Transforming Human Resources in an Uncertain World: How to Manage Talent in a VUCA World

In a period of turbulent stock market performance, pandemics, economic depression, massive layoffs and social upheaval, every organization must seriously consider the role of HR.  HR Transformation is more than a buzz word. It is the process of repositioning the HR function in your organization to align it with the current and future needs of your business. That is especially important at a time characterized by volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions and black swan events in which seemingly unimportant events spiral into global issues of profound impact. Hear about new ways to transform HR in this webinar.

Organizations today have never needed talent people more. But today’s organizations are threatened as never before with special challenges: terrorism, online threats, social upheaval and demands for social justice, consumer activism, and natural disasters such as hurricanes and pandemics. How can organizational leaders reinvent the way they manage people in their organizations to get the best benefits even as uncertain conditions lead to surprise business shutdowns due to the pandemic or sudden start ups as conditions with the virus permit. How can HR practices be reinvented? Hear tried-and-true and new ways in this dynamic webinar.

• Challenges organizations face today
• The need for HR transformation
• Traditional approaches to HR transformation as carried out today
• New approaches to HR transformation
• About the future of HR 

Business conditions globally have never been more uncertain than they are today. A global pandemic has led to an economic depression, massive layoffs, and work in fits-and-starts as organizations are ordered opened or closed on short notice. How can these challenges be met? That is what this webinar is all about.

• CEOs
• C-suite executives
• HR managers
• HR professionals
• Middle managers
• Front-line supervisors
• Business owners

William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPLP Fellow is President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc. He has worked in HR for more than 40 years and has also worked as a consultant for more than 50 multinational corporations--including Motorola China, General Motors, Ford, and many others. In 2012 he earned ASTD’s prestigious Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award, and in 2013 ASTD honored him by naming him as a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) Fellow. (ASTD is now called ATD.) In 2014 he was given the Asia-Pacific International Personality Brandlaureate Award.

He has authored, coauthored, edited or coedited 115 books since 1987. His recent books since 2017 include Virtual Coaching to Improve Group Relationships: Process Consultation Reimagined (Routledge, 2021), The Essential Human Resource Guide for Small Business and Start Ups (Society for Human Resource Management, 2020); Increasing Learning and Development’s Impact Through Accreditation (Palgrave, 2020); Workforce Development: Guidelines for Community College Professionals, 2nd ed. (Rowman-Littlefield, 2020); Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Performance, 3rd ed. (Routledge, 2018);  Innovation Leadership (Routledge, 2018), Evaluating Organization Development: How to Ensure and Sustain the Successful Transformation (CRC Press, 2017), Marketing Organization Development Consulting: A How-To Guide for OD Consultants (CRC Press, 2017), Assessment and Diagnosis for Organization Development: Powerful Tools and Perspectives for the OD practitioner (CRC Press, 2017). He also authored such books as The Leader’s Daily Role in Talent Management (2015), Effective Succession Planning, 5th ed. (2015), and Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader (2013).