Boost Your Bottom Line: Strategies for Maximising Human Capital

COURSE OVERVIEW

Organisations are increasingly realising that their competitive edge lies not only in their products and services, but rather in their people or Human Capital, Whatever the industry, companies are competing for scarce resources in the form of critical skills needed to assist with the achievement of business goals. The challenge lies in not only securing the right talent and skills but also in retaining them. This needs to be achieved within an environment of continuously changing business models, company expansion, new markets and alliances ever changing legislation as well as many other factors To make things even more difficult there is an increasingly selective and demanding pool of talent who are prepared to “shop around” for the most attractively packaged employment deal. It is no wonder, therefore, that companies are beginning to focus far more on their employment branding aspects and implementing deliberate strategies to enable them to become an ’employer of choice”. For many companies, this means leveraging human capital by significantly improving people practices and processes with a focus on leadership culture and employment equity based transformation, change management, recruitment, development, reward and recognition. Within this context, dynamic. best practice processes which assist in the attraction, management, development and retention of talent need to be in place. To assist organisations in meeting some of these challenges, AstroTech is offering a training programme on “Maximising Human Capital”. The course content includes the following key topics: 

‣ The new world of work and changing psychological contracts A HR as a strategic business partner: myth or reality? 

‣ The changing HR agenda, scorecard and measures 

> Benchmarking 

◦ Defining human and knowledge capital Employment branding: what is your employee value proposition?

 ‣ Employee wellbeing: soft touch or necessity? 

◦ What attracts them there will tend to keep them there, but does the reality match the promise? 

‣ What is your current business reality and environment? 

‣ Does your business model, strategy, structure and governance enable you to optimise human capital? 

‣ Aligning people practices to business strategy What does being a performance oriented company actually mean? 

◦ Performance management vs. enablement strategies Performance measurement and feedback 

‣ Retention strategies and the total rewards model; strategic remuneration trends 

‣ Talent management; planning for succession Aligning learning and development with the company’s core competency requirements 

◦ Developing business acumen 

◦ Developing transformation leadership skills 

◦ Building change management capacity 

‣ Managing change across corporate cultures What does managing diversity actually mean?

 .AND MUCH MORE!

OUTCOMES

After attending this course attendees should: 

‣ Develop your ability to view people practices as an integral part of business strategy ⁃ Have been exposed to current trends and thinking

‣ Be able to network with people from different industries who face the same challenges as you do and may have some innovative strategies in place in terms of human capital attraction and retention

‣ Have been exposed to practical models and frameworks which can be applied back in the workplace

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Managers who have responsibility for implementing human resources strategies and practices in their organisation
•  Managers wanting to optimise their human capital
•  Managers wanting to attract and retain skilled resources
•  Practitioners in the fields of HR, OD, HRD / ETD
• Anyone with an interest in human