were armed with powerful data to report successes to upper management and a plan for continuous improvement.

ConAgra Foods initiated the Foundations of Leadership (FoL) training program for their front-line supervisors to help unite a company built through acquisition. ConAgra Foods partnered with Capital Analytics to evaluate business impact on a plant and individual basis of their trained and untrained supervisors. Not only did FoL have a strong ROI, but ConAgra Foods received intelligence to improve the program going forward.

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Performance Management: How can analytics help?

With the generational turnover of Boomers retiring, Gen X rising and Millennials filling in the gaps, it’s no surprise that companies are scrambling to prepare the leaders of tomorrow. As investments in performance management increase, so does the demand on human resources professionals to prove the impact. Human capital initiatives have traditionally been considered too difficult to quantify, let alone able to be improved through data-driven insights.

Advanced analytics can help prepare tomorrow’s corporate leaders by showing where—and with whom—the investment is working and where it can be improved. A case study pertaining to the performance management within VF Corporation, a $7 billion global apparel company that owns such brands as The North Face, Wrangler, Vans, Lee, JanSport and many others, will show participants how a leading organization applied key concepts in measurement and in evaluation. By conducting an in-depth study into their performance management initiatives, VF Corporation’s HR executives were armed with powerful data to report successes to upper management and a plan for continuous improvement.

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