How to Manage Layoffs and RIFs In A Stormy Economic Market

In this webinar you will learn what the key secrets of employee engagement are and how to develop a growth mindset culture with highly engaged employees.

In this webinar, you will learn about:
-The cost associated with Disengaged Employees
-The 3 levels of Employee (Dis)-Engagement
-How to identify disengaged employees
-Leadership techniques to energize your workforce and prevent employee disengagement

When recruiting people do you look for skills or potential? Talent is something that needs to be honed and continually developed and skills can always be learnt and improved. In an ever changing world organisations need people who can be flexible, continually learn and are able to take new ideas forward quickly. In short attracting people with a growth mindset and therefore learning potential will ensure your organisation is future fit. But even that’s not enough, you need to stand out against other companies as the place to work, a place where people will not only grow but be happy too.

“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”- Jim Collins, Good to Great

Not that long ago, talent acquisition was referred to as the recruiting department – with no more responsibility than reviewing resumes, screening candidates, and organizing candidate interviews. The phrase “talent acquisition” is now mainstream and widely accepted by companies of all sizes.

Now you and your organization, your employee brand ambassadors, have a story to tell, one that draws people to your organization now, and in the future, so what’s YOUR STORY?

This presentation will identify how individual communication impacts the brand, how brands communicate and what it all means for recruiting and employer branding. This session will demonstrate how to utilize the best search engines and sourcing tools available today to find biographical information as well as lists of names of top talent on the web. We will explore a variety of search tools as well as essential techniques for leveraging social media sites to attract and locate the candidates that you need to fill your toughest requisitions.

There is a broad end-to-end focus needed; one which stretches from building a strategic employment brand, through sourcing and recruiting, all the way to onboarding top people.

Key Takeaways:

 Planning and Strategizing

 Segmenting the Workforce

 Creating, Validating and Maintaining an Employment Brand

 Managing and Cultivating Candidate Relationships

 Defining Metrics and Conducting Analysis

 Creating an Organizational Recruiting Culture

Join this panel discussion to learn:

- How culture changes as a company scales and how the culture shift impacts recruitment

- How to set realistic hiring expectations in order to hire quality candidates

- Hiring strategies for technical roles

This webinar will include research and strategies that are the most effective in retaining and attracting top talent into your organization. Hot topics will be covered such as counter offers, training, and rewards programs.

With the competition for talent increasing and skills gaps widening, the ability to attract qualified candidates, and retain them once hired, has become a game-changer. For companies to stake out a competitive edge in talent acquisition, a firm understanding of the latest market trends and solutions available is integral to a successful talent acquisition process – identifying, engaging, hiring and retaining the talent they need.

How you recruit and treat your candidates is the best way to start engagement on the right foot. The talk includes how the candidate experience has effects on engagement. It also will include tips for HR managers and Recruiters to work together on the best engagement practices.

Within this talk we will explore how technology has fundamentally shifted the jobseeker landscape for younger demographics (millennial x,y and z). We will also touch on how new online and mobile models, can help save time, cut recruitment costs, while still ensuring the attraction of the best talent.

Key questions addressed:
-How is the Millennial Job Seeker different to its predecessors?
-How do you use new channels to engage talent?
-Are there better ways to present, connect and engage?
-How to stop wasting time and money on irrelevant applications?
-Once connected, how do I ensure I utilise the information?
-Where does mobile fit in the my hiring process?
-How can I move from paper application to digital?

Spend an hour with George Kinder as he leads a group meditation and discusses how to continue developing a mindfulness practice for yourself. There will be time for Q&A and discussion.

Can’t Miss Takeaways -

- You will:Learn the daily practice of Mindfulness and how it delivers practical benefits.
- Have access to an audio guide to a daily Mindfulness practice.
- Receive a free on-line copy of George Kinder’s book, Transforming Suffering into Wisdom: Mindfulness and The Art of Inner Listening.

Improving workplace productivity starts with getting the right people on your team and eliminating the wrong ones. Furthermore, preventing problem generator candidates from joining your organization in the first place is accomplished through performance-based hiring, strategic interviewing, including thorough reference checking, and utilizing pre-hire assessments.

Our expertise will teach you to identify and get rid of the toxic employees on your team through performance management so that you can replace them with top performers. We also show you how combining effective reference checking from previous direct supervisors and pre-employment assessment tests give you the greatest likelihood of preventing problem employees from being hired thereby automatically increasing workplace productivity.

Performance is down. We are not making the numbers. We are struggling to execute.

What do we do? We have done more training, we have an engagement programme, we have performance related pay, we have reorganised and also developed a new strategy, so what do we do now?

Sound familiar?

Performance Consultancy Unplugged is a new way to approach underperformance by looking at performance as a system, and then using a simple model to uncover the levers and barriers within the system. With the levers and barriers exposed, you know where to apply your efforts to change the performance system so the outputs improve.

Discuss how to use company culture as a recruiting tool. How to market your company’s culture to the right candidates. Diversity hiring will also be discussed.

If you've been appointed the Keeper of Culture or the Values Cops in your organization, this workshop is essential for you. And if the company culture is dependent on a larger-than-life CEO, look out! Let's talk about making culture a shared responsibility rather than something Human Resources employees are tasked with managing alone.

Coaching isn't the same as managing, mentoring or teaching. Effective sales coaching requires specific skills and processes. Most Sales Managers have no idea what Sales Coaching really is. Join us to find out what it is and how it can impact your sales organization.

While some organizations remain unresponsive to the transitions in their employees’ lives, smart companies understand that proactively supporting employees through important life events is not just compassionate, it’s good business. More and more high-profile companies such as Google, Netflix, Adobe, and Microsoft are offering extended paid maternity and paternity leave as a talent attraction and retention tool. Having family-friendly benefits and policies is a start, but it is not enough. The most positive impact on organizational outcomes occurs when leaders foster a supportive work-life culture.

In this signature research conducted in partnership between Kindercare Education and HCI, we explore how organizations are supporting working parents before, during, and after their leave for a birth or an adoption. Based on a research study of almost 300 U.S. organizations, you will learn:

Benchmarks and future plans for family-friendly benefits and policies, including paid leave
How effective these work-life offerings are at attracting talent and preventing turnover
How HR functions can help working parents assimilate back into workforce regardless of the amount of leave taken

All registrants will receive a copy of the research report.

HR Pros: Your colleagues and business partners (especially the ones in sales) want to pay people more. But is that really necessary? Is it enough to motivate and engage employees? Probably not. Join us for a look at myths about compensation.

Spend an hour with George Kinder as he leads a group meditation and discusses how to develop a mindfulness practice for yourself. There will be time for Q&A and discussion.

Can’t Miss Takeaways -

- You will:Learn the daily practice of Mindfulness and how it delivers practical benefits.
- Have access to an audio guide to a daily Mindfulness practice.
- Receive a free on-line copy of George Kinder’s book, Transforming Suffering into Wisdom: Mindfulness and The Art of Inner Listening.

We'll answer 20 questions you always wondered but were afraid to ask... After all, when it comes to prospects, sales productivity cold calling, you need all the advantages and tips you can get!