For the first time in modern history, workplace demographics now span four generations. Understanding the unique social influences that have shaped the behaviors of each is instrumental in creating productive work teams. And when managed effectively, their strengths, perspectives, and experiences can bring synergy in the workplace.

Download this white paper for best practices on how to better understand and effectively manage a multi-generational workforce.

Almost every business leader says that people are their most important asset, but few do anything about it.

If you are going to take this principle seriously, then human capital planning is crucial. The Human Capital Plan is an important tool that organizations use to drive focused actions that can ensure goal achievement and business success. It allows companies to assess, plan for, and respond proactively to their human capital challenges and needs.

A robust benefits package can be the difference between a talented superstar choosing to work with you as opposed to a larger, more established competitor. But with the cost of benefits rising each year, providing a benefits package that helps you attract, retain, and motivate talented people gets harder all the time.

People say that business is all about relationships, but the truth is that business is really all about communication. Communication is key to virtually every aspect of business—especially when it comes to dealing with customers. At the most fundamental level, gaining and retaining customers can’t happen without great communication. This is even more true in the era of globalization. Read this white paper to learn about how as geographic borders become porous and the world flattens, effective communication with customers across the globe becomes essential to success.

Take advantage of this well-kept business secret. 77% of organizations surveyed in a January 2014 study by global consultancy Illuminas estimated that English Language Learning increases profitability by 25%. Check out this new infographic for a clear picture of ELL’s impact on organizational performance—and take away some key considerations for your own ELL implementation.

After a decade of service in the United States Air Force, Dr. Salvatore Falletta skillfully leveraged his knowledge and expertise to help shape future leaders and high-impact talent of Fortune 500 companies such as Intel, Nortel Networks and Sun Microsystems. American Public University talks with Dr. Falletta, EVP and managing director for the Organizational Intelligence Institute, about effective leadership styles, talent e

Change the perception of talent acquisition

In this guide you will learn about the strategic importance of the 4 fundamental talent acquisition processes: competency management, pre-employment testing, interviewing, and onboarding and how each plays a role in engaging candidates who’ll continue to enhance your business.

Learn:

- 4 talent acquisition processes tied to your bottom line.

- Tips for creating a new, more strategic talent acquisition paradigm.

Plan for program success

Global talent management is much more than simply a local program on a larger scale. Every organization with global aspirations needs a global talent management strategy for three of the most common challenges: global leadership/development, succession management, and talent acquisition.

Learn:

- The top global talent challenges organizations face.

- Six critical success factors that will ensure your program delivers results.

- Three secrets to a successful global implementation.

New HR solutions and technologies create greater challenges for talent management at every turn. They also create even more opportunities. When it comes to making a technology decision for your organization, you have a clear opportunity to lead and steer a successful outcome for your team and your organization. The Ultimate Buyer's Guide to Integrated Talent Management has everything you need to lead a successful search for integrated talent management solutions.

Enabling New Hire Success: SuccessFactors Takes Onboarding to the Next Level

Competition for talent is fierce, and employer branding – or communicating why your company is a great place to work – is becoming a more sophisticated and more critical part of a recruiting strategy. While you communicate an employer brand in many ways, it's most important on the corporate career site, where you have the opportunity to convert people you've touched through other channels into potential future employees. Read on to discover five best practices that can help make your career site your # 1 recruiting asset.

Social recruiting is just one aspect of a multi-channel recruiting strategy, but it’s one you can’t afford to overlook. With more than a billion users on Facebook and 200 million on LinkedIn, social networks are a great way to diversify your recruiting strategy and take advantage of social communities. But social recruiting is more than just having a Facebook page or tweeting job postings. Done well, social recruiting can increase your reach, improve the quality of your hires, and reduce your sourcing costs.

Download the Talent Management report to learn why SuccessFactors was named a leader again this year. This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the recruiting management market through the IDC MarketScape model.

Onboarding is the key to getting new employees up and running both quickly and smoothly. This paper discusses how organizations that leverage the power of connection during onboarding experience enhanced new employee performance, higher job attitudes such as satisfaction and commitment, and decreased turnover.

Big Data or No Data: Can Wellness Boost Engagement?

Wellness programs have been touted as a partial solution for employers looking to manage increasing health care costs. But is hands-on health boosting productivity and engagement? The answer comes down to companies’ ability to collect and measure the right data.

Neutralize your leadership pipeline vulnerabilities

The future success of any business relies on having the right leaders in place to drive business results. Download our free guidebook to find out where you’re most vulnerable.

Learn:

-   5 key ingredients for a gap-free pipeline.

-   6 tips for creating a pipeline strategy.

-   Fundamental elements required for future agility.

A new research study by the ADP Research Institute® shows that the recruiting world has not kept up with the rising tide of job seeker expectations. The new talent acquisition experience will require recruiters to keep up with shifting age demographics, new technology tools and the move to a more consumer-styled job experience.

Find out what quality talent acquisition looks like and how to close the gap between recruiter and job seeker expectations. Access this new study for key trends and recommendations you can’t afford to ignore.

Businesses facing growth and change require systems that evolve with them. The fact is, traditional software is simply too rigid to keep pace. Your savvy peers are transforming their systems to run in the cloud. Read the whitepaper to learn how you can, too, and benefit long into the future.

Why is it so difficult for HR to demonstrate how it affects business growth and profitability? Find out in this whitepaper, written by Leighanne Levensaler, Workday vice president of Human Capital Management (HCM) strategy. Levensaler discusses the problems with current HR systems and the ways they are holding you back.

Global organizations must be responsive to market realities to drive performance, whether those realities are new government regulations, healthcare reform, business model shifts, or industry upswings and downturns. Read the whitepaper to learn how Workday customers are taking steps to proactively prepare for these inevitabilities.

In the last few years, corporate and nonprofit industries have begun to experience a transformational shift in culture expectations and attitudes of their emerging professionals. There is increasing demand for workplaces that equally value and focus on people, planet and profits and for leaders who understand that everything is connected. We speak with Tatiana Sehring, director of corporate and strategic relationships at American Public University, about her thoughts on these trends that are supporting this workplace transformation.

Did you know 77% of organizations surveyed in a January 2014 study by global consultancy Illuminas estimated that English language learning increases profitability by 25%? Read this new white paper to understand ELL’s impact on organizational performance—and take away some key considerations for your own ELL implementation.

Who Controls Your Social Learning?

Learning leaders can try to control their employees’ social interactions to minimize the spread of misinformation and to discourage complaints, but it could impair the medium’s effectiveness.

Companies are using workforce analytics to find better candidates, cut costs and stamp out inefficiencies.

Leading With Excellence: Mindful Leadership Training and Exceptional Organizations

Go Mobile?

The era of big data promises to make employee learning faster, better and cheaper, provided organizations invest in the skill sets and critical thinking needed to grapple with sophisticated data analytics.

Executive coaching has shaken off its remedial reputation to become a dominant development medium for top brass. Here’s how learning leaders can maximize its value.

The middle level of an organization is often viewed as the most critical. Companies can use tools such as personality and skill assessments to measure the traits that help to make a midlevel manager successful.

The traditional performance review is becoming a relic. Today’s organizations thrive on agility and alignment. The process of measuring employee performance should do the same.