Leadership Excellence Award Winners have been announced recognizing the top practices in Leadership Development globally
Winners Announced for the 2016 Leadership Excellence Awards recognizing exceptional Leadership Development Programs in the Individual Category
LEAD2016 at Nashville, TN – Distinguished recipients of the Leadership Excellence Awards for 2016 were named for outstanding achievements in leadership development and programs in the areas of Education, Corporate, and Individuals at the LEAD2016 event being held at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. The prestigious Leadership Awards salute the world’s top leadership practitioners and programs and highlight their roles in developing their most important asset – their people.
For more than 33 years, Leadership Excellence, now a part of HR.com, has identified and recognized the top leadership organizations and their strategies and solutions in a yearly ranking by appropriate category. This year, the ranking process and award categories were streamlined and updated to better define the leadership efforts nominated.
TalentGuard CEO, Linda Ginac was recognized as a winner of the Top Corporate Leader Award – Over 35. “I am honored to be recognized as a winner of the Top Corporate Leader Award. I am very thankful for everyone who have supported, challenged, and elevated me on this journey,” said Ms. Ginac.
“Effective leadership development programs and activities are a must in today’s business. Without leadership, all other resources are ineffective, whether you are operating a non-profit, educational institution, government department, small business, or a large corporation. Programs and individuals recognized in the Leadership Excellence Awards program have made significant contributions developing leaders,” stated Debbie McGrath, CEO of HR.com.
This year’s award recipients were selected based on both an application or nomination process, reviewed by HR.com’s expert leadership panel, as well as feedback from the program’s participants. The voting was promoted by the nominees as well as through social media campaigns over the course of the nomination period.
About LEAD2016
LEAD2016 is a 2-day leadership forum designed to inspire leadership in people from all walks of life, live simulcast to hundreds of remote host sites internationally. The event brings top thought leaders and the world’s best leadership practices into any organization and communities and was February 3rd and 4th, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
About TalentGuard, Inc.
TalentGuard is a global provider of competency-based talent management solutions delivered as Software-as-a-Service. Our cloud-based software suite is unmatched in it’s ability to engage and retain employees. Our integrated technology helps organizations automate performance management, 360 Degree Feedback, Career Pathing, Succession planning, individual Development Planning and Certification tracking. TalentGuard also helps improve business outcomes with our extended network of credentialed career coaches, training programs and content.
Through it’s network of trusted integration partners, TalentGuard is seamlessly integrated with the broader HCM ecosystem including HRIS, Applicant Tracking, Compensation Management and Learning Management. For more information visit www.talentguard.com.
The TalentGuard Suite:
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT – Fosters an efficient and focused business process that provides qualitative and quantitative insight during the performance conversation, delivers agile goal setting and supports ongoing feedback, coaching and development to ensure an employer’s workforce is aligning and adapting to business goals.
COMPENSATION PLANNING – Make informed decisions throughout the salary and bonus review process with scenario plans, benchmarks and validation of decisions. Leaders have immediate visibility and transparency to salary, bonus, incentive stock and other data.
CAREER PATHING – Enables employers to offer a structured career development process to support career growth. Our software provides employees with tools to build out meaningful career paths based on their aspirations and interests, review skill gaps against future jobs and engage in relevant learning experiences that proactively prepares them for the next role.
360 DEGREE FEEDBACK – Assess employee skills to better understand skills, gaps and talent readiness as company grow and adapt future challenges. Our tool gathers and analyzes objective multi-rater feedback to help employers make better people development decisions.
SUCCESSION PLANNING – Facilitates organizations in the identification and development of internal people with the potential to fill key leadership positions in the company. This solution helps companies identify critical roles, manage the talent pipeline and search for talent based on detailed criteria to ensure the right talent are in the right roles.
DEVELOPMENT PLANNING – Provides organizations with a method to manage interactive career development plans. Employees can create and track goals, gain access to learning resources, solicit feedback from stakeholders, and receive coaching for advisors and mentors.
CERTIFICATION TRACKING – Allows companies to manage, track, and report on training and certification efforts. HR can assign mandatory and supplemental training to specific job roles, managers can see when training is required and employees can remain compliant in their role.
COACH MATCH – Enables companies to consistently manage and simplify relationships between employees and coaches to achieve performance improvement, career development or accelerated leadership skills. Coach Match systematically identify coaches that are uniquely qualified based on the employee’s assessed needs or specific search criteria. Companies can track the coaching engagement throughout the relationship to monitor status, see progress and measure impact.
For more information about TalentGuard, contact:
TalentGuard
Anthony Campagnano
TalentGuard, Inc.
Anthony.Campagnano@talentguard.com
512.943.6800 x1487
For more information about LEAD2016, contact:
Debbie McGrath,
Chief Instigator and CEO
dmcgrath@hr.com
877-472-6648
www.HR.com
www.hr.com/leadershipexcellence
