Listen to this podcast as longtime collaborators Nick Noyes and Jack Zenger discuss links between employee engagement and leadership. The implications are vary for individuals and organizations as these two experts sum up the difference from both sides of the equation.

Adam Calli, Owner of Arc Human Capital, talks about the next big things in talent acquisition, specifically the use of data to encourage internal mobility and growth. He also offers thoughts on which acquisition strategies and trends will continue to take hold in 2016.

Delivering a compelling webinar is easy when you remember a few important steps. Once you listen to this podcast from Donald H. Taylor you're sure to remember the key ingredients for success. No one wants to sit through a boring webinar presentation; and you certainly won't deliver one with these helpful hints.

Organizational leaders should think long and hard before asserting that the company's greatest asset is its people. Symptomatic of treating employees like commodities, this claim weakens the bond between employee and employer to create a chasm of trust devoid of transparency and meaning. Employees today more than ever must feel valued at an authentic level which is unique on each level. There is a premium on managers and leaders that can demonstrate proficiency in these soft skills. Listen as former Gallup Principal and New York Times bestselling author of the new book, Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They're Real People, Rodd Wagner weighs in on the identity shift that needs to take place on the part of management and executive leaders in order to compete in the modern talent game.

In this 12 minute interview with David Schut, Workforce Planning & Analytics Practice Leader, Pacific Gas and Electric, we ask him: Can you describe your best practices for assembling workforce planning and analytics teams? What backgrounds and skills are needed? What functions should be contributing to the workforce planning process? How can you ensure implementation and long-term success of your workforce planning efforts?

When it comes to people analytics there are a few fundamental first-steps that if you aren't taking then you are really just dabbling in HR data. And this simple reporting of workforce data isn't really going to help your organization make important decisions regarding the best use of talent to support immediate or long-term business needs. Learn from someone who has been there as we interview Sachin Verma, HR Insights Leader from Discover Financial Services about how to make the leap from reporting data to delivering insights.

In a world that's constantly changing, how can you be sure that you are prepared to adapt quite literally every aspect of how we work in order to connect the workplace with what's really going on in the social age? Listen to the podcast with cartographer of the social age, Julian Stodd, as he lays out a blueprint for how organizations and individuals can best navigate change.

Managers using coaching skills continues is one of the fastest-growing trends in organizational development and the popularity of more frequent performance management conversations has only made this more apparent. As someone with first-hand knowledge of the topic. Shawna Corden provides her unique perspective to the topic of workplace coaching and how organizations can strike the right balance between internal and external coach practitioners to equip managers to utilize coaching skills.

Managers using coaching skills continues is one of the fastest-growing trends in organizational development and the popularity of more frequent performance management conversations has only made this more apparent. As someone with first-hand knowledge of the topic. Shawna Corden provides her unique perspective to the topic of workplace coaching and how organizations can strike the right balance between internal and external coach practitioners to equip managers to utilize coaching skills.

Join sales management consultant Lee Salz make the case for change in sales process. Because as he puts it, when sales professionals are sent through a more strategic sales onboarding program the results translate into direct ROI for the firm. Based on his popular business book, “Hire Right, Hire Profits – The Executive’s Guide to Building a World Class Sales Force” - http://amzn.to/1LhiwhD , podcast listeners will find out how to position their company for explosive growth through the migration of sales teams from "people-based" to "process-based."