Harvard Business School Offers Talent Management Course for Executives

Harvard Business School (HBS) recently announced it will soon offer an executive education class meant to help human resources executives attract, train and keep top talent.

General managers, human resources executives and senior executives are invited to the business school’s Boston campus on May 5–10 for Driving Performance Through Talent Management. The program will help companies find and develop top employees and give those employees incentives to fulfill companies’ core business goals. More than 9,000 executives participated in HBS’s various programs last year. HBS offers more than 80 of these types of open-enrollment executive education programs.

Attendees will participate in class discussion, examine case studies and hear faculty presentations, where faculty experts will present the latest HBS research on talent development. Much of the research, discussion and case studies will be concerned with common workplace issues such as employee communication and management, motivating performance, developing new leaders and improving company diversity.

Business leaders need to fully understand the relationship between individual and corporate performance, said Das Narayandas, James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean and Chairman of Executive Education and Publishing at HBS, in a press release. Participants in the program will be “challenged to rethink their current infrastructure and implement purposeful strategies for rewarding performance and retaining talent.”

Interested participants, who must pass an application process, will fill out a pre-program survey to help students identify the areas in their talent management process that need the most improvement — and each participant can enlist up to 10 other executives at their organization to answer the same survey. HBS has no formal education requirement for participants, but they must have a history of professional achievement and hold a high level of organizational responsibility.

With the information gathered from the survey, Harvard Business School faculty will determine the results and provide each participant with a custom report. During the course, participants will create a specific and customized action plan for their own organization that can be implemented immediately after finishing the week-long program.

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