HR Florida Leadership Conference

January 9, 2010 – Orlando, Florida – Rosen Shingle Resort

Innovating Ideas for Diversity and Workforce Readiness Programs

Volusia-Flagler SHRM

February 17, 2010 – Daytona Beach, Florida – Daytona Beach International Airport

Work is Changing. Is the Workforce Ready? Is Leadership Ready?

HR Palm Beach County

June 17, 2010 – Palm Beach Gardens

Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness:  The Leader’s Point of View

Florida Caucus of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals

June 21, 2010 – Boca Raton, Florida – Boca Raton Resort

Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness:  The Leader’s Point of View

Popularity: 6%

The workforce readiness issue is broad and complex. It is not just education’s task, the government’ role, a parent’s duty or the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that current and future workers are capable. It is also a task, role, duty and responsibility of company leadership to recognize and participate in the resolution of issues that can prevent us from having a world class workforce.

On July 21,2009, at the Central Florida Human Resources Association meeting, Kathy Davanzo, SPHR, President of Pelorus Leadership Group, Inc. will lead a review of the trends and information we should be watching as we consider how work will change in our organizations and what that means for recruiting, supervision, leadership, and training as we look at our short and long term skill and knowledge requirement and our ability to meet those requirements.

For more information on this meeting go to www.cfhra.org.

Popularity: 18%

During a recent presentation to a group of HR professional I shared Harriet Hankin’s statement from her book The New Workforce.    She wrote: “There will be a shortage of 40,000 principals by 2005.  Schools are hiring MBAs rather than MAs in Education.” 

My question to the group and my question to you is how might a principal with an MBA differ from a principal with an MA in Education?  How might this different perspective change how the work of education gets done?

Several members of the audience shared that they too are looking at nontraditional applicants for a variety of jobs.  The way work gets done is changing as a result of this.  On the other hand the changes in the way work gets done also allow us to look at nontraditional applicants as the skill sets we require are shifting. A classic chicken or the egg.  

Organizations are working hard to find people who have transferable experiences if not the experiences they traditionally seek.

Is your workplace being effected by nontraditional hires?  How and why?

Popularity: 72%