HR needs to start thinking and acting more like sales and marketing. The best HR professionals of the future will think about the principles of sales and marketing when setting up a new benefits plan, or designing a new bonus or incentive plan or even recruiting and on-boarding new employees.  In this session, we'll talk about the top seven lessons from sales and marketing that you can start implementing today. The pay-off will be deeper levels of employee engagement, more credibility with senior leaders and higher levels of productivity from the HR team. These news skills are the must-have competencies for HR for 2017 and beyond. You will learn:

• The fundamental of sales and marketing strategies.
• How to get support from senior leaders for major HR initiatives quicker and with less effort by using the principles of good marketing and sales. 
• How to align HR programs to the strategic plan in the same way that sales and marketing does.  
• How to perform cost/benefit analysis on your major initiatives to understand which projects to dedicates resources to.  
• How to respond more quickly to the external environment and implement new programs in HR that reflect the changing times similar to sales and marketing.