KRISTY SCHOONOVER | Director of Talent and Learning Development, pep

Elevate your HR influence and departmental performance by mastering the "Talent Connect" process. This comprehensive training session unveils a proven methodology for designing, facilitating, and leveraging structured, recurring meetings between HR and departmental leaders. Moving beyond traditional HR check-ins, "Talent Connects" are dynamic platforms for strategic collaboration, ensuring your talent strategy directly fuels business objectives and fosters a proactive approach to developing your organization's most valuable asset: its people.

You'll learn how to transform raw data into actionable insights, identify critical roles and cultivate robust succession pipelines, strategically address performance and development needs, and strengthen the HR-business partnership. We'll cover everything from essential pre-meeting data gathering and agenda setting to facilitating impactful discussions around performance management, career pathing, team well-being, and future readiness (e.g., AI integration).

Join us to acquire the practical tools, templates, and best practices needed to drive leadership readiness, champion continuous growth, and ensure measurable impact on departmental and organizational success.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Discover the strategic power of consistent Talent Connects to elevate HR-Business Partnerships and proactive talent management.
• Master key agenda components and best practices for designing effective Talent Connects that address critical business and talent needs.
• Formulate actionable strategies to translate Talent Connect insights into aligned talent development and measurable departmental performance.