HR Leadership Development Program

Transforming the Human Resource Capability

The HR Leadership Development Program is specifically designed for senior HR leaders who not only want to transform themselves, but also transform the HR function itself. This six-month development program has a number of unique features, including: a personal competency assessment, one-one-one coaching sessions, three group workshops focused on the skills required for next generation HR leadership, monthly group teleconferences, access to world-class instructors, and the ability to build a network of peers from other premier corporations.

Who Should Participate

The HR Leadership Development Program is specifically designed for senior HR leaders who want to develop themselves and the HR capabilities within their company. The program focuses on the skills and insights required for leading a firm's future talent activities, rather than on traditional HR competencies.

About Tammy Erickson

Tammy Erickson is both a respected, McKinsey Award-winning author and popular and engaging teacher and storyteller. Her compelling views of the future are based on extensive research on changing demographics and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations work. Well-grounded and academically rigorous, fundamentally optimistic, Tammy's work discerns and describes interesting trends in our future and provides actionable counsel to help both organizations and individuals prepare today.

Tammy has coauthored four Harvard Business Review articles, one Sloan Management Review article, and the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent. She is currently writing a trilogy of books on how individuals in specific generations can excel in today's workplace. Her first, Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation, was released earlier this year. Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work will be available in the fall of 2008. The third, for Generation X, will be available next year.

Read Tammy's weekly blog, "Across the Ages" on HBSP Online

Read the introduction to Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation, available at Amazon.com.

Read the management summary on Engaging Gen Y.

Today's HR Leadership Challenge

Human Resources is undergoing a dramatic transformation - from operating as a function within the corporation to addressing the holistic talent needs of the business. Today's HR executives must be focused on business impact and the direct contribution of talent decisions and practices to the strategic success of the company. This transformation is reflected in six major shifts of focus, from the legacy "HR 1.0" view of the world to a "Talent 2.0" view:

HR 1.0	Talent 2.0
"Doing"	Designing and Measuring
Reactive Activity	Thoughtful "What if"
Expense Mentality	Investment Thinking
Culture of Competition	Collaboration
Employee Satisfaction	Customer Impact of Employee Engagement
"Equal"	"Fair"

Going forward, HR executives will require new capabilities and knowledge across three areas of leadership to meet the challenge of the expanded role.

Program Features

The HR LDP provides a unique development experience for senior HR leaders - focused on future skills - through an intensive, modular, blended-delivery program over the course of six months.

Program features include:

• A personal competency assessment of each participant's leadership strengths and weaknesses, using our proprietary HR Competency Model. This assessment provides a basis for individual feedback and program planning, allowing us to highlight areas for specific focus during the program.
• A personal curriculum designed specifically for each participant with assignments chosen based on the results of the competency assessment.
• Three workshops, each focused on specific knowledge, skills, attributes, and values required for future HR leadership.
• Teleconferences on topics of interest to participants.
• Regular contact with program staff.
• Access to world-class instructors.
• Network of peers from other premier corporations.
• One-on-one working sessions with an Executive Coach matched to each participant.
• Access to high-quality, online, management development and performance support material offered by Harvard Business School Publishing.

• Click here for the HR LDP Brochure

Program Leaders

The HR Leadership Development Program's Executive Director is Tamara J. Erickson.  Tammy is a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on the changing workforce - on the shifting relationship between individuals and organizations - and on enhancing workforce productivity.  She and colleagues have conducted extensive research on a wide range of issues affecting organizations today, including innovation, collaboration, engagement, and generational differences.

Joe Grochowski is the Program's Director. His primary responsibilities include course design and development and overseeing the program's overall operations.  Joe has extensive research and executive education experience having worked with a number of senior HR executives from the Fortune 500.  He has led HR best practice forums and produced original human capital research.  Joe holds a B.S. in Psychology from Penn State University and a Master's degree in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.

Stephanne Ebsen is the Program's Coordinator.

Previously Featured Instructors

John Boudreau - Professor, USC Marshall School of Business. Dr. Boudreau conducts breakthrough research on the bridge between superior human capital, talent and sustainable competitive advantage.  He is the leading expert in helping companies maximize their employees' effectiveness by quantifying the strategic bottom-line impact of superior people and human capital strategies. Working papers.

Jay Conger - Professor, Claremont McKenna College. BusinessWeek labels Jay Conger "#5 of the world's top ten management educators and the best business school professor to teach leadership to executives." Very few speakers offer the breadth of experience and depth of knowledge and insight on management, leadership and leadership development as Dr. Jay Conger.

Lynda Gratton - Professor, London Business School. Dr Lynda Gratton, named one of the top 50 strategic thinkers in the world, is considered one of the world's authorities on people in organizations and actively advises companies across the world.  In 2007 Lynda launched the Hot Spots Movement with a mission to bring innovation and energy to corporations. Read about the Hot Spots Movement.

Nancy Koehn - Professor, Harvard Business School. Dr. Koehn is one of the most dynamic educators of our time -- she currently teaches one of the most popular electives at HBS and has been voted by the students as one of the two most Outstanding Professors in the elective curriculum. Her research focuses on branding and its role in entrepreneurship, leadership, and connecting with customers.

Andrew McAfee - Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School. Dr. McAfee is a leading expert on the impact of Information Technology (IT) on businesses and their leaders. His research investigates how managers can most effectively select, implement, and use Enterprise 2.0 Information Technology to achieve business goals. Read Andy's blog.

Blythe McGarvie - Former CFO at Fortune 500 firms and current member of the board of directors of several major corporations. Blythe McGarvie serves on the boards of Accenture, Pepsi Bottling Group, St. Paul Travelers, Lafarge NA, Viacom, and Wawa. She is the author of Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor, the Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life and speaks worldwide to business and academic audiences on the implications of financial insight on leadership, globalization, and business strategy.

What Our Participants Say

"The HR Leadership Development Program always brings in the best-in-class thought leaders for all their workshops. The course instructors really stretched my thinking and helped me to translate new ideas into practice in my own organization. Their program provides a great forum to apply what you learn during the program and experiment in your own organization which I find so important in a rapidly changing business environment." Reg Swamy - VP Human Resources, Wealth Management at TD Bank Financial Group "The HR Leadership Development Program provides the Human Resources leader with a world-class offering that incorporates the three most critical components of professional learning. Subject matter experts and industry recognized thought leaders discussing a variety of leading-edge topics; an extraordinary opportunity to network and build lasting relationships with the best and brightest the Human Resources profession has to offer; and an exceptional learning experience, which extends the value of the investment well beyond the class or course itself." George A. Hall - SVP Information Resources Human Resources at Marriott International "I really enjoyed participating in the HR Leadership Development Program because I was able to build relationships with a group of true peers from some of the world's best-known companies.  I appreciate how the program is designed to provide numerous opportunities to engage with and learn from peers because we all face similar organizational challenges.  Whether it was the small group breakout sessions or the informal networking opportunities, this program really provided me with a unique opportunity to learn from senior leaders across a wide range of industries. In fact, I learned just as much from my fellow participants as the instructors." Linda W. Marquess - Human Resources Manager, Corporate Marketing & Sales at DuPont "I found the program content to be strategically stimulating - a bit of a think tank experience. The thought leadership provided by the workshop instructors, particularly around the impact of multi-generation and new-generation workforce, as well as the thoughts around what our organizations may need to do and be in the future to support that, has had a powerful influence on me as a leader and Human Resources practitioner. The experience also led to some broader thought and behavior changes within our company that are still alive and evolving." Senior HR Executive - Fortune 500 Restaurant Company

Personal curricula and other on-demand learning tools will be mailed to participants monthly throughout the program.

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