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HR Management Program
Tuesday, September 30, 2008, Punta del Este, Uruguay

The William Davidson Institute and their Latin American partner, Seminarium, present:
 

Strategic HR Executive Program

an innovative executive education program designed for HR vice presidents, directors, and managers from throughout Latin America.
 
This program, to take place in Punta del Este from September 30th to October 3rd, will give HR executives the opportunity to strengthen and renew their professional expertise. Participants will explore the most relevant issues facing their organization’s human resource area and develop some cutting-edge approaches to problem solving.
 
The program will cover three topics:

Strategic HR: Building a Workforce Scorecard
Professor Beatty argues that current management and human resources practices hinder employees' ability to contribute to strategic goals. To maximize the power of their workforce, organizations must meet three challenges: view their workforce in terms of contribution rather than cost; replace benchmarking metrics with measures that differentiate levels of strategic impact; and make line managers and HR professionals jointly responsible for executing workforce initiatives.  
 
Coaching and Empowerment
Lead by Dr. Neil Sendelbach, this 1.5 days session will focus on three critical leadership areas:
  • Empowerment: A powerful and misunderstood concept
  • Engagement: The “new” empowerment?
  • Exceptional Coaching: Another leadership responsibility 
The main segment of the session will focus on the overall organization system of exceptional coaching. We will see that empowerment and engagement were precursors of a system response to employee development and retention as the war for talent escalates. A key element in the employee development system is employee coaching. Yet another responsibility for leaders.  
 
Leading Change
Lead by Dr Aneil Mishra, the Leading Change module is broken into sessions designed for human resource management executives who are responsible as part of their senior management teams for leading change in their organizations, and who desire to enhance their leadership effectiveness and trustworthiness with a wide variety of key stakeholders.

Introductory/Foundational Module
• Identifying the Best Human Resource Strategies for Leading Change
• Introducing the R.O.C.C. (Reliable, Open, Competent, Compassionate) of Trust
• Developing a Culture of Courage, Humility and Authenticity

Using the ROCC of Trust during Crisis
• Effective Crisis Communication
• The Role of HR in Preserving Trust
• Integrating Leadership, Public Relations, and Human Resource Management During Crisis

Preserving Employee Morale during Downsizing and Restructuring
• Effective HR Practices during Organizational Downsizing
• Motivating People under Conditions of Uncertainty and/or Scarcity
• Rhino Foods Video Case Study
• Exercise: Integrating HR Strategies into Firm Downsizing


For more information, please contact Sharolyn Arnett, wdi_ee@umich.edu
This program will be held in Spanish.