In Demand Topics

Too many organizations view Talent Management/HR as a “Cost Center.” For over 30 years, Dr. Denis Cauvier has advocated that HR needs to be seen and held accountable as a “Profit Center.” Today’s hyper competitive and disruptive business environment requires an agile workforce to survive let alone succeed. To accomplish this business owners, senior leaders and talent managers need to change their focus from spending money on Talent Management and instead start making strategic investments. When people think in terms of investments, they expect certain returns from these investments. Talent Management is no different. Each investment needs to be analyzed to consider the business case rationale before proceeding, and then measured to determine the actual contribution made to the bottom line. Many case examples from Dr. Cauvier’s international consulting practice will showcase specific Talent Management solutions and the ROI generated and templates to facilitate the implementation of Dr. Cauvier’s concepts.

One of the realities of life is having to confront adversity. Crisis is an amplifier that brings out either the best or the worst in humans. This powerful presentation will cover the five fundamental qualities of resilient leadership that distinguish successful leaders as they guide their teams during the COVID-19 crisis (and beyond). Through embracing change, adaptability and by understanding and applying Dr. Cauvier’s “Inner STRENGTH” Model leaders will develop mental toughness within themselves and their teammates.

Almost overnight, the Pandemic restrictions requiring isolation as the “new normal” for hundreds of millions of workers organizations were forced into the remote worker model. This has come with a host of challenges impacting morale, stress and mental health issues, productivity work/life balance, as well as tectonic shifts in corporate culture. In this practical presentation Dr. Cauvier will show how organizations can leverage technology to increase individual and team development, deliver powerful virtual coaching, mentoring and performance feedback discussions, while enhancing relationships and reinforcing corporate culture across remote teams.

A recent Towers Perrin Global workforce study of 90,000 respondents showed; 21% of employees are engaged, 32% neutral and 47% of employees are disengaged! Highly engaged employees outperform, learn quicker, stay longer than all other employees by a very large factor. Dr. Cauvier will answer the ‘all important question’ of “what are the low cost, proven ways to highly engage our people?”

Having a large number of high-quality applicants within a low budget is the hallmark of a highly effective recruiting campaign. Focus points range from; what are the best recruitment messages, which recruiting channels yield the best results to “outside the box” recruiting campaigns. Having many candidates apply for your job opening is not enough. Employers must be able to quickly and accurately assess each candidate’s core competencies, character, attitudes and overall fit with your organization in order to fully yield the best results. Dr. Cauvier has personally conducted over 2,700 selection interviews and has coached tens of thousands of people on his proven methods.

Is not an overstatement to say that the rate of change within the business environment can occur at a dizzying rate. Agile organizations realize that the real challenge is often less about the change and more about the introduction and management of the change. Change management is a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state, to obtain a strategic advantage while fulfilling or implementing a vision and strategy. Dr. Cauvier will share his step-by-step process aimed at empowering employees to accept and embrace changes in their current environment.

For almost 30 years as a trainer, speaker and consultant Dr. Denis Cauvier has researched the best practices to attract, develop and retain the best people. He has distilled all of the insights and lessons learned into what he calls The FACTS of Engaging & Retaining Great People. The following is a visual overview of the five most important factors that people are seeking in their ideal employer.

• Flexibility & autonomy of work arrangements.
• Appreciation & recognition.
• Challenging & Interesting work.
• Trusting relationships.
• Salary, benefits & bonuses.

Customer-centricity calls for a comprehensive cultural shift within an organization, and that it is hard to achieve for precisely this reason. Since a change of this nature can take years to set in, it needs the stewardship of senior management to ensure that it does not lose direction or momentum midway. This session will focus on the specific do’s and don’ts of moving an organization towards delivering true customer centric service.

Coaching is a foundational leadership skill that is required in order to have a peak performing team. Coaching is more than creating winning teams—it’s also about positively changing lives. This workshop training shares tactics and strategies that will enable both coaches and those receiving coaching to move towards their potential and ultimately enhance corporate performance. 

This program focuses on the notion of “Coachable” because it embodies the two critical elements of every successful coach: firstly, they need to be coachable themselves, and secondly, they must have the necessary coaching skills to be able to bring out the best in their people.

This program covers the following:

• How coaching drives corporate success
• Being coachable so you can achieve your potential
• Why people resist change and how to overcome this 
• Being able to coach others to get them on a fast track to their goals
• Chameleon Coaching
• Coach Approach to creating positive team change
• Building trust based coaching relationships

Over the past two years, organizations have had to tackle health and wellness, economic uncertainty, as well as social equity and inclusion. The future of work will be fundamentally different from what we knew in the recent past. This session will delve into international best practices and emerging trends for the workplace of the future and how HR leaders can harness to create more diverse and inclusive teams that will provide a strategic advantage to the organization. 

How do you lead a team that’s combining office and remote work? Some old rules don’t apply: HR needs to consider these essentials for managing in the hybrid work era.

• How to avoid the most common pitfalls.
• Five essential leadership traits for the hybrid workplace.
• Learn what highly successful hybrid teams do differently and to implement these strategies into your organization.

The Pandemic has caused “the great economic reset” and its impact on workplaces and the workforce in general has been massive.  Organizations need savvy HR professionals to understand and be able to implement international best practices concerning corporate culture shifts and the new leadership core competencies required to survive let alone thrive in today’s turbulent economy.