From small organizational changes to company-wide reorganizations, every organization is exposed to legal risk.

Is yours prepared?

Join us for the webinar How to Avoid Common Mistakes in RIFs and Restructurings: A Legal Perspective on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2011, from 10-11 a.m. PST/1-2 p.m. EST.

Register here.

Hear Scott Baken, Partner at Jackson Lewis, White Plains, NY—one of the leading workforce litigation firms in the United States—discuss the legal risks inherent in separation events and how to prepare and protect your organization.

Learn how to:

• Retain key talent during separation events.
• Avoid wrongful termination lawsuits.
• Prevent common mistakes that could cost your organization millions.

Scott will share expertise gleaned from more than 20 years supporting management in employment law, most often around employee separations and reductions in force. If your organization is anticipating a merger, acquisition, reduction in force or restructuring on any scale, this is a must-attend event.

About Scott

Coordinator of Jackson Lewis’ Reduction in Force practice, Scott counsels attorneys on cutting edge approaches to workplace reorg issues. He also advises clients on subjects such as sexual harassment, RIFs and the implementation of preventive personnel practices designed to increase productivity, enhance morale and ensure compliance with federal, state and local laws that impact the workplace.

For most multi-nationals, organizational strategy and workforce planning are driven centrally, then rolled out across divisions and geographies. While organizational planning in one division is difficult enough, rolling it out cohesively across the enterprise or world can be a complicated and challenging initiative. How can it be effective when roles, competencies, and skills are organized under completely different terminology and technology?

The barriers to a successful enterprise-wide initiative center around blending workforce information, understanding the baseline data and establishing a common vocabulary—as well as working through cultural issues. How can an organization break through the differences and align the workforce so it achieves the most important business outcomes?

The upcoming webcast Worldwide Workforce Planning: Facing the Challenge from Definition to Deployment, presented in partnership with Human Capital Institute, the Global Association for Strategic Talent Management, aims to help answer those questions. It’s part of HCI’s organizational planning track and features renowned HCM maven John Boudreau.

Worldwide Workforce Planning:
Facing the Challenge from Definition to Deployment

Presented by: HCI, HumanConcepts
Date: Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 | 9 a.m. PST/12:00 p.m. EST

Register here.

Webcast Presenters

Dr. John W. Boudreau is Professor and Research Director at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and Center for Effective Organizations. He is recognized worldwide for breakthrough research on the bridge between superior human capital, talent and sustainable competitive advantage. His research has received the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior New Concept and Human Resource Scholarly Contribution awards.

Dr. Boudreau consults and conducts executive development with companies worldwide that seek to maximize their employees’ effectiveness by quantifying the strategic bottom-line impact of superior people and human capital strategies. An architect and the first Visiting Director of Sun Microsystems’ unique Research and Development Laboratory for Human Capital, Professor Boudreau is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources.

He has published more than 50 books and articles. Features on his work have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Business Week, among others. A strong proponent of corporate/academic partnerships, Dr. Boudreau directed the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS), at Cornell University, where he was a professor for more than 20 years.

Helen Friedman
Workforce Analytics and Planning, U.S. East Practice Leader
Towers Watson

Helen is a Senior Consultant in Stamford, CT, and leader of the Workforce Analytics and Planning practice in the U.S. East division for  Towers Watson. She has 25 years of experience in leading and supporting client efforts across a broad array of analytics, including workforce planning and optimization, dashboards and reporting, site selection and labor market analysis, and total rewards strategy.

Helen also is one of Towers Watson’s key thought leaders supporting the development of our strategic offerings and technology for global workforce planning and reporting. In addition, she has implemented sophisticated statistical modeling techniques that are being applied to uncover drivers of key organizational outcomes, answering questions such as: who is successful at our organization, what drives our turnover, and what workforce factors accelerate revenue growth?

Prior to joining Towers Watson, Helen was a Principal at another leading HR consulting firm and was responsible for that firm’s workforce planning and specialized analytics offerings. Over her years in consulting, she has had both direct consulting responsibilities and global management roles with regard to service development, including leading efforts to build proprietary technology to support workforce planning.

Helen is known in the HR consulting community as a thought leader in the area of workforce planning. Fortune 25 companies have consulted with her to better understand workforce analytics methods and solutions. Over her career, Helen has worked with large, multinational organizations in a number of industries, including defense, energy, financial services, health care, high tech, hospitality, specialty materials and retail.

Helen is a sought-after expert and speaker at national industry and general HR conferences and her work has been published in national journals including the Journal of Organizational Excellence. She earned her B.A. in Mathematics at Haverford College and an MBA with highest honors at Columbia Business School in Finance and Management.

Experts say 40% of M&A, RIF and reorgs fail to meet business objectives.

Learn how SAP clients like Lucent use HumanConcepts Transition Manager to reduce risk, legal challenges and key talent loss during workforce separations. Sign up our upcoming encore presentation of Reorganization–from Chaos to Control on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT.

Hear from:

• SAP Line of Business Solutions VP Dawn Crew, who will discuss the workforce separation challenges SAP and HumanConcepts solve.
• Tom Glasscock, former manager of the Force Management Reduction Program at Lucent, who will present a case study showcasing how he used SAP and Transition Manager to gain control over a 30k+ employee reduction in force.
• Elisa Safanda, VP, Business Development, HumanConcepts.

Register here.

Our new HumanConcepts Webinar Series is free but invaluable for HR, HRIS, ERP and Talent Management professionals looking to expand their knowledge base.

Sign up for as many sessions as you like. We also recommend inviting colleagues, industry friends and anyone who could use a little organizational enlightenment.

Here’s the Fall 2011 Lineup:

One Organization. One Org Chart.

How many org charts does it take to see your entire workforce? If the answer is anything greater than one, attend this webinar and learn best practices to understand your workforce hierarchy, gain insight into KPIs and overcome the challenges of centralizing data.

—Wednesday, Nov. 2 | 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST | Register Now

Experts say 40% of M&A, RIFs and reorganizations fail to meet business objectives. By employing best practices along with technology for managing reorganizations, progressive organizations are successfully reducing risk, cost and key talent loss during workforce reductions.

—Wednesday, Nov. 9 | 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST | Register Now

An organization is only as strong as its ability to work effectively as a team; therefore, it’s crucial to understand each individual’s role in the overall game plan. See how HumanConcepts solutions help organizations better align their workforce to meet business goals.

—Wednesday, Nov. 16 | 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST | Register Now

Beyond Spreadsheets: The Formula for Escaping Inaccurate Workforce Data

Even with the abundance of available Talent, HCM, ERP and learning software systems, many organizations still rely on simple spreadsheets for analytics. Learn how to bring static workforce data to life inside dynamic org charts.

—Wednesday, Nov. 30 | 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST | Register Now

It’s Monday Morning. Do You Know Where Your Headcount Is?

If you’re like many companies, you’re probably using hand-drawn charts or custom-built solutions to visualize your organizational structure. There’s a better way. Join HumanConcepts to learn how to automate org charts and easily access KPIs.

—Wednesday, Dec. 7 | 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST | Register Now

You’re invited to participate in an important survey jointly sponsored by International Human Resources Information Management (IHRIM) and Jeitosa Group International with the objective to uncover leading practices in Global HR, covering the following areas: Strategy, Organization, People, Process and Technology.

Going Global in 2011—A Survey on Leading Practices for Global HR has 35 questions and should take only about 15 to 20 minutes to complete.

According to Bill Kutik, analyst, columnist, and father of the HR Technology Conference:

“Amid the clutter, one survey stands out for HR’s international issues and the challenges in going global: Jeitosa Group International’s Going Global Survey. Jeitosa’s survey covers global HR strategy, organization, business process, culture, and technology.”

Get Survey Results, Free One-Hour Consultation

In appreciation of your support, we will provide you with a copy of the final report, as well as a free, one-hour consultation with one of Jeitosa’s Transnational Experts to discuss and benchmark your organization with others in the study.

Take the survey here.

Your responses will be kept completely confidential and reported on only in aggregate so that no corporate or personal information is recognizable.

Thank you in advance for participating in the study and helping to further industry knowledge on “Going Global” with HR!

RSVP here.

Meanwhile, during HR Tech 2011 show hours, you’ll be able to visualize HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, the next generation of OrgPlus Enterprise, inside Mandalay Bay, booth #438.