Our WISDOM 2012 event is May 6-8 in Dallas, and I’m excited that we’re trying something unique this year by hosting two educational conference tracks in parallel.

One track will cater to the Aquire user community. If you’re already benefiting from any of our solutions, the Aquire User Conference is the perfect opportunity to get more value from your investment. Not only will you get hands-on training with our current solutions, you’ll get insights our product roadmap directly from our product team along a sneak peek at some of the exciting new solutions we’ll be introducing in the near future.

This year we’re introducing a separate conference track that deep dives into workforce planning and analytics. Targeted at the HR professional and business executive, the sessions in this conference are all about building actionable workforce planning frameworks. The industry experts we’ve tapped for this track like Patti Johnson, CEO of PeopleResult and Pat Chadbourne, Director of Strategic Workforce Planning and Talent Analytics, at Ingersoll Rand, will share real world examples of the tools, processes and techniques to align your planning and analytics with your business goals.

Speaking of industry experts, I’m pleased to welcome Doug Reed, the VP of HR at global real estate services powerhouse CB Richard Ellis, as a WISDOM 2012 keynote speaker. Don’t miss his “Presenting Your Workforce Plan to the Board/Executives,” an insider’s view of the key data points every decision maker wants to see before committing budget to a plan. Doug’s keynote is a must-attend for any HR professional that deals with C-level executives.

As always, you’ll feel the love from the Aquire team: experts from every department will be on hand in every session and in both conferences. We always enjoy networking with the community at our user conferences and if you register before March 16, you’ll get $250 off the regular price with our early bird discount.

Please join us for WISDOM 2012 at the W Hotel in Dallas this May!

Cheers,

Lois

If you work in a marketing department surrounded by 20-something year old professionals, you may form a lot of assumptions about the staff of your company hailing from the 20’s generation.  If the department you support is filled with long term engineers reaching retirement, you may feel like the rest of the company outside of your department fits that profile better.  People jump to conclusions very quickly― it allows us to “get to results” quicker.  Often, demographics are averaged or assumed while further distorted or watered down by the ‘bubble’ we work within.

Facts are needed to give the proper perspective.  Understanding the make-up of the organization based on the demographics of the workforce can support many other inquiries and understandings.  There are those who want to regulate systems from collecting or reviewing various types of demographics of our workforce, but that prevents us from getting a holistic view of the team.  It is important that we are able to review and understand the DNA of our workforce.

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