Vana Consulting Announces the Social Media for Talent Management 2-day Workshop

The Social Media for Talent Management Workshop offers HR, Learning, and IT Business Leaders a practical and actionable approach to leveraging social media and web 2.0 strategies to enable transformational talent and workforce management initiatives.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) May 6, 2009 -- Social Media is changing how workplace and talent collaborate, engage, and interact to drive corporate strategy and business success.

Social talent management strategies including social recruitment, informal learning, workplace collaboration, expertise location, talent engagement, and salesforce productivity, are fast becoming recognized as a strategic business advantage in today's economy.

"Companies today harnessing the power of social media for strategic talent initiatives are already in a position to clearly benefit against their competitors," - David Vanheukelom, President and CEO of Vana Consulting.

The Social Media for Talent Management workshop is a two-day interactive and hands-on session where attendees receive practical training in how to:

- Creating a strategy and business case for social media in your enterprise

- Augmenting talent management initiatives with social strategies and tools

- Best practices in implementing social recruitment, social learning, workforce collaboration, and community initiatives

- How using social media for employee communication and collaboration can deliver immediate value to your business and workforce

- A diagnostic assessment of your current approaches to talent and workforce strategies and where to best apply social media

- Creating a governance and project team for execution

- Developing social policies and guidelines

- Overcoming key challenges and gaining executive buy-in

- Creating a sustainable community and adoption plan for long-term success

- A clear plan for action and next steps

"The information during the social media for talent management workshop was fabulous and your ability to communicate and educate was outstanding. I especially enjoyed the specific examples of corporate social strategies and applications you shared during the session. They were comprehensive, in-depth and extremely pertinent, giving me a very clear picture of just how powerful; effective social media resources can be within corporate HR." - Susan Strickland
Recruitment Specialist, Toronto Canada.

The Social Media for Talent Management workshop is available now on a global basis located at the client site or an agreed upon location.

A 15% price discount is available to participants registering before May 29th, 2009.

For more information or to register for a workshop, please visit us at http:///www.vanaconsulting.com or call Vana Consulting at (905) 336-8952.

About Vana Consulting.

Vana Consulting helps companies revolutionize the impact talent management and social relationships have on workforce and business success. We leverage our deep domain expertise, agile methodology, and strategic partner relationships to deliver ground-breaking results for our customers. Vana Consulting is a complete service provider of both agile strategies and enabling technologies delivering the next generation of enterprise workforce and talent solutions. The company enables organizations in defining, creating, and implementing innovative, agile, and fit-for-purpose talent and social strategies, supported by the implementation and deployment of enabling technologies to deliver substantial and sustainable competitive advantage from their workforce. Learn more at http://www.vanaconsulting.com

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