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Holiday greetings from SHL's CEO
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2011 has been a very exciting year for SHL. As you may know, SHL and PreVisor merged in January to become the global leader in People Intelligence solutions. The merger has vastly expanded our product offerings and we are thrilled to have made available to our customers over 1,000 different assessment titles for use throughout the employee life cycle.
2011 was truly a year of coming together. Beyond the expanded solution offerings, clients now have access to everything from rich thought leadership documents like the Global Assessments Trends Report, to our first LINK client conferences this year under the SHL brand in both the United States and in the United Kingdom - with LINK events scheduled in South Africa and Australia next year.
And the innovation did not slow down in 2011, with a bevy of new assessment simulations released as well as the soft launch of SHL’s Talent Analytics capability at HR Tech this past October, which promises to provide the answers to the critical workforce questions that organisations require.
We are so very grateful for your continued support and we look forward to providing you with the quality and service levels you expect from SHL in 2012 and beyond.
I wish you the very best for the holiday season and a happy and successful 2012.
David Leigh
Chief Executive Officer, SHL
Talent Analytics: the next evolution of talent assessment
The October 2011 report from Aberdeen Group covers SHL’s soon to be released Talent Analytics™ solution. By enabling benchmarking of their talent pools against those of competitors, the new offering gives organisations deep insight into their people’s potential to deliver organisational success.
The Aberdeen Report concludes, "With the additional capability to contextualize assessments data with external data through the talent analytics offering, SHL is looking to change the game by giving employers new avenues of insight into power decision-making."
Case study: realising people potential for better performance
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Thales Alenia Space, the European leader in satellite systems, wanted to improve performance and build greater employee loyalty. Working with SHL, the company is seeing more of its best people reach their career potential. "The participants have given very positive feedback, saying they have grown in maturity, autonomy and self awareness", says HR Director Claire Oksman.
Read more about how SHL helped Thales Alenia Space
New client LINK events planned
Following the success of SHL’s recent client conferences in London and Orlando, the programme is to be extended to Australia and South Africa in the spring.
The client LINK conferences bring together senior HR professionals under one roof to learn, network and share experiences on how best to use SHL People Intelligence to drive business performance.
SHL’s inaugural client conference attracted over 100 senior HR professionals to join discussions and share experiences on achieving world class talent strategy through people intelligence.
LINK UK provided a platform to bring together leading international HR professionals to give insight, share experiences and synthesize ideas on talent management and measurement best practise.
Over 170 delegates and 7 journalists attended the event at Inmarsat Conference Centre, London on Tuesday 18th October 2011, to hear from and interact with industry experts.
David Leigh, CEO at SHL, kicked off the day’s proceedings: "‘People Intelligence’ is critical to success; organisations need to understand the potential of their people in order to make better talent recruitment and development decisions – driving measurable business results and sustaining competitive advantage".
‘Does your organisation have the right talent on board to drive strategic change?’ Eugene Burke posed one of the most poignant questions of the day to the LINK audience, who were among the first in UK to preview SHL Talent Analytics™, the new benchmarking solution.
"Good to understand benchmarking and where we are as a company" – Bentley Motors
"Refreshing, professional, engaging" – Motorola
"A very well organised networking experience and a validation of the work we have started in our company" – Diversey
"Brought back excitement into my daily work in Talent" – Shell
SHL Americas hosted its seventh client conference in early November at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando. With over 10 countries represented, it was the highest attendance LINK conference to date. The two-day event featured keynotes by Josh Bersin and Ryan Estis, with breakout sessions led by speakers from 25 different companies including Coca Cola, Hertz, Prudential, The Children's Place and Time Warner Cable.
Conference breakout sessions spanned a host of topics affecting organizations today including: how to successfully integrate and align talent strategies across a global organization; effectively measuring People Intelligence to transform your bottom line; utilizing the latest assessment science to create talent management strategies for the next generation of business leaders; and more. Participants hailing from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia - in aggregate employing a workforce of over 5 million employees - learned about products in development and innovative talent management techniques in practice. Topics covered how "immersive" technologies (like virtual simulations) can be leveraged for traditional talent measurement practices, and how Talent Analytics benchmarking can transform talent decision-making, and strengthen competitive advantage.
A sampling of feedback from this year’s attendees can be found below:
"I’ve been going to events like this one for over 25 years, and this is the best, most effective HR event I have attended." - VP HR from Major Financial Services Company
"Great opportunity to network with other HR professionals. Engaging breakout sessions. Wonderful time!" - HR Director from National Credit Union
"I learned so much and met so many people. From a content and networking perspective it was fabulous." - Talent Acquisition Director at Global Consulting Firm
Product UpdatesJobMatch: the right people for the right jobs Make fast, reliable and low cost talent decisions with SHL's new JobMatch. This easy-to-use online application accurately defines a job profile and evaluates each candidate's suitability for the position – matching it against SHL's extensive database of more than 7,000 job profiles. New SHL solutions and assessments SHL regularly adds new assessments and solutions. The following have been added very recently: New skills assessments: JavaScript 1.8, .NET Framework 4.0, C# 4.0, Java – EJB 3.0, Java 6 Fundamentals, Computer Fundamentals (Windows 7), Computer Literacy (Windows 7). New solutions: Teller/Bank Cashier Solution (Australasian English, UK English, US English), Retail Solution, (German, French, Swedish, Dutch). Other: Verify Numeric and Verbal Reasoning (Arabic), Multiple Assessment Portfolio exercise - Consumer brands, iPQ Career Planner iPhone / iPad /iPod touch app and report (now free of charge). |
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