30 HR Leaders representing 20 Japanese and foreign firms in Japan posed with laughter following the inaugural Japan HR Leaders Meeting Series event hosted by Nissan in April.
Nissan Motor Corporation
Japan HR Leaders Learning Series I
Date: April 13, 2018
Theme: Identifying and Closing Gaps in the Global Talent Pool
Guest Speakers: Laura Gillespie and Anish Baijal (Nissan); Luis Souza (Fujitsu)
Shifting Talent Strategy When There is No More Business as Usual
Global HR Leaders in Japan share common challenges with their talent gaps in the face of the industrial revolution
Key Challenges
More than ever before, HR Leaders are required to provide innovative talent solutions in the face of an ever-changing business landscape across industries.
- Have more reliable HR analytics to identify future talent needs and address gaps;
- As businesses become more global, leaders are required to lead effectively across borders;
- As business models evolve at a fast pace, workforces are required to be more agile than before to catch up with new skills and technologies;
- Japan has its unique challenges due to its national culture and unique practices around talent management.
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Talent Solutions shared by Nissan & Fujitsu
Japanese firms are continuing their effort to globalize their talent by adopting new practices:
- Created a globally standardized rating system to analyze succession plans;
- Focused on short and long-term actions to close gaps with Build, Borrow or Buy approach;
- Shift to a new Leadership model matching the new business model with Selection, Assignment and Development approach;
- Identify high-performing and high-potential talent early in their careers and strategically accelerate their development.
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A Note from Human Future
The talent issues facing HR leaders are never as challenging as now. In order to keep up with the business changes and provide new HR solutions accordingly, HR leaders need to continuously learn new HR trends and approaches, and become more innovative than ever before.
Japan HR Leaders Learning Series is a platform to help HR leaders learn from each other, and help each other learn through networking and information sharing. Here is some information for the upcoming events in 2018:
- The July event will be hosted by Fujitsu at Shiodome, details to be announced in the coming week once finalized.
- In order to maintain the quality of the event, this event will continue to be invitation-only.
We look forward to meeting you all in July, until then please keep tuned and watch out for details in our next newsletter.
