Improving your performance management processes can impact the bottom line in many ways. Solutions range from day-to-day tactical activities to strategic programs that have far-reaching impact on the organization's goals, leadership structure and even profits. Which performance management solutions are the most important to organizations in 2008? Join us as we share how organizations are using performance management software to automate the review process, link performance to compensation, reduce turnover and develop future leaders. Discover how the right performance management strategy can help you make a huge impact on your organization's business.

As a well-informed HR professional, you get it: career and succession planning are indispensable weapons in the battle for talent. An organization can’t just “make it up as we go along” anymore; a carefully thought-out strategy is necessary. So why is it sometimes so difficult to articulate this to upper management? How can you make the execs “get it” too?

Introducing ResultsOnDemand™ – Performance, SumTotal's software-as-a-service model for analyzing performance. SumTotal’s rapid-deployment performance product includes Web-based performance appraisals, goals management tools, succession planning tools and more.

What is your organization’s engagement strategy for succession planning? Strategic HR consultant Bill Kline takes a unique approach, driving succession planning deep into the organization and focusing on employee dialogue. Learn from Kline’s own experiences as an HR executive at GE and Delta Air Lines, and find out how the most successful organizations engage employees to transform succession planning into a strategic engine for talent management.

The complementary power of scorecards and EPM gives the executive suite the ability to communicate strategy from the top desk to every desktop, while providing the strategic context for goal alignment, performance appraisals, pay for performance, succession planning and workforce planning that are typically managed by EPM software...

Learn how to build a business case for an online Employee Performance Management solution that will take minimal effort from your organization while delivering maximum ROI on your organization's only appreciating asset — Human Capital.

Employee on-boarding, the formalization of the new hire process or assimilation of employees gained through a merger or acquisition, is a strategy that many organizations have implemented to quickly ramp up new hires and meet compliance requirements.

In this lively panel discussion, learning professionals from the retail, insurance and financial services sectors describe how their companies turned new hire orientation programs into a strategic advantage.

In this session, Paul Green discusses how goal-based coaching uses a systematic, scalable, job-related approach that is guided through an internet application in a cost-effective way. Participants will learn how to step through the six step process of goal-based coaching with their own employees, clients and team members. Each step is a practical application of research and the professional practice of coaching.

Gloria Gery, expert in performance support, discusses how organizations are embedding performance into the workflow and creating performance in the situation while still generating employee capability.