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Press
Release: July 1, 2011
Contact:
jspina@rhsmith.umd.edu
The Center for Leadership, Innovation
and Change (CLIC), at the Robert H. Smith School of
Business,
University
of Maryland
College Park,
recently introduced a new project in
Europe. At a meeting in
Zurich,
sponsored by Hilton Worldwide,
executives from twenty companies
participated in a session designed
to introduce and explain the
benefits and services of
joining CLIC’s Talent
Management Network(TMN). Olivier
Harnisch, Area
V.P.
of Northern
& Central
Europe; and Ben
Bengougam, V.P. Human Resources
Europe Operations were the key
Hilton executives involved in the
planning of the event.
The session was led by Dr. Jim Spina from CLIC and
joined by Lori J. Spina, president
of the Spina Network along with
Carlton Becker and Edwin Bowman,
principals of the BowmanBecker
Consultancy. The keynote speaker was Sabine Lohri
from Hilton’s Regional Human Resources Division of Northern
and Central Europe. Lohri
explained how Hilton’s system for recruiting and retaining
talent was developed and how it successfully operates in
Europe. The Hilton system has all of the key
elements of a first class program and is regarded as an
example for other companies to emulate.
Additional presentations on talent
management and multi-generational challenges were made by
Carlton Becker and Edwin Bowman. In addition, BowmanBecker
shared a model for successful talent management networking
based on their work with Japanese companies in the U.S.
CLIC, and its partners, have been
developing the TMN in both the New York
City and Washington, D.C.
Areas. To date, three organizational meetings have been held
in addition to the session in
Switzerland.
The main
purpose of the TMN is to bring company HR executives
together two or three times a year to exchange information
on best practices for talent management and provide a forum
to introduce cutting edge research from CLIC on the subject.
Drs. Susan Taylor, Kay Bartol and Paul Tesluk have been
instrumental in the formulation of the TMN at the
University
of Maryland’s Smith
School of Business in
College Park. The TMN is a joint
venture of CLIC, The Spina Network, Inc. and BowmanBecker
Consultancy, LLC.
The next meeting of the TMN is
scheduled for September 22-23, 2011 in
College Park at the Smith School.
For information and registration
details please email
consultspina@aol.com.
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