What sessions are made of

Cutting through the clutter: How to engage employees with ubiquitous and personalised learning experiences

Learners have access to content 24/7. In today’s world, learning is even competing with social platforms to help drive development and growth. In this session, learn about the key advances in the Learning Suite that will help create a ubiquitous, modernised and personal experience for learners.

Key takeaways include:

• What you can do today to prepare for the innovations of tomorrow

• How to maximise adoption of new functionality

Prove your talent development strategy is working with TalentSpace

One of the biggest struggles for talent pros is making sure that what they’re doing is actually working. It can be hard to nail down, but the right tools can make it easier. In this session, learn how you can leverage the tools in TalentSpace to keep your ears on the ground and understand how your people are engaging with your talent development programs.

Key takeaways include:

• Reporting and analytics you should know about in TalentSpace  

• How to leverage Pulse and/or Custom Surveys to measure the impact of your talent programs

Identifying the right skills and content strategies to navigate unprecedented change

We are all experiencing a time of intense change as our employees navigate new normals, our workplaces reckon what "remote" means, and our world processes the impact of a global pandemic. Hear from 3 panelists - Liggy Webb, award winning and bestselling author and thought leader on human resilience, Summer Salomonsen, Head of Cornerstone Studios, and Mark Lamswood, Regional Director for Cornerstone Content, as they discuss these influences and call into sharp view the value of skills and strategies needed to move our business forward.

Key takeaways include:

• The role of skills in times of crisis

• Ways to create a culture that lasts

• Learning strategies that drive it all

Blockchain for HR: Beyond cryptocurrency

Maintaining a common, accurate source of HR data can be a challenge, and that doesn’t include everything else an HR department needs to do with it. Cornerstone’s blockchain functionality will make new data available to enable more effective HR practitioners and more powerful AI. In this session, you’ll learn how this technology will enable faster hiring, reduced time to productivity, more certainty of skills, and a clear development path for employees.

Key takeaways include:

• Why blockchain is a reliable, powerful technology to improve HR data

• When and how HR departments can prepare for blockchain

Maximising Business Impact through training employees, partners, and customers

Over the last two years, Electrolux has offered digital training to customers through Cornerstone’s extended enterprise solution. Join Electrolux to hear how they have combined training data from Cornerstone’s platform with business data to advance their training offering while maximising business impact. Electrolux will also share how they combined Cornerstone playlists and Learner Home with custom solutions to boost gamification and user engagement including tailored leaderboards and landing pages.

Key takeaways include:

• How accessible, comprehensive, and interactive digital training on any device enables retention and extends reach

• How Electrolux uses training to instill competence and confidence in employees, partners, and customers

• How Electrolux uses a dashboard and analytics tool to draw correlation analysis between training and business impact

Embarking on a comprehensive talent development journey

Banca Mediolanum, an Italian bank, insurance and asset management conglomerate, embarked on a talent development journey. While it hasn't always been easy, it's been rewarding. Find out how Banca Mediolanum built a comprehensive user journey with Cornerstone from ATS to Onboarding to Learning and Performance – and even included some of their own ideas and solutions!

Key takeaways include:

• How to effectively integrate the CSOD modules

• How to use inventiveness to leverage the platform's features to meet your business needs

Reinvent yourself, there is no option. Prosegur's success story.

Join Prosegur to understand how they carried out the process of transformation of employee experience. With 170,000 employees in 26 countries, the challenge of standardising employee processes, reducing their most repetitive tasks, and improving their engagement, is very complex.

Key takeaways include:

• The importance of reinventing the workforce to face the future with guarantees, enhancing the specifically human capacities of workers

• The process of defining the employee's journey and the roadmap of transformation projects associated with the stages of their life cycle

Finding the balance between performance management and employee development

Measuring employee performance and potential is an important organisational process, but what comes next is even more important. While performance review processes can be clean cut, employees often are at a loss of where they can go and what to do next to grow their career. How can you turn measurement steps into development opportunities? And how can we enable managers to coach for growth?

Key takeaways include: 

• Building Performance Management to consider the unique needs of employees

• Tools to aid managers in coaching employees for growth and strategic success

• Key functionality to scale the coaching of employees

Assemble the best people for today and tomorrow

Whether you’re actively hiring or pressing pause, it’s imperative to continuously build strong candidate pools that will help you quickly and efficiently fill roles when the time is right. In this session, learn how TalentLink’s new Campaign module helps you nurture and convert the best people with the best skills by creating a consistent and engaging communication strategy that supports a world-class candidate experience.

Key takeaways include:

• How to build a lasting brand with consistent engagement from first touch and beyond

• How to use TalentLink Campaign to send targeted, personalised communications to segmented audiences, like internal or furloughed employees

Beyond the DE&I acronym: Delivering meaningful experiences through diversity, equity and inclusion practices

Diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisations are leaders. Not only are they adaptable and creative, but they are better equipped to hire and retain top talent.

Recent social and economic issues have forced many organisations to look inward and acknowledge that they can do more. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) isn’t a corporate ‘to-do’, it’s understanding the real human experience of people at work and in their lives outside of work.

In this panel discussion, Stacia Garr, Co-founder and Principal Analyst, RedThread Research, will lead an insightful conversation with Crysta Dungee, Director, Diversity & Inclusion for Sodexo, and Noel Hornsberry, Senior Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Cornerstone as they share the key pillars of effective DE&I strategies. Learn how to bridge the gap between the corporate narrative and actionable promise of your DE&I strategy to create meaningful, systemic change.

New ways to extend your talent experience with Cornerstone Edge

Is there any organisation that’s not trying to consolidate their technology stack? The key to longevity with consolidating multiple solutions is a solid infrastructure supporting data management and data flow between multiple systems. Come learn how Cornerstone Edge helps you scale and optimise your talent management solution and realise the potential of your people data through our innovations in integrations, API, and more.

Key takeaways include:

• What to expect with the innovations of today

• How to maximise and prepare for the innovations of tomorrow

Putting privacy in practice in a global world: the new ISO 27701 privacy certification

Data protection is more than appropriate wording in contractual agreements: it impacts and inspires our everyday activities. ISO 27701 further helps us in this journey with the creation of a Privacy Information Management System, or “PIMS”. Sound mysterious? Join us to learn more!

Meeting learners' needs in a changing world and adapting L&D strategies for the future

Join Ikea and Nestle as they share how they leveraged Cornerstone technology to meet employees' learning needs during the Covid-19 pandemic and how they adapted their L&D strategies to plan for the future.

Key takeaways include:

• What learning looked like before Covid-19

• What learning landscape changes were required to address the realities that Covid-19 presented

• How Covid-19 changed the learning culture both now and predictions for the future

• Lessons learned from this experience as well as advice and tips on how organisations can excel both during and after the pandemic

Starting from scratch: Implementing the Cornerstone suite during Covid-19

Join STA Travel to learn about their experience in implementing the full CSOD suite in less than a year, migrating talent management from MS Excel-based to full digital management while dealing with the Covid-19 related challenges and transformation.

Key takeaways include:

• How to successfully transition your HR processes to digital

• How to adapt to change, both for the processes and work from home due to Covid

Optimisation des expériences recrutement en temps de Covid

Clemence présentera comment l’équipe Konica Minolta France a utilisé le temps de confinement pour repenser ses processus de recrutement et son utilisation de Cornerstone afin d’optimiser l’expérience des candidats et le travail des recruteurs. Elle expliquera également comment ce processus a permis de mieux connaitre et utiliser les ressources Cornerstone pour faire monter les administrateurs en compétence.

Build a world-class recruiting program for the new normal

The pandemic has impacted companies in a number of ways. For some companies, recruitment hasn't stopped. Instead, recruitment efforts have been adjusted to adapt to the new normal.

Companies like DHL Latin America are onboarding hundreds of new drivers each week to meet the increased demands of online shoppers. Similarly, The Results Companies is busy fulfilling the increasing demand at call centers.

This session will dive into a conversation with DHL Latin America and The Results Companies as they share their experiences managing a high volume, world class recruiting function.

Key takeaways include:

• How TalentLink can help strengthen your talent pools and communicate with potential talent to keep them engaged and aware
• How to leverage TalentLink to identify skills and/or locations that employees would be willing to work in and offer opportunities to transfer those skills across your business
• How to automate your interview process so you can remain focused on candidate engagement while TalentLink does the work
• How to deliver a world class onboarding experience using TalentLink

Cultivating careers with check-ins

Victoria Rodriguez, Senior Training Consultant, Cornerstone

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Join this session and learn from a Cornerstone expert how you can build Career check-in templates that foster candid discussions between employees and their managers, and further support your organisational employee development and engagement strategy.

Creating engaging employee experiences during digital transformation

Ruben Baron, Training Consultant, Cornerstone

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Join this session and learn how to configure various Learning Preferences that will make your learners want to learn more so that they can do more.

Get what you need from Saba Analytics

Brian Picchi, Senior Technical Trainer, Cornerstone

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Saba’s in-system reporting and analytics tool can be leveraged to report on learning and performance data across your user population. Join this session and learn from a Saba expert on how to get the data you need through insight reports, custom metrics, and dimensions. Get guidance on how to create personalised charts to graphically display your data.

Leveraging TalentSpace to drive performance and coaching through disruption

Anita Bowness, Principal Product Manager, Customer Success, Cornerstone

Jodi Bartsch, Senior Strategic Services Consultant, Cornerstone

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Time Magazine says the coronavirus outbreak is the world's largest work-from-home experiment. Are your performance, feedback and coaching practices prepared? How do you ensure that your employees are equipped to do their job, maintain their productivity and navigate the stress that this disruption can bring? Join us as our TalentSpace expert will provide you with tips and tricks supported by TalentSpace configuration and use case examples to support your teams through turbulent times.

Key takeaways include:

• Agile goal-setting and goal-management activities to clarify employee performance expectations and how work gets done during disruption

• Virtually maintaining ongoing performance conversations, getting creative with development opportunities when traditional options aren’t available

• Supporting your managers and employees through different approaches to coaching and feedback, and effectively launching your new initiatives to managers and employees

Hitting the digital transformation highway

Reflecting on what has happened so far this year – and what a year it has been! – there is much for us to learn. In this new reality, Cornerstone’s EMEA Chief Executive, Vincent Belliveau, will explain how we’ve hit the digital transformation highway and will share his recommendations to help you accelerate HR transformation and make an impact in your organisation.

It’s a session you can’t miss, filled with inspirational stories from our amazing European clients, brilliant advice on navigating through the new normal and a few hints into what’s coming up next for Cornerstone.

Creating a virtual and automated hiring strategy

With a surge of skilled job seekers re-entering the market and organisations adapting to new ways of hiring, it’s more important than ever to have the right tools in place so your hiring teams can work more efficiently and your candidates stay engaged. In this session, learn about the latest chatbot and video interviewing integrations available that help support a more automated and virtual hiring experience.

Key takeaways include:

• How Cornerstone’s integration with Paradox can help you engage candidates and streamline recruiter tasks

• How Cornerstone’s Video Interview Connector can help support your virtual hiring strategy

Know your platform – Enhancements and connections to extend your Saba Cloud investment

The foundations of Saba Cloud are always expanding, and we want to bring you along for the journey. Get to know the enhancements to our platform experience for your users, new integrations with technology and content partners, enhancements to the reporting and analytics layer, explore the mobile experience and much more.

Key takeaways include:

• Tours of brand new experiences you can try out today, including our updated Dynamic User Profile

• Ways you can use Saba Marketplace to extend your Saba Cloud investment into tools you already use and provide your users with learning content from the best vendors in the world

• How to leverage our reporting and analytics functions to make the decisions that will help your people thrive

• Experience the Saba Cloud mobile journey and ways to achieve your daily and weekly objectives within your control and at your pace

10 Things leaders need to know in the new normal

What do leaders need to be thinking about in terms of the future of work? This is a question that goes beyond operational and health & safety necessities of reopening offices. The future of work requires a shift in how organisations empower their people to connect, collaborate and get work done. And that shift requires a people-centric approach across a broad spectrum of talent and people development strategies. A critical component is leadership skills. Soft skills are no longer optional – they're central to preparing people to be productive and mentally ready to embrace this new world of work.

This session dives into the ten things all leaders need to think about, including:

• What does a people-centric approach to leadership look like?

• How do you organise people and teams to collaborate effectively in this new reality?

• Why is empathy in the workplace so hard?

Attendees will come away with a deeper understanding of how leaders cultivate a more mindful approach to coaching and developing their people to adapt and thrive through change and uncertainty.

Blockchain for HR: Beyond cryptocurrency

Maintaining a common, accurate source of HR data can be a challenge, and that doesn’t include everything else an HR department needs to do with it. Cornerstone’s blockchain functionality will make new data available to enable more effective HR practitioners and more powerful AI. In this session, you’ll learn how this technology will enable faster hiring, reduced time to productivity, more certainty of skills, and a clear development path for employees.

Key takeaways include:

• Why blockchain is a reliable, powerful technology to improve HR data

• When and how HR departments can prepare for blockchain

Learning assessments and workflow engine: Behind the scenes

Engineering teams at Cornerstone are innovating from the ground up to build modern, intuitive and reliable applications for our clients. Join this session to learn how these teams are leveraging new and innovative technologies to raise the bar on user experience with our newest applications, Learning Assessments and Workflow Engine.

Boosting learning adoption with engaging and personalised content

Join BNP Paribas, a leading European bank with a global footprint, for a panel discussion to learn how they integrated Cornerstone Content Anytime into their existing Learning offering, how they manage content marketing and how they boost adoption.

Key takeaways include:

• Why BNP Paribas chose Content Anytime

• The pros and cons of a decentralised approach

• How they define and measure success and learner engagement

More than just another app – How Cornerstone Learn app supported us with driving our learning strategy

Join us to hear how Alexander Mann Solutions used the Learn App in supporting their learning strategy, from moving from traditional Instructor Led Training to blended learning, driving compliance training and introducing a new learning experience to their employees. “It’s more than just another app, this is a tool that helped us to fill the gaps and drive our learning strategy to get exactly where we wanted.”

Key takeaways include:

• The impact of the Learn App

• Steps to launch and promote

• Challenges to consider

Delivering a world-wide go-live for Cornerstone Recruiting

Henkel introduced Cornerstone Recruitment in an ambitious international project. Join Burhan and Tobias to learn from the experience of Henkel delivering a world-wide go-live for Recruitment.

Key takeaways include:

• They will share their story about the scope of this project

• The approach for overcoming key challenges

• Lessons learnt in terms of project setup, stakeholder management and working as one agile team

How to leverage Content Anytime to build agile and resilient teams

The workplace as we know it has fundamentally changed and a new set of skills is required to stay relevant. In this session, learn how to leverage our Content Anytime subscriptions to bolster employee productivity, connectivity, and mental well-being while working remotely. Additionally, learn how Content Anytime can enable the next generation of leaders to embrace change, lead and motivate virtual teams, and help navigate new normals.

Key takeaways include:

• How to leverage new learning content designed for the innovations of tomorrow

• Access to tools for maximising adoption of Content Anytime subscriptions

How to leverage AI to create an exceptional user experience

With an influx of skilled candidates searching for jobs, it can be difficult to balance daily tasks while still providing an engaging candidate experience. In this session, you'll learn how to work more efficiently and create better user experiences by leveraging AI recommendations, the new Rules Engine, and new Offer and Hiring experiences.

Key takeaways include:

• How to leverage AI recommendations throughout the entire recruiting process

• How to configure Rules in TalentLink to improve automatic notifications and streamline the selection process

• How to accelerate the Offer and Hiring process while providing a much better user and candidate experience

Building mindfulness, resilience and mental wellbeing skills in a changing world

The emotional wellbeing of employees is the #1 concern for 93% of employers. Learn how Cornerstone now helps employees build personalised resilience skills unique to their own careers and life circumstances. Join Joe Burton, CEO of Whil (Cornerstone's content partner), for this fast-paced, experiential and funny peek into mindfulness as the foundational skill for resilience and wellbeing.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn tactical and practical techniques that you can immediately apply.

• See first-hand why 50% of the Fortune 500 are now using mindfulness training to help employees manage stress while improving focus, learning and collaboration in high performance cultures.

• Having fun whilst learning how to reduce stress!

Making sense of corporate skills: a marketplace of innovation

In this research-based presentation, Josh Bersin, global industry analyst, will present an overview of how to create a resilient organization in times of change. He will discuss how the pandemic has changed the world of learning and the new emerging role of power-skills. He will give you a framework to identify the skills you need in your organization to empower your employees with the skills they need to navigate the new way of work.

Key takeaways include:

• What is the emerging role of technical skills and soft skills and how can we develop people in an integrated way?”

New ways to extend your talent experience with Cornerstone Edge

Is there any organisation that’s not trying to consolidate their technology stack? The key to longevity with consolidating multiple solutions is a solid infrastructure supporting data management and data flow between multiple systems. Come learn how Cornerstone Edge helps you scale and optimise your talent management solution and realise the potential of your people data through our innovations in integrations, API, and more.

Key takeaways include:

• What to expect with the innovations of today

• How to maximise and prepare for the innovations of tomorrow

How to engage learners in a rapidly changing world

In today's world, learning is changing at a rapid pace. In order to keep up, organisations must understand how their people want to learn, what they want to learn, and how to grab their attention. This panel will showcase how Hulu, Davita and The Bancorp are utilising Learner Home to transform the learning experience.

Key takeaways include:

• The importance of leadership buy-in and how to show the value of the Learner Home experience

• How to create a strong communication plan and use creativity to attract learners

• Launch advice and how Learner Home has impacted the way their people view learning and development

How to boost employees skills, create exceptional learning experiences and stay ahead with personalised learning paths

Gain insight and understanding to how Bupa, a leading international healthcare group, and Ministry of Finance, the main supplier of IT solutions for the Ministry of Denmark, are leveraging the expansive capabilities of Saba Cloud Learning to meet their organisations’ development needs, while providing an exceptional learner experience. Learn how personal learning journeys are an important part of driving a learning culture and how it supports the improvement of the overall organisational culture and sense of belonging.

Key takeaways include:

• How to best support new hires with modern pre- and onboarding strategies.

• How to provide exceptional and personalized learner experience and drive engagement.

• How to boost skills through personalized learning paths.

Insight into the launch of Cornerstone Performance

Join AS Watson H&B UK for an insight into the launch of Cornerstone Performance. AS Watson H&B UK has now completed a full year using Performance and this session takes you through the end to end journey.

Key takeaways include:

• Mapping out requirements at the scoping stage

• Insight into the obstacles faced, the launch and the final results

• Understanding future scoping and developments in the pipeline

Creating reporting dashboards that dazzle

Anthony Bediones, Senior Training Consultant, Cornerstone

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Like they say, "A picture is worth a thousand words.” Join this session and learn from a Cornerstone expert how to build dazzling dashboards that will allow your stakeholders to better visualise data in a more compelling format.

Knock out the top 5 importing issues with data integration studio

Maria Royce, Customer Experience Director, Cornerstone

Lisa Rose-Schell, ELearning Instructional Designer, Cornerstone

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Join this session and learn from a Saba Cloud expert how you can successfully troubleshoot importing data with Saba's Integration Studio. Get a walkthrough of the full process cycle so you can see the exact steps involved in downloading, populating, and uploading an import template. Learn the top 5 errors or warnings and how to troubleshoot them so the import process is a TKO!

It's personal - Customising notifications for a class

Brian Picchi, Senior Technical Trainer, Cornerstone

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Think notifications are all or nothing? Need different information for each class distributed? Think again! Join this session and learn from a Saba expert how to personalise and customise notifications for your classes and engage your students!

Making the connection – How to drive your talent experience with Saba TalentSpace

Sibi Anand, Manager, Business Consulting, Delivery Success, Cornerstone

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Join us for this session where a TalentSpace expert will provide useful tips and examples for expanding your use of TalentSpace beyond Performance! We will provide you with use cases, configuration examples and tips and trick for using TalentSpace to support: Employee Onboarding in a Virtual Workplace, Making the connection between Performance and Learning to drive employee outcomes, Using Talent Profiles that capture the information your organisation wants and needs to support Talent Mobility, and Leveraging Reporting to get the right insights from goals, feedback and performance data to demonstrate business impact.