The Professional Association for Strategic Talent Management

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Talent strategy, acquisition, development and management are the core responsibilities of leaders throughout the enterprise. Join HCI as we build a strategic bridge across the silos of recruitment, traditional HR, organizational development and line management. We represent the new paradigm that talented, aligned and engaged people are truly an organization’s key asset, and that competitive advantage, barriers to entry and market values are increasingly defined by intellect, rather than by factories, equipment or sheer scale.

HCI is leaning forward into the future, breaking free of a century of traditional HR and management assumptions. HCI members are tapping into creative ideas, innovative new strategies, and the tools and resources they need to build a career focused on where business is going – not where it’s been.

4 New Research Reports from Aberdeen Group (worth R10, 400): HCI Professional Members will receive four FREE Aberdeen Benchmark Research Reports (each accompanied by a live, interactive Webcast exclusively for HCI members) in 2006. So your R960-00 membership investment will give you an 800% ROI with this new benefit alone!

12 Issues of Leadership Excellence (worth R720-00): Sign up for 2006 and receive a monthly subscription to Leadership Excellence, HCI’s Journal of Human Capital and Management Strategy. Recent contributors to our exciting new magazine include Steven R. Covey, Malcolm Gladwell, Jack Welch, Robert Reich, and Michael Porter. Next year’s roster is shaping up to be just as strong! (Your ROI just increased to 900%).

30 New Master’s Webcasts: Each month in 2006, HCI will provide Professional Members with FREE access to live Webcasts featuring the world’s most prominent talent management and business strategy experts. This year, members will share the latest insights from Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Dr. Noel Tichy, Dr. Richard Boyatzis, Dr. Peter Cappelli, Dr. John Boudreau, Dr. Jac Fitz-enz, Dr. David Ulrich and many, many more

160 New Webcasts and White Papers: Professional Members can also tap into any of over 160 new Webcasts and White Papers presenting best practices, next practices and innovative new ideas in talent strategy, acquisition, development and leadership.

40 New Volumes of Best Practices: In 2006, HCI’s 40 Thought Leadership Panels will embark on a new project to consolidate, organize and maintain a Library of best practices and next practices in their respective Learning Tracks. This living library will provide HCI Professional Members with an ever evolving, powerful new proprietary resource.

6 New Network-Building Tools: HCI is building the most advanced electronic networking tools in the market today. Beginning in January, you will be able to build a personal profile, author blogs, connect via private social networks, form local and industry practice groups, participate in discussion forums, and schedule local meetings with your peers. This powerful new toolset will enable you to tap your colleagues for information and answers, broaden your professional network and scale your own career brand.

10 New Industry Talent Councils: Every industry vertical has a unique set of talent challenges. HCI’s new Industry Councils offer human capital professionals and line executives a neutral forum for comprehensively and cooperatively evaluating industry issues, opportunities and metrics.

For Executive Search and Recruitment: Search and recruitment professionals are critical to an organization’s success in the knowledge economy. These professionals are on the front lines, shaping opportunities and transforming job requirements into highly talented, effective new hires. HCI membership broadens recruitment knowledge, provides cutting-edge new tools and tactics, introduces access to a network of corporate leaders, and positions recruiters as critical strategic advisors to management.

For Strategic Human Resources: HR is struggling to break free of the industrial economy business model that has prevailed for half a century. In a knowledge economy, people are not hired on the basis of interchangeable skills, nor are they a "cost" to be controlled. Rather, people are the most powerful asset an organization can invest in. As traditional HR is increasingly outsourced and offshored, HCI offers a new career direction for HR professionals, and the new knowledge required to become a true strategic business partner.

For Organisational Development: What was once "interesting" for OD professionals is rapidly becoming critical knowledge for the enterprise. As we move into a global, broadband economy, creative models and innovative ideas around organizational development are moving front and center. HCI offers an opportunity for OD professionals to see new theories come alive, and work with forward-thinking, thought-leading executives to achieve measurable business results.

For Management and Executive Leaders: Global strategies are built on talent pools. Barriers to entry are more likely to be intellectual than physical. Intangible assets, not plant and equipment increasingly drive market value. In short, business strategy cannot be set without understanding Human Capital Management. HCI offers business leaders comprehensive education and insight for talent strategy, acquisition and development.

Leadership Excellence HCI’s Journal of Human Capital Leadership provides a monthly digest of creative, value-centered ideas and strategies for talent management, organisational and leadership development. Each issue features up to 20 of the world’s most recognised thought leaders and practitioners who share innovative new strategies and next-practices for acquiring, developing and leading top talent.

Gary Hamel. Dave Ulrich. Peter F. Drucker. Warren Bennis, Tom Peters, Peter Senge, Marcus Buckingham, Rosabeth Kanter, Ken Blanchard, Jim Collins, Michael Porter, Meg Wheatley, Noel Tichy, Marshall Goldsmith, Jay Conger, C.K. Prahalad . James Belasco, Nicholas Negraponte, Michael Treacy, Henry Mintzberg, Karl Albrecht , Michael Hammer, Edgar Schein, Edward DeBono, Robert Kaplan

For more information, please contact Jeff Sacht at jeffs@worldonline.co.za; Purchase online for R960-00 per annum (Excl VAT). Purchase online http://shop.workinfo.com.shopdirect.co.za/category.aspx?categoryID=1 

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Human Capital Institute – HCI (SA), 332 Kent Av. Randburg, 2194, Johannesburg, South Africa; CK 2005/175823/23;

jeffs@worldonline.co.za; www.humancapitalinstitute.org; +27 (0) 824561049