UCLA HARRT

Senior Round Table: "Rethinking the Performance Appraisal Process"
2012-09-18 15:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker:
Wayne Cascio
Robert H. Reynolds Distinguished Chair in Global Leadership
Univ. of Colorado.

Summary:
Performance Management is a topic of importance as more emphasis is being placed on growth and competitiveness. A poll of 700 business leaders in 2009 revealed that 92 percent recognize that superior talent provides a competitive advantage. Yet, “60 percent of workers say reviews don’t do anything to help their future performance.” On September 18, HARRT and its distinguished speakers and discussants will examine both sides of the dialogue as to whether and under what circumstances, performance appraisals can be an integral part of high performance culture and under what circumstances this method falls short.
Wayne F. Cascio, who holds the Robert H. Reynolds Chair in Global Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver, is a recognized and influential scholar and writer in the field of Human Resource Management. Professor Cascio will take a practical approach to what steps can be taken to make the performance-management process more relevant and acceptable to the individuals who will be affected by it. As our distinguished speaker, he will cover how to best fit performance management to the strategic direction of the business, who should be involved in the evaluation process, how they should be trained and what an effective performance management process looks like in connection with the results of a pre-survey of HARRT members covering both the technical and interpersonal aspects of the performance management process.
A panel of our members—Cozette Hart and Joyce Rowland—will present the highlights of the survey results on performance management and evaluation, sharing their experiences, issues and approaches to performance management given the cultures of their organizations and the composition of their workforces to stimulate small group discussion among our members, faculty and guests.

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Senior Round Table: "The Role of HR Leaders in Organizational Change"
2012-05-23 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers:
Patrick Wright Ph.D.
Richard Antoine
David Lewin

Summary:
The May 23 Round Table brings academic and practitioner thought leaders together to discuss the issues surrounding the role of HR leaders in organizational change. Featuring Dr. Patrick Wright from Cornell will report the results of interviews with a number of CHRO officers regarding the different types of strategic change, as well as the levers, obstacles, and strategies for implementing strategic change. Dick Antoine, President of the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR) will draw his experience with companies represented by the NAHR Fellows and his experience as Chief Global HR Officer for Procter & Gamble.
A panel of two of our distinguished members, Alan Kaye, EVP and CHRO at Mattel, Inc. and Patricia Summers, SVP of HR at Jacobs Engineering Group will share their experiences and respond to what is presented by our academic thought leaders.

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Senior Round Table: "Developing Brand Ideals to Inspire and Motivate Employees"
2012-02-15 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker:
Sanjay Sood
Associate Professor of Marketing
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Summary:
Professor of Marketing Sanjay Sood will conduct an interactive session on how business depends on meeting market demands, understanding the customer and meeting their needs for business success. Professor Sood will specifically focus on brand ideals to inspire and motivate employees. A brand ideal is the “higher purpose” or main reason why a brand exists. Many companies focus their brand on consumers via advertising campaigns. The strongest brands, however, create an ideal that works from the inside-out–the ideals motivate employees and consumers with a compelling vision. These companies align the corporate culture, incentives, and processes to fit the brand ideal. According to a recent study, companies with strong brand idealssignificantly outperformed the S&P500 over a ten year period.how managing external customersimpacts the organization’s operating and human resource management practices.

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2011 Annual Sr. Executive Retreat
2011-11-11 13:00 - 2011-11-13 12:00 | 4 Seasons Resort, 1260 Channel Dr, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
How Neuroscience and Globalization are Transforming HR
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Robert Bilder
Tennenbaum Family Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehaviroal Sciences and Psychology, Director, Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity
Semel Institute, UCLA
Tamara Erickson
Managing Director, McKinsey Award-winning author
Moxie Insight, Inc.
Featured Panelists:
David Goodrich
Vice President of Talent Management
Parsons Corporation
David Lewin
Niel H. Jacoby Professor of Management
HARRT Co-Chair
Michael Roberts
Special Counsel for Roll Global, Adjunct Professor
UCLA School of Law
Martin Cozyn
Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Mark Masten
Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing
Paramount Farms International
Bhagwan Chowdhry
Professor of Finance and Faculty Director, Master of Financial Engineering
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
Chris Erickson
Professor and Sr. Associate Dean
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
Archie Kleingartner
Professor Emeritus
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, Founding Dean, School of Public Affairs, HARRT Founder and Chair Emeritus
Stan Duncan
Senior EVP and Global Head of Management & Org Development
Westfield Corporation
Steve Milovich
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Disney/ABC Television Group
Joyce Rowland
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Sempra

Senior Round Table: "Persuasion at Work: How to Win Support for Your Ideas, Proposals and Initiatives"
2011-05-25 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker
Noah Goldstein

HR & Organizational Behavior
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management

Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. As leaders, it is essential be persuasive. This session will provide insights into strategies and tactics for improving responsiveness to your arguments, requests and agendas. We will learn the scientific principles behind the art of persuasiveness drawing largely from the psychological fundamentals of persuasive communication. While learning practical persuasion tactics and how to apply them in a variety of situations, HARRT members will also learn about common persuasion mistakes and how to avoid them.
In advance of this meeting we ask you to reflect on initiatives that you have proposed or situations in which you have tried to persuade others to support a proposal. So that we have a sense of the issues most relevant to you, we ask that you send a brief description in advance, if you can. This information will be treated as confidential and used for designing the session content and group exercise. We will have a group discussion exercise in which you will have an opportunity to apply some of the principles presented. Please come prepared to discuss one or two situations in which you can apply the new knowledge you have:
1) One can be something you want to propose for the future and how you can change your strategy and content to be more persuasive.
2) an alternative is to reflect on something you have proposed in the past and how it could have been changed to be more persuasive.

Senior Round Table: "Creating a High Engagement Organization: A Practical Approach for Employees, Managers and Executives"
2011-03-02 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Facilitators
Linda Newton
Executive Director
HARRT
Lucy Wander-Perna
HARRT Executive Committee
Featured Speaker
Christopher Rice
President and CEO
BlessingWhite

Employee engagement is on more boardroom agendas than ever before, but only a few organizations have completed the process with success stories worth sharing or leveraging. This session takes a fresh look at this important business issue for all companies looking to engage, retain and empower their workforces. It introduces the key findings from the recently published 2011 Employee Engagement Report and builds on the information presented during our Annual Retreat last fall. Through an interactive discussion, members will learn how to influence and harness discretionary contributions from employees by focusing on five key areas and understanding how each level of the organization can promote engagement.
BlessingWhite CEO Christopher Rice and Facilitator Sheridan Celmer will lead an interactive forum to provide: The business case for engagement, a pragmatic model for talking about engagement, the latest global findings on engagement levels and drivers, recommendations for avoiding five common pitfalls to successful engagement initiatives, tangible actions for making engagement a shared responsibility across the workforce and an ongoing priority, in addition to our focus on increasing engagement levels across your organization, the session will provide insights into maintaining your personal engagemement as a leader. For research conducted by BlessingWhite on engagement and other topics, please follow this link: http://blessingwhite.com/Research.asp.

Senior Round Table: “Human Capital Strategy: Integrating Business and Human Capital Priorities"
2011-02-15 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers
Ian V. Ziskin
President
EXec EXcel Group, LLC

The recent economic recession has had a profound impact on the world and the way we govern, do business and manage our resources. Rising government deficits add additional stress to the economic environment. Now, more than ever, business and public sectors need to find ways to improve performance through sound strategies, processes and management practices. The challenge for HR leaders is to understand the 3 to 5 most critical business challenges and the actions that need to be taken to address them. A clear and actionable human capital strategy is essential. Oftentimes, critical business challenges are not clearly defined. HR leaders need to have confidence they are asking the correct strategic questions regarding human capital and be able to measure the results.
Ian Ziskin, President, EXec EXcel Group and former Chief HR and Administrative Officer at Northrop Grumman will lead HARRT members in an interactive discussion to examine their assumptions about their own businesses and the new challenges and trends imposed by the environment. Using a framework to guide the process, HARRT members will have an opportunity to develop and refine a crisp and appropriate human capital strategy for their businesses that focuses on the following five dimensions:

· Manage Talent
· Develop Leaders
· Drive Performance
· Build HR Excellence
· Harmonize Systems & Processes

2010 Annual Sr. Executive Retreat
2010-11-11 13:00 - 2010-11-13 12:00 | 4 Seasons Resort, 1260 Channel Dr, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
“Toward a New HR? Perspectives on a Changing Role”

Featured Speakers:
Bob Johansen
Distinguished Fellow
Institute for the Future
Michael Haffenden
Co-Founder and Director
Corporate Research Forum
Graham Prentice
Associate
Corporate Research Forum
Ed Leamer
Chauncy J, Professor of Management
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
David Lewin, Ph.D
Neil H Jacoby Chair in Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Douglas Klein
President
Sirota Survey Intelligence
Featured Panelists:
Stan Duncan
Senior Executive VP, Human Resources and Global Head of Talent Management & Org Development
Westfield Corporation
George Rose
Executive VP, Worldwide People and Org
Sony Pictures Entertainment
John Kelly
Senior VP, Human Resources
Capital Group

Summary:
Challenged by a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, this session will focus on new opportunities where volatility can be turned into vision, uncertainty into understanding, complexity into clarity and ambiguity into agility.

Senior Round Table: “Challenges for Health Care and Higher Education in the New Normal”
2010-09-29 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker
Gene D. Block
Chancellor
UCLA

Changes in the economy and public policy continue to highlight challenges for the “New Normal. The recession has had a far reaching impact on local and global markets and on public institutions. Reduced tax dollars have exacerbated the budget deficit in California and the public university system, responsible for educating the workforce of the future. These changes along with demographic shifts are reshaping the higher education landscape. UCLA and other public universities in California have had to face these challenges and make adjustments while preserving their mandate to educate, conduct research and serve the greater community. Likewise the Health Care Reform Legislation passed by Congress in March of this year poses challenges for employers who have to interpret and implement these changes as health care costs continue to escalate.
Chancellor Gene D. Block will address the challenges faced by public universities and how UCLA plans to serve its mission of education, research and community service to enhance quality of life for Californians while adapting to a new funding model.
A panel of members and health care experts will share programs they have implemented at their organizations to improve outcomes for quality health care for their employees and reduce costs. Diane Shapiro at Boeing will share the basic principles of “The Medical Home” program to address issues for chronically ill employees, “Best Doctors” and “Boeing on the Move.” Ken Kahrs from NBC Universal will discuss contrasting approaches to health benefits and the impact on employee satisfaction, Tanya Benenson, NBCU Medical Director will share the impact of their health clinics and wellness programs to give patients the kind of care they are not getting elsewhere. Leslie A Margolin, President and CEO of Partners Transforming Health will share strategies for how health care costs can be reduced and address insurer, provider, customer and consumer issues.

Senior Round Table: "Strategy: New or Normal?"
2010-05-12 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers
John de Figueiredo, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Professor of Law
UCLA Anderson School of Management

John de Figueiredo’s primary fields of research are competitive strategy, political and legal strategy, law and economics, and the management of innovation. His research in “non-market” strategy examines how firms use political influence, regulatory lobbying, and strategic litigation to enhance competitive performance. His current work in the field has examined corporate legislative and regulatory lobbying behavior in telecommunications, health care, and other high technology industries. De Figueiredo’s research on competitive strategy and innovation focus on long-term competitive advantage, technology strategy, and organizational change. His papers have appeared in leading economics, management, and law journals.
Prior to joining the UCLA Anderson School, Professor de Figueiredo was on the faculties of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He was also the Olin Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard Law School and is currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. De Figueiredo has taught MBA students, Ph.D. students, and executives in a variety of different programs. His main teaching responsibility has been the core MBA Strategic Management course, and he has developed and taught an MBA elective course on corporate non-market strategy, introducing techniques to company executives on managing the media, activists, government, and international bodies to achieve the objectives of the corporation. He also teaches competitive strategy, non-market strategy, technology strategy, corporate governance, and organizational change at the senior executive and board of directors level. He won the Excellence in Teaching Award for MBA teaching while at MIT, and has won four teaching awards in his four years on the UCLA faculty.
Prior to joining academia, Professor de Figueiredo was a strategic management consultant at Monitor Company for a number of years, where he served on a team of consultants that started the company’s Spanish practice and Madrid office.

Senior Round Table: "Creative Problem Solving in Challenging Times"
2010-02-11 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers
Iris Firstenberg, Ph.D
Associate Adjunct Professor
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Introduction and comments by Professor David Lewin

A great leader helps keep a team engaged and energized when the pressure is high. In times of great uncertainty and rapid change, the challenge to maintain a sense of focus, drive, and enthusiasm requires unique efforts. We will discuss how to inspire and motivate people so that even in difficult times, people can accomplish extraordinary results. We will also discuss strategies for tapping the human potential for creative thinking in the workplace as a way of dealing with uncertainty and leading change in difficult times.
Iris Firstenberg, Associate Adjunct Professor at the Anderson Graduate School of Management, will discuss how a culture of innovation rapidly recognizes change and adapts with new learning and action. Successful organizations operate on the edge of chaos and embrace risk, error, and ambiguity as a way of life while practicing strategies that reduce the need for doing, undoing, and redoing. This session provides provocative ideas and tools to give participants the adaptive capacity to work creatively with change and uncertainty and adapt more quickly to emerging opportunities.
Iris will lead an interactive session on setting the stage for creative thinking which focuses on the constraints that inhibit our ability to think with flexibility and delivers powerful thinking strategies that expand possibilities and prepares leaders to meet new challenges and create better opportunities as the future unfolds. Through group discussion and conversation we will generate actionable ideas for participants to take back to their organizations.
