Mastering Talent Management: Hiring, Engaging, and Rewarding A+ Talent

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Key Insights and Takeaways

Wharton’s Mastering Talent Management: Hiring, Engaging, and Rewarding A+ Talent program gives you the knowledge you need to hire top talent and imparts tried-and-true strategies you can use to stay ahead of the curve, all in a convenient online format. This six-week program will enable you to:

  • Recognize the foundational components of an effective hiring process

  • Identify the criteria for hiring A+ talent through effective interviewing, cutting edge technologies, internal hiring, and attracting a strong, diverse pool of candidates

  • Use methods, strategies, and tools to increase employee engagement

  • Leverage people analytics to transform performance management and avoid common mistakes in talent evaluation

  • Learn frameworks to design strategic incentive and reward programs that address performance challenges in the modern workplace, and recognize the power of incentives to communicate messages about your employer brand

  • Discover strategies that promote diversity and eliminate bias in hiring, and learn innovative ways to attract diverse candidates

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Innovative Frameworks

Wharton believes in generating big ideas, supporting them with incisive analysis, and transforming them into ingenious solutions that work. Not only do we equip you with advanced frameworks to help you recruit, retain, and reward A+ talent — we guide you as you put them into practice. In this program, you will get hands-on experience with a number of tools, including:

Performance Evaluation Pyramid Traditional performance management focuses on individual outcomes, often exclusively. This framework, developed by Wharton’s own Dr. Cade Massey, offers a new perspective of how performance management should be approached and how it can impact or influence the outcomes of an organization.

Program Experience

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Live Faculty Forum

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Frameworks

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Polls

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Capstone Project
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Try-It Activities

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Strategy Playbook

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Knowledge Checks

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Industry Examples

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Discussions

Program Topics

Using a progressive approach, each session builds on the last, culminating in a universal understanding of how to connect with talent across each phase of the employment cycle in order to maximize employee commitment and realize a competitive advantage.

Industry Examples

Explore talent strategy using examples from world-class brands. Which were successful, and which didn't quite measure up? Consider the experiences of renowned organizations such as Google, Safelite, GE, and Amazon, and use them as a source for supplemental study once the program is complete.

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Google

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Safelite

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General Electric

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Amazon

Program Faculty

Faculty Member Matthew Bidwell, PhD
MATTHEW BIDWELL, PHD

Professor of Management, the Wharton School; Faculty Co-Director, Wharton People Analytics Initiative

Matthew Bidwell's research employs people analytics to examine career patterns and staffing in the new economy. He has focused on how organizations balance internal mobility a...

Faculty Member Cade Massey, PhD
CADE MASSEY, PHD

Practice Professor, Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School; Faculty Co-Director, Wharton People Analytics Initiative

The focus of Cade Massey’s research is judgment under uncertainty—how, and how well, people foresee what will happen in the future. His work has appeared in leading psychology...

Faculty Member Iwan Barankay, PhD
IWAN BARANKAY, PHD

Associate Professor of Management; Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, The Wharton School

Iwan Barankay is a behavioral economist and Associate Professor in Wharton’s Management Department, where he studies how to design monetary and non-monetary incentives to incr...

Certificate

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the program, you will earn a digital certificate of completion from the Wharton School.

Note: After successful completion of the online program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of the Wharton School.

FAQs

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