Leadership SiG: Talent Advisors: The "Secret Sauce" to our Employee Engagement and Success

Join us for our Leadership Special Interest Group (SIG):

Talent Advisors: The "Secret Sauce" to our
Employee Engagement and Success

Program Description: 

What if you had someone at work whose sole purpose was to help you thrive in your role; someone to listen to your concerns, to engage with in creative problem-solving, to coach you in reaching your goals, and to challenge you when you were getting in your own way? A neutral party who wasn’t also juggling the day-to-day technical, project and client work that prevented them from fully focusing on your development. Enter the role of Talent Advisor. Come hear the story of how Pinion (formerly Kcoe Isom) developed a Talent Advising program to provide the coaching and career path goal-setting normally left to busy managers who may lack the time – and skillsets – to provide this needed service. We’ll share lessons learned (what worked, what didn’t), how we created financial impact, and how your organization might begin to consider developing a similar program.

Speaker Bio: 

Danielle McCormick

As a leader of Pinion’s learning and development team, Danielle’s role is to give employees and leaders across the USA a lift from where they are professionally to where they want to go. Most often, her coaching and service delivery is within organizations that include professional services companies, manufacturing plants, and farm businesses. Danielle and her team provide that “lift,” ultimately delivering the crucial “culture” angle of HR and business leadership effectiveness. Using a proven approach developed internally at Pinion, she and her team hit all the right notes identifying and solving underperforming leadership issues, morale and turnover problems, lack of clarity in direction and goals, and constructive feedback needs. Managing these elements of the employer/employee puzzle leads to huge peace of mind and opens the door to explore exciting new ways to encourage and develop talent.

To aid companies in taking that even more valuable step, Danielle leads company-wide initiatives and individual development programs that incorporate talent advisor sessions, leadership and executive coaching, and succession planning for businesses of all sizes. She brings more than twenty years of experience in leadership training, culture development, and human resources consulting to her role, which she combines with an infectious passion for developing emerging leaders. Business owners and managers regularly see the impact of her counsel on their employee morale and performance as well as their customer satisfaction.

ATD Capabilities: 

• Coaching
• Career and Leadership Development