Val Jon Farris draws on his experience as a mentor to entrepreneurs looking to scale up quickly to paint a picture of the broader marketplace and the extraordinary opportunity facing talent management leaders today. Not only are more technical experts being placed into first-time leadership roles, but their expected ramp up to mission critical proficiency must be accelerated. Val Jon Farris offers his insight into the fundamental mindset that must take place in order to navigate the challenges of the modern marketplace.

Where does the phrase “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” come from? HR Happy Hour host and Co-Chair of the HR Technology Conference Steve Boese joins HCI to discuss the relationship between culture, talent, and strategy. Examining the pitfalls of focusing too heavily on any one aspect, Steve shares how to effectively balance your efforts between all three aspects.

Julia Abell, Senior Director of Employment at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, joins HCI to discuss the current state of talent needs in healthcare. Julia shares how value based healthcare is changing how firms are acquiring talent and examines which roles are more difficult to fill. Next, Julia reviews and explains the growth of healthcare IT. Julia wraps up the conversation exploring her vision of how she would like to see the talent acquisition process evolve for the better over the next few years.

How is data disrupting the evolution of HR? What are the biggest challenges and pain-points analytics will alleviate? How can the data from pre-hire assessments streamline HR processes? Ray Bixler, President and CEO of SkillSurvey, joins HCI to share his perspective from his years of experience in the market. Ray shares what members need to be asking and expecting when evaluating assessment software/solutions.

Learn how 2014 ICF Prism award honorable mention organization, CareSource, is leveraging professional coaching to meet strategic challenges, transform its culture and prepare for the future. Specifically we ask how coaching has become a fixture within the organization’s development of newly-placed leaders, how this program’s design and inception were fundamental to its sustainability, and how the coaching skills have been transferred and adopted throughout the front-line.

Candidates want an easy and stream-lined experience for the application process which in turn increases the volume of work for recruiters. Elaine Orler, Founder and President of Talent Function, shares how technology can help. Are there differences between generations when it comes to candidate experience? Elaine divulges the secret and gives HCI members a special formula to calculate the cost of candidate resentment putting a real number on what firms are missing out on.

Rebecca George, Client Relationship Manager, Kepner-Tregoe, follows up her successful HCI webcast with an extended interview that provides additional practical tips for using critical thinking in business scenarios. In this second part of our interview Rebecca draws from a wealth of experience in helping clients realize their own thinking styles in order to gain a better understanding of the impact they have on others within their organization.

Dr. Greg Ketchum shares his broadcasting expertise in this conversational podcast about the changing role of the L&D professional. Through the strategic planning of a pilot program - organizations can put the creation of mobile learning content in the hands of the end-user, and develop a program that delivers on meaningful business goals and is set up for long-term sustainability.

How do the candidate experience, the recruiter experience and the hiring manager experience vary? Should you invest in an app versus a mobile site? What are the latest trends in mobile? Kevin Walker, Director of Employee Insights at Indeed joins HCI to discuss and help give some perspective and answers.

Mike Grabarek of Lane Construction details his experience using assessments as the catalyst for key development and engagement initiatives. A central tenet to his overall OD strategy is to utilize enjoyment-performance methodology to drive performance and retention in a target employee group. Through better employee data, Mike aims to create an upward virtuous cycle that leads to better business results and a solid bottom-line impact.