February 23^rd, 2012 – Day 1

9:00 am -noon

Base Camp I: The Core Components of Sourcing Leadership

Chris Gould, Global Sourcing Leader, Aon-Hewitt

Chris Gould of Aon will lead this base camp workshop to kick off CSLE. This highly interactive workshop is designed for corporate sourcing leaders to come together in person in a closed-door session to discuss leadership issues, training, and advocacy. Expect to leave with tons of ideas to apply to your organization. Topics to include: team and individual metrics, compensation, advocacy, training, development, team growth, setting and meeting goals etc.

1:00 pm – 1:15 pm

CSLE Welcome

Denny Clark, Founder and Co-Director, TLI

Denny shares update and news regarding TLI and members and introduces the theme/topics of CSLE.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Keynote – Coca Cola

Tom McGuire, Coca Cola

Our co-host Tom McGuire of Coca Cola welcomes our network and shares more about the state-of-the-industry practices of this Atlanta based talent juggernaut.

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm

Keynote – Comcast: Moving From Cost to Investment – How to Make the Business Case for Funding Recruiting Initiatives that Make Real Business Impact

Steve Dunman, VP of Talent Operations, Comcast

Sara Dionne, Talent Operations, Comcast

In today’s financial environment many corporate recruiting organizations are forced to regularly justify their direction due to being perceived as a cost center and not as a profit center. As corporate talent acquisition professionals, we often make the mistake of justifying costs and not refocusing the conversation on investment and return. Having spent much of his career managing business operations prior to leading large talent acquisition organizations, Mr. Dunman has many years of experience presenting powerful business cases in support of increased investment. You’ll learn: how to create a powerful business case in support of recruiting initiatives; how to move from a discussion of cost to a focus on investment return, and how to gather and present data that motivates executive leadership.

Networking Break

4:15 pm – 5:00 pm

Get Me at Hello:  Defining Your Organization’s Candidate Experience

Elaine Orler, TLI Tech Roundtable Faculty and President Talent Function

On average, for every new hire, a company rejects 50 candidates.  What would those 50 candidates say about the recruiting process?  Would they still be your customers?  It’s the rejected candidates, not the one you hired, that have the biggest impact on your employment brand.  If companies don’t treat them well, then there will always be a negative impact on the business.  In this interactive session, Elaine Orler will take participants through a structured process to assess their own candidate experience. Orler will also outline technologies and practices that are making a difference for companies leading the way in producing good candidate experience.

Participants will:

•         Assess their own candidate experience by using a sample of the industry’s leading candidate experience diagnostic tool

•         Leave with a roadmap for how to improve their candidate experience

•         Learn what the best companies are doing to deliver excellent candidate experience

•         Learn about technology tools and solutions that can enhance your candidate experience

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm

TBA

Jennifer Golynsky, SPHR, Dir. of HR, MEAG Power

Jennifer is the director of Human Resources for the Atlanta-based MEAG Power. Jennifer will lead a discussion of how to manage talent acquisition risk as larger companies begin to rely more on information shared from Social Networking sites. This segment will be a primer on how to protect your organization as the information from Social Networks continues to explode.

5:30 pm – 6:15 pm

Reception at Georgia Tech Global Learning Center

Our members and corporate guests will enjoy a great networking reception at Georgia Tech.

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Optional Informal Dinner (off-site)

Host: Conni LaDouceur

Registrants will receive an invite and can RSVP to join our informal networking dinner at a local restaurant. Typical Cost Per Person: $30-$40.

February 24^th, 2012 – Day 2

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast (provided)

8:15 am – 10:15 am

Basecamp II: Extreme Sourcing: Diagnostics for Specialization and Optimization of Sourcing Teams

Shally Steckerl, Globally Recognized Sourcing and Recruitment Expert

You can be everything to everyone, most of the time, except for sourcing. The case for specialization remains very much alive in optimizing recruiting effectiveness. With today’s turbulent talent marketplace constraints, effectiveness only delivers average results. The extreme optimization of existing recruitment teams is required in order to establish talent identification practices that yield a virtuous cycle of sustainable competitive advantages. Truly effective sourcing uses ingenuity and innovation to enhance the recruiting process by leveraging information and expertise. During this event, Mr. Steckerl will demonstrate the high-level diagnostic he uses to identify opportunities when integrating the sourcing specialty. You will learn to utilize his breakthrough method to conduct a realistic assessment of your recruitment organization. Find bottlenecks, opportunities for gaining efficiency or reducing waste, and strategic advantages you can gain immediately.

Break

10:30 am– 11:15 am

Diversity Keynote

Dr. Julius Pryor III

Julius Pryor is the General Managing Partner of JPryorGroup. He helps high performing teams marshal strengths to realize their true potential in the arena of diversity. In this session, he will present a vision of the future horizon and impact of diversity talent acquisition and how our definition of “diversity” may be changing with the advent of emerging demographics in the areas of age and identity.

11:15 am– 12:15 pm

AFLAC Case Study

Darlene Porter, 2^nd VP, Employee Relations & Talent Management, AFLAC Inc.

Darlene will discuss the increasing skills gap and workforce preparedness issue related to the entry workforce.

Lunch Break (lunch provided)

1:00 pm– 2:00 pm

Recruitment & Radical Innovation - Survey Results (part of the ongoing Institutionalizing Innovation through Workforce study)

Dr. Lois Peters, RPI Lally School of Management, co-leader Radical Innovation Project, co-author, "Grabbing Lightening" and "Radical Innovation."

Dr. Lois Peters joins us in Atlanta to share the results of the survey conducted last year in collaboration with TLI to determine the state-of-innovation practices within recruiting and sourcing. She will also share the latest insights gained from the ongoing Phase 3 of the Radical Innovation Project: Institutionalizing Innovation through Workforces: aimed at understanding the links between radical innovation and best-in-class talent acquisition, and other workforce management practices as well as understanding how sourcing and recruiting fit into the overarching corporate mandate to find and hire better innovation team leaders and generally more innovative workers.

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Failure 2.0

John Chaisson (Co-Director, TLI) & David Earle, (Staffing.org/TLI Faculty); Ed Bernaki, innovation expert, Wow.

Why are we so uncomfortable managing failure? Effective operational functions manage failure rather than ignore it or try to banish it. Building on a similar segment in 2009, join us for our second installment on leveraging success from failure in talent acquisition. In this highly interactive session, CSLE’s familiar experts will explore the latest strategies for leading failure towards lasting success, link failure to risk management objectives, review several case studies and then involve our audience in a robust hands-on series of exercises.

3:00 pm– 3:30 pm

Closing

TLI Principals