Several times each year, The Millennium Group International, LLC (TMG) sponsors complimentary sessions where we highlight or share a "taste" of timely topics targeted at building organizational capacity. These sessions introduce you to TMG and how we can assist your organization.

Next Taste Test 

SAVE THE DATE!

Taste a timely topic with best practices from subject matter experts. 

Date: February 17, 2009
Location: The Tower Club (8000 Towers Crescent Dr, Vienna, VA, 17th Floor)
Time: 7:30 am to 10:30 am (7:30-8:00 - breakfast & networking; program starts promptly at 8 am)

A continental breakfast will be served and there is no cost to attend. Seating is limited so register early.

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Last Taste Test

September 23, 2008    

Strategy + Implementation

TMG entered our 10th year of Taste Test mini-seminars by presenting three programs that are critical to gaining a competitive edge, growing the bottom line, and building an organization capable of sustained growth.  This is the secret to gaining and maintaining a Strategic Advantage.

Strategy Development + Workforce Planning + Learning and Knowledge Management = Strategic Advantage

Retooling to Claim the Strategic Advantage

Simplified Strategic Planning
Taking Control, Involving Employees and Linking Systems
 
It is required at the highest levels of an organization right down to the department head.  Unless a strategy is in place, activities cannot be aligned to accomplish a common goal.  If you are familiar with the old adage "if you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there," you know that strategic direction is critical for success, especially in today's economic climate. 

• Thinking strategically - and why it is important at all levels
• Applying strategy throughout the organization
• Establishing measures to ensure outcomes

Joe Raible, TMG Senior Consultant, has over 25 years of diverse experience, education, and training in the fields of Organizational Design and Development and Human Resource Management and Development.  Within those fields he has provided Research, Analysis, Design, Development, Training and Evaluation services to private, non-profit and public sector organizations.  His services have included the delivery of training and technical assistance in each area of organizational improvement addressed by the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria: Leadership, Strategic Planning, Customer and Market Focus, Measurement and Analysis, Workforce Focus, and Process Management.  
 

Strategic Workforce Planning
 Aligning Human Capital with Business  Direction

Once you know where you want to go, you need to make sure you have the "tools" to get there.  Your most valuable asset is your people.  Like any other asset (money, equipment, etc.), you must make absolutely sure that you have the right assets, in the right place, at the right time to achieve your organizational mission.  There is a method to planning a workforce that will provide maximum efficiency at a minimal cost.

• Deploying the right people with the right skills, at the right time, at the right cost
• Determining the proper skills required at all levels to achieve the organization's mission
• Planning for growth and change within the organization

Ronald Beckwith, Ph.D., TMG Senior Consultant has over twenty years of HR leadership experience with focused expertise in staffing and retention, workforce planning, training and development, and workplace diversity. Dr. Beckwith developed and led enterprise-wide Workforce Planning initiatives that projected future talent needs, e.g., skill supply-demand gaps, in response to a rapidly aging corporate workforce and tight labor markets for one of the largest integrated energy companies in the US.  He also developed long-term human capital plans including a new Workforce Planning strategy group to manage on-going projections and talent management solutions that saved $2 million in annual staffing costs, avoiding $62 million human asset investment exposure, and avoided $82 million in projected turnover cost in 2007-2012.

Managing and Delivering Learning & Knowledge
When and Where it is Needed

Operating at peak capacity requires providing the knowledge people need, when they need it.  It is the key to competitive advantage in today's rapidly-changing environment.  The ability to hold all employees accountable for daily tasks that achieve the organizational mission lays the foundation for continuous improvement.  Implementing a learning and knowledge management program allows management at all levels to ensure that all activities are contributing to the bottom line.

• Providing the knowledge people need, when they need it
• Managing performance through human capital development
• Creating a sustainable competitive advantage through learning and knowledge management  

Valerie Whitcomb, MBA, TMG Director of Learning & Knowledge Management, has over 20 years of experience with workforce training and development programs, at a variety of levels, and with delivering the related improvements in operational efficiencies.  Her skills encompasses developing and delivering blended learning curriculum which includes classroom delivery, online learning and on-the job training.  Her methodology encompasses all aspects of training development including processes, skills, cross training, development and compliance.  She recently published and presented a paper at the Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT) annual conference on Learning Technologies.  The paper discusses the entire process of sourcing and implementing a Learning Management System. 

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Comments from the last Taste Test:

"The Taste Test delivered on its promise....a taste of three important topics! Great job!"

"The material and speaker credentials were top notch. "

"I appreciated that real, usable information was shared and that it wasn't just a sales pitch."

"You provided good networking opportunities and had three speakers talk about important subjects. "

"The topics chosen were very relevant and useful. The presentations were excellent."