Traditional skill appraisal methods—self-reported assessments and manager evaluations—are often incomplete and unreliable, limiting organizations' ability to leverage the benefits of their talent investments. This session, based on Mercer’s latest research, explores how recognition data becomes an invaluable source of data to identify and confirm skills—providing a real-time, validated view of how skills are currently used within an organization, and mitigating bias that can emerge through other means of skills identification. Learn how effective recognition can uncover hidden talent, reduce bias in hiring and promotions, and align workforce development with business goals.
In this session you will learn:
- Why skills-powered organizations outperform their peers and how to align recognition with talent development strategies.
- How to leverage recognition data to organically uncover and confirm employee skills accurately, in real time.
- How to design meaningful recognition programs that deliver skills-rich data, the key to uncovering hidden potential and supporting business growth.
Meet the Presenters
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Jason Averbook
Jason Averbook is a Senior Partner and Global Leader of Digital HR Strategy with Mercer. From January 2018 to March of 2023, he was Co-founder and CEO of Leapgen, a digital transformation company helping organizations shape their future workplace. Now at Mercer, he continues broadening executive mindsets to rethink how to better design and deliver employee services and drive the shift from doing technology projects to being a digital function.
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Tara Cooper
Tara Cooper is Global HR Tech Analyst and Advisor at Mercer. She has over 16 years of experience in the HR technology industry, with a special passion for innovative and disruptive tech. With expertise in go-to-market strategy, product marketing, and market research, Cooper leads the HR Tech Analyst practice at Mercer where she works to uncover and share industry trends and insights with HR leaders, tech buyers and vendors.
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Hari Date
Hari Date is Senior Strategic Advisor, Employee Engagement and Recognition Expert at Workhuman. He is a thought Leader in employee engagement, culture, global human capital management solutions, people management and project management. At Workhuman, Date leverages his background and experience in HR to help organizations realize the power of gratitude and how showing appreciation to your employees creates a culture where your employees show up every day to do their best work which has tremendous business ROI.
SHRM certification has approved this webinar for 1 PDC toward SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP recertification. A program code will be provided at the end of the webinar.