”Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
--- Henry Ford
It’s more vital than ever to hold onto and leverage top performers. They’ve got the outsize smarts and dedication needed if companies are to survive turbulent times and emerge stronger. Yet many employers are failing to support and sustain their best people. In this keynote, Sylvia Ann Hewlett shares what happened to top talent in the recent down cycle and explains how companies can re-engage and re-energize their stars for future growth. Drawing on the research for her books, Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down and Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets, as well as her hands-on experience advising global companies that have been successful in attracting and retaining the best, she will present cutting-edge interventions that have emerged as top picks for executives looking to motivate top talent. They include: developing a “no-spin” zone, using time as currency, re-creating pride in mission and developing lateral and “stretch” career opportunities in lieu of pay hikes.
During this program you will learn:
• How to focus on morale and build team spirit by showing that top leadership cares.
• The role of stretch experiences and lateral opportunities in building a talent pipeline.
• How to re-created pride, purpose and direction in the workforce and workplace.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and the founding president of the Center for Talent Innovation (formerly known as the Center for Work-Life Policy), a Manhattan-based think tank where she chairs the Task Force for Talent Innovation a grouping of 60 global companies committed to global talent innovation. She also directs the Gender and Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Century Association and the World Economic Forum Council on Women’s Empowerment. Hewlett is the author of eight Harvard Business Review articles and ten critically acclaimed nonfiction books including When the Bough Breaks (Basic Books, winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize), Off-Ramps and On-Ramps (Harvard Business School Press, named as one of the best business books of 2007 by Amazon.com), Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Harvard Business Press) and Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women Are the Solution (Harvard Business Press).Hewlett is the founder of Sylvia Ann Hewlett Associates LLC, a boutique consultancy. In 2009 Sylvia Ann Hewlett Associates formed an alliance with Booz & Company focused on helping organizations leverage top talent across the divides of culture, gender and generation. Dr. Hewlett has taught at Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton universities and held fellowships at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London and the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard.
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