The Impact of Career Management and Internal Mobility on Development and Organizational Competence

Explore the impact of career management and internal mobility across diverse industries, tackle challenges, and collaborate cross-functionally for organizational competence.

September 04, 2024 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

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Unlocking Growth: The Impact of Career Management and Internal Mobility

Career management and internal mobility are pivotal in shaping organizational success in today's dynamic business landscape. Whatever your industry, understanding the value of these practices is essential. Organizations that prioritize career development, the support of career transitions, and internal mobility foster engaged employees, enhance competencies, and drive innovation. By empowering individuals to navigate their career paths within the company, organizations create a win-win scenario: employees feel fulfilled, and the organization benefits from a skilled, motivated workforce.

Navigating Challenges: Change, Strategy Activation, and Opportunity Costs

However, implementing effective career management and internal mobility strategies isn’t without challenges. Change is inevitable, and organizations must adapt swiftly. Leaders face the task of activating strategic initiatives while managing resistance. The opportunity cost of neglecting career development and internal mobility can be steep—loss of talent, decreased productivity, and missed growth opportunities. Organizations that fail to invest in these skills and behaviors risk falling behind their competitors. As we explore leadership, change management, and strategy activation tools, we’ll dig into overcoming these hurdles and maximizing the impact of career management and internal mobility.

Collaboration Across Boundaries: A Cross-Functional Approach

Our peer-learning community emphasizes collaboration as a cornerstone of success. By bringing together professionals from diverse backgrounds within your organizations, we benefit from a vibrant tapestry of experience and expertise. Come share and learn from one another to gain fresh perspectives and consider cross-functional approaches that ensure career management and internal mobility are not siloed but integrated seamlessly into the fabric of organizational culture. Join us in harnessing the collective wisdom, leveraging our leadership skills, and driving positive change at the intersection of strategy, competence, and collaboration!

This event will feature:

• Artell Smith and Lisa Yaffe, from the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development
• Member Spotlights from Milwaukee Tool & more

Artell Smith

Artell has extensive experience in various senior-level business and human resources leadership positions in large, complex organizations. He has led transformational projects globally across all aspects of HR work, including talent development, DEI, generalist services, HR operations and employee contact centers, technology, recruiting, and offshoring.

Artell was recently Vice President-Human Resources-Talent, HR Shared Services & Technology at Quad (formerly Quad/Graphics). Previously, Artell was Executive Director-Strategic Programs at BlueSoHo, a division of Quad/Graphics. He is also the Principal and Managing Director of WatchWorks Management Consulting LLC. Artell was HR Senior Vice-President for Strategy, Technology & Operations at Aon plc, a $12B global insurance brokerage and HR consultancy. Artell also served as CHRO at Aon Hewitt, a 25,000-employee, $4B subsidiary of Aon plc.

Lisa Yaffe

Lisa leverages decades of corporate and consulting experience to educate, counsel, and coach managers, executives, and leadership teams in the science and art of leadership and organizational culture. As a program director, instructor, and coach at the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development, Lisa advises to the rich leadership content within the Executive Leadership and Transition to Executive Management certificate programs.

Her background includes a range of human resources, leadership development, culture, and change experience, most recently from Baxter Healthcare and Hewitt Associates. Lisa has earned an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, and both a Masters in Liberal Arts and a Certificate in Leadership from the University of Chicago. She is also a certified consultant with Human Synergistics, International. Her most important challenge is championing change in the public school where she is on the board of education.

To Learn more about the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional and Executive Development visit uwcped.org.

Participate in Customizing the Agenda: You’ll have the opportunity to play an active part in shaping the agenda for this session – and to maximize its relevance for you – by suggesting and selecting topics for break-out discussions. Once the agenda is complete, you choose the discussions you want to join. This will be a highly interactive session so come prepared to share your questions, challenges and insights!

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Additional Information

Location: UW-Madison Pyle Center (In-person); EventsAir (Virtual)
Location Address: 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53706

Contact: Events Team, events@uwebc.wisc.edu