The Walker Group - HR Leadership Capabilities

Aligning HR Processes 1: Strategic staffing

Working with managers, explain staffing implications of business plans

Define requirements, forecast availability and identify gaps and surpluses

Develop future staffing plans to address identified gaps

Establish relevant selection criteria, recruit and select talent required

Match talent within the organization with assignment opportunities

On-the-Job

Take responsibility for staffing a new project or operation Compare past and current staffing patterns Analyze strategic business plan and confirm future skill needs with senior management Evaluate current recruiting process against future skill needs

Education and Training

Strategic Staffing (The Walker Group, offered in-house as a workshop, 2 days, 203-431-1333)
Cornell University (212-340-2863)
---Strategic Staffing, 1 day (New York City), $445
---Selection and Staffing, 2 days, $795
Growing a Company by Retaining Top Talent (Stanford University, 415-381-9363, Video, $95)

Interviewing: A Strategic Approach (University of Michigan, 313-763-1000, 3 days, $1800)

Attracting and Retaining Employees (Conference Board, 212-339-0345, 2 days, $1350)

Linkage, Inc., 781-862-3157
---Building Competency-Based Selection, Performance and Learning Systems, 2 days, $1095
---Strategic Recruitment, Selection and Retention for Competitive Advantage, 2 days, $1095

International Quality and Productivity Center (973-256-0205)
   ---Web Based Recruitment, 2 days, London, $1495
   ---Managing the Market-Driven Workforce: Innovative and Proven Strategies for Retaining Your Key Employees, 3 days
   ---Winning Strategies for College and University Recruiting, 2 days, $1599
   ---Winning Strategies to Become a Graduate Employer of Choice, 3 days, London

American Management Association (518-891-1500)
   ---Recruiting and Retention Strategies, 2 days, $1720
   ---Aligning Talent-Retention Initiatives with Corporate Strategy to Boost Your Bottom Line, 2 days, $1475
   ---Advanced Recruiting and Retention Strategies for a Tight Labor Market, 2 days, $1545
   ---Strategic Outsourcing, 2 days, $1250

How to Retain and Develop the Best Talent (Career Systems, 800-577-6916, 1 day, $99)

How to Motivate and Retain your Superstar Employees(Institute for International Research, 212-661-8740, 2 days, $1095)

Hiring the Best (JWAVideo, 312-829-5100, Video, $100)

Managing Global Assignments in the 21st Century (KPMG, 201-307-8488, 3 days, $995)

Annual Conference & Exposition, Employment Management Association (SHRM), 703-548-3440, 3 days, $600

Reading

Create and Keep a Winning Workforce: Prepare, Select, Build (A Collection of 21 Book Summaries, Soundview Executive Book Summaries, 610-558-9495, $35)
Retention Management: Strategies, Practices, Trends (American Management Association with the Saratoga Institute, 800-714-6395)
The Conference Board (212-339-0345)
   ---Contingent Employment, HR Executive Review, Vol.3, No. 2, 1995
   ---Strategies for Retaining Critical Talent, HR Exectuive Review, Report No. HRER-18, 1998
   ---Downsizing, Report No. WFR-9702, 1997
William Bridges, JobShift (Addison-Wesley, 1994)

Gayle Caplan and Mary Teese, Survivors: How to Keep Your Best People on Board after Downsizing (Davies-Black Publishing, 1997)

Peter Cappelli, The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)

Donald L. Caruth et al., Staffing the Contemporary Organization (Quorum Books, 1988)

Mary Cook (ed.), AMA Handbook for Employee Recruitment and Retention (AMACOM, 800-262-9699)

Thomas O. Davenport, Human Capital: What It Is and Why People Invest It (Jossey-Bass, 1999)

Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21st Century (Harper Business, 1999)

Brian Friedman, James Hatch and David Walker, Delivering the Promise: How to Attract, Manage and Retain Human Capital (Free Press, 1998)

Maurice F. Greaver II, Strategic Outsourcing: A Structured Approach to Outsourcing Decisions and Initiatives (AMACOM, 1999)

Jim Harris and Joan Brannick, Finding and Keeping Great Employees (AMACOM)

Herbert Heneman, Robert Heneman and Timothy Judge, Staffing Organizations (Irwin, 1996)

Roger E. Herman, Keeping Good People (Oakhill Press, 1999)

Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, Love 'em or Lose 'em (Berrett-Koehler, 1999)

Jerard Kehoe (ed.), Managing Selection in Changing Organizations (Jossey-Bass, 1999)

Joseph D. Levesque, Complete Manual for Recruiting, Hiring and Retaining Employees (Prentice-Hall, 1997)

W. Gilmore McKie and Laurence Lipsett, The Contingent Worker (SHRM, 1996)

Ronald B. Morgan and Jack E. Smith, Staffing the New Workplace (ASQC Quality Press, 1996)

Pierre Mornell, Hiring Smart: How to Predict Winners and Losers (Ten Speed Press, 1998)

Jeffrey Pfeffer, The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First (Harvard Business School Press, 1998)

Joseph Rosse and Robert Levin, High-Impact Hiring: A Comprehensive Guide to Performance-Based Hiring (Jossey-Bass, 1997)

Michael S. Schell and Charlene M. Solomon, Capitalizing on the Global Workforce (Irwin Professional Publishing, 1997)

Lye and Sign Spender, Competence at Work: Models for Superior Performance (John Wiley & Sons, 1993)

Bradford D. Smart, Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People (Prentice Hall, 1999)

Dan Ward, Thomas P. Bechet and Robert Tripp, Human Resource Forecasting and Modeling (Human Resource Planning Society, 212-490-6387)

|| Home || About Us || HR Leadership Consortium || Wharton HRBS ||
|| Leadership Development Process || Development Action Guide || Quick Jump to the Guide || Contact Us ||