Speaker Profile
WILLIAM J. ROTHWELL
William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., DBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, RODC, CPTD Fellow is a Distinguished Professor in the Workforce Education and Development program in the Department of Learning and Performance Systems, College of Education, on the University Park campus of The Pennsylvania State University. He is also President of his own consulting companies—Rothwell & Associates, Inc. and Rothwell & Associates, LLC. Not just a professor, he had 20 years of HR experience before he became a professor and presently oversees 5 small businesses. He has authored, coauthored, edited, or coedited 158 books since 1987. In 2022 he earned Penn State University’s Global Lifetime Achievement Award, the university’s highest award for doing international work that exerts a positive global influence for the university and was also honored with the Organization Development Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award. His recent books include Successful Supervisory Leadership: Exerting Positive Influence While Leading People (Routledge, 2023), Transformational Coaching (Routledge, 2023), Succession Planning for Small and Family Businesses (Routledge, 2022), High-Performance Coaching for Managers (Routledge, 2022); Rethinking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Routledge, 2022).
William J. Rothwell
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Basics of Workforce Planning
Workforce planning is a strategic process that involves identifying and aligning an organization's workforce requirements with its business goals. It encompasses activities such as analyzing the current workforce, forecasting future workforce needs, and developing strategies to ensure that the organization has the right people with the right skills in the right positions.Areas Covered Part I: Key terms and ..
William J. Rothwell
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Driving Down Turnover Through Effective Employee Engagement
Employee engagement programs have grown in popularity. One reason they are so popular is as a strategy to drive down the turnover of average workers and superstar performers. This webinar will describe the components of an employee engagement program, how to make the business case for such programs, and how to use an employee engagement program as a deliberate and systematic way to drive down avoidable turn..
William J. Rothwell
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Microlearning: Speed Up Talent Development
This webinar describes microlearning, explains why it is so important, and reviews how to design, implement, and evaluate microlearning.Learning a new skill, such as a language or instrument, is best accomplished through little, repeating chunks of study. The benefits of microlearning for professional development and efficiency are becoming increasingly apparent. Multiple studies have shown that students pe..
William J. Rothwell
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
New Thinking on Employee Performance Management
Performance management systems, while intended to enhance employee performance and development, often face criticism due to various challenges and shortcomings. Some key complaints about performance management include:Subjectivity and Bias: Critics argue that performance evaluations can be subjective and prone to bias. Managers may exhibit favoritism, and personal relationships can influence ratings, leadin..
William J. Rothwell
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
The Supervisor as Your Chief Retention Officer
Crisis at a small or large scale can bring about permanent changes in an organizations’ workplace. As new practices enter the work environment, remote work becomes the norm, social distancing shifts requirements, mask mandates, your frontline leaders, more than ever play an important part in retention practices.What is Retention?"The classic organization is characterized by the command-and-control style of ..
Competency Based Human Resource Management
A job description literally describes a job, but a competency model describes the human being who does the job adequately or superlatively. This webinar explains the difference between a competency-based HR system and a job-description-based HR system. It defines competencies, explains the business reasons to use them, explains how competency models are developed, and reviews each component of HR when it is..
What’s New in Workforce Planning?
Workforce planning programs have grown in popularity. One reason they are so popular is to bring systematic thinking to the need to drive down labor costs while maximizing productivity. This webinar will describe new approaches to workforce planning and how to use them to address the comprehensive labor force needs of an organization. Workforce planning is a systematic approach to determining the quantity a..