Oakland, Calif. — March 30
Bersin & Associates, an HR research and consulting firm, announced new research proving that organizations that excel at social networking and informal learning significantly outperform their peers in global talent development.
Senior Analyst Janet Clarey will unveil preliminary findings regarding this new research as part of her “Going Global with High-Impact Learning,” at IMPACT 2012: The Business of Talent.
The research found that organizations with strong informal learning capabilities, including the adoption and use of social learning tools and the development of a global learning culture, are three times more likely to excel at global talent development than organizations without those competencies.
The research suggests that for companies to succeed at building a globally integrated enterprise, they must adopt social and informal learning strategies. The findings underscore the value of “Building Business Agility through People,” the theme of Bersin & Associates’ fifth annual conference that takes place April 10-13 at the Vinoy Renaissance Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Bersin & Associates analysts will provide a preview of findings from several other recent and soon-to-be published studies, including:
• Driving Agility: The Truths and Myths that Make a Difference: Bersin & Associates’ CEO and President Josh Bersin will introduce the Agile Model of HR as a new way of managing people and share research-based examples showcasing how traditional myths in HR and Talent Management are being shattered as “new truths” that drive transformational business performance emerge.
• Making Better Decisions: Data, “Big Data” and You: To address the opportunities for BigData in HR, Bersin & Associates will be introducing the company’s new Talent Analytics Maturity Model at the conference. Katherine Jones, director and principal analyst, will host a panel including James Raybould, director of business analytics, LinkedIn; Sean Dineen, vice president of talent management and organizational development, Luxottica; and Prescott Nichols, senior director of recruiting solutions, Strategy and Operations, Capital One.
• Getting Away from the Score: Creating Better Ongoing Performance Feedback: Senior Analyst Stacia Garr will share Bersin’s newest research on the case for ongoing performance feedback, including the specific tactics companies use and the results they see.
• Driving Business Impact and Alignment with Leadership Development: Senior Analyst Laci Loew will discuss Bersin & Associates’ newly released Leadership Development Framework, which provides direction for designing leadership strategy and leadership development solutions that link to business strategy.
• Measuring and Improving Quality of Hire: Kim Lamoureux, senior director of research practices and principal analyst, talent acquisition, Bersin & Associates, and Karen O’Leonard, director of research methods and analytics and principal analyst, benchmarking, Bersin & Associates, share the measurement approaches successful companies use.
Source: Bersin & Associates
