Recruiting Leadership Training
virtual or in-person training for teams
Sure, having great recruiting skills is critical to credibly leading a recruiting team, but what often separates the best recruiting leaders from the good leaders has more to do with their ability to influence execs, lead change, build strategy, and motivate and focus busy recruiters. This workshop – called Recruiting Leadership Lab – receives incredibly high ratings from recruiting managers and directors because it delivers practical strategies, tools and techniques (including the language to use to influence and lead) to help Recruiting Leaders lead more effectively.
This is not a general leadership training, focused on giving performance feedback and visions/mission stuff. This unique workshop – all scenario-based – is completely tailored to the real-world challenges faced by your corporate recruiting leaders. Your leaders work side by side to tackle their current challenges, and receive real-time coaching and best practice tools and techniques to help them in their real world of competing priorities and limited time and money.
“What a fantastic two days – tremendously valuable.”
– VP Enterprise Technology Talent Acquisition, The Walt Disney Company
Listen: What is a Leadership Lab?
Typical Agendas include a focus on:
- How to build and lead a Quarterly Business Review and drive priorities, gain alignment, and gain commitment from executives
- How to Build and Present a Quality Business Case to Get Approvals for Additional Investments in Talent Acquisition (Headcount, Programs)
- How to Influence Execs and Get Buy-in for Strategy
- How to Build and Communicate a Recruiting Strategy for a Department or Hiring Ramp Up
- How to Leverage Key Metrics to Plan, Make Quality Decisions, Influence, and Establish your Credibility
- How to Drive Change and Adoption with Hiring Managers, Execs, and Recruiters
- How to Coach Recruiters to be Talent Advisors
- How to Build Scalable Pipeline and Interviewing Strategies and Processes
- How to Create a Culture of Recruiting with High Hiring Manager Engagement
- How to Improve Diversity ROI – Building, Influencing, Driving Adoption
We custom-build the training content to align to your goals, your culture, and development opportunities. We can deliver the training in-person in your offices over ¾ to 1 full day, or virtually, via a tool like Zoom, over multiple days, broken into 2.5-hour modules.
After the training, Recruiting Leaders head back to their desks with easy-to-use tools and guides to help them better engage, influence, and lead. This is not some academic workshop focused on the importance of being a strategic leader; it’s all about the “how to.” Recruiting leaders leave with templates, guides, and tools to help them put the lessons learned in the training stick.
This custom recruiting leadership training is designed for teams of 12+ new and experienced corporate recruiting managers and directors who lead recruiters and are responsible for recruiting strategy for some or all of their organization, and recruiting team leads. (Also see our public Recruiting Leadership Lab workshops if you are interested in training for just 1 or 2 recruiting managers.)
Titles matter less than roles. To get the most out of this, participants should be in a role where they need to regularly build business cases to justify investments, create, communicate and gain buy-in for recruiting strategies from the business and your team, measure and drive recruiter productivity, and problem-solve difficult team and business-facing issues. Past attendees have included leads who mentor 2-3 recruiters to directors who lead 100+ person TA teams, but all share a common interest in delivering more strategic value to the businesses they partner with to hire great talent into their company.
We conduct focus group calls with your recruiting management team before we design your training. This helps us to customize the content – especially the real-world scenarios your team will work through – to the skill level of the recruiting leaders who will participate. We get feedback from new recruiting managers to very experienced director-level TA leaders that the training was practical, highly relevant, and credibly delivered.
“Amazing 2-day learning experience. I put my learning to use before I even made it back to the office.”
Talent Acquisition Manager, Nike
Who hires us?
SAP. Bloomberg. Salesforce. Nike. Disney. EA Games. Lidl. Booz Allen. Leading companies, around the world, choose Recruiting Toolbox as a partner when they’re looking to transform their recruiting teams, and help elevate the strategic capabilities of their recruiting leadership team.
Why choose Recruiting Toolbox’s Recruiting Leadership Lab workshop for your recruiting team?
“5/5! Awesome content and applicability. I left with a toolkit to be a better leader and business partner. This is the best recruiting leadership workshop I’ve ever attended. Thank you!”
– Manager, Recruiting, Disney
“Amazing 2-day learning experience. I put my learning to use before I even made it back to the office.”
– Talent Acquisition Manager, Nike
“Content was excellent. I will absolutely use the workbook and lessons learned; I’m eager to get started! Just perfect. 5/5!”
– Senior Recruiting Manager, SAP
“I learned how to diagnose root issues, and better frame the work I’m doing as a way to influence our executives. Excellent!”
– Recruiting Leader, EA Games
“He really understood our problems, culture, and opportunities, and made the content really relatable and actionable. I’ve already started implementing John’s suggestions in my team, and am walking away knowing how I can become a better leader. Great content, very relevant.”
– Recruiting Manager, Bloomberg
“5/5! Top notch, very applicable. Will I actually use this? 100% yes. He kept it real and that helped elevate the experience. I’d definitely recommend this to my peers.”
– Recruiting Manager, Booz Allen Hamilton
“Super engaging, catered specifically to Grab, with content I can implement immediately. Awesome. 5/5!”
– TA Manager, Grab
“Excellent! I learned so much, got a lot from all of the interaction and practice opportunities, and feel like everything is very real-world practical.”
– Recruiting Manager, PNC Bank
“5/5! This workshop had excellent alignment to our leadership transformation work, and was filled with great exercises, tangible takeaways, and some big a-ha moments.”
– Senior Manager, Recruiting, AT&T
“5/5! This workshop changed my perspective on so many things. We worked through hard questions, that other workshops won’t address. And I’m already using some of the things I learned in Warsaw. An inspiring experience!”
– Country Recruiting Manager, LIDL Europe
“5/5! Amazing.”
– Senior Director, Talent Acquisition, Northrop Grumman
“This has been one of the best trainings I’ve taken. After having worked 21 years in the Industry, I’ve never once seen anyone capture the themes and build successful frameworks that only come with time and experience as well as I have through your training and teachings. Thanks again for a fabulous leadership lab.”
– Recruiting Director, Slack
“The best training program I have ever been to. I learned a lot – and am truly excited to share what I’ve learned and apply that in my day-to-day”
– Recruiting Leader, Canva
“This was a very impactful workshop for me both personally and professionally. I am thankful to my organization for investing in this and us.”
– TA Manager, Kindercare
“I am not surprised to see the high ratings from my leadership team – it truly was one of the most impactful trainings I’ve ever participated in. We’ve all talked about how powerful the class was and how eager we are to make shifts to implement the learnings.”
– Head of Talent Acquisition, H-E-B
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