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Featured Event
May 25, 2010
“Economic RE-Boot: RE-Charging, RE-Energizing, RE-Engaging” – Round Robin
This event will be held in a round-robin format, providing you the opportunity to dialog on a number of related topics with several experts in the field and with your HREF colleagues. Please note that we are starting the networking and programming time one half hour earlier to accommodate the format change as well as the very popular networking session!
Networking will begin at 3:00 PM and the round-robin program will begin at 4:00 PM.
When you sign in and pick up your nametag, you will be asked to select the three sessions you wish to join.
The speakers and their topics are:
- The Candor Imperative
Jim Bolton, CEO of Ridge Associates, will speak on one of the most critical variables in promoting employee engagement and work group performance—candor. These issues are at the center of our work as HR professionals, and the practice of candor is core to the essence of HR. But how effectively do we walk our talk when confronted with a "candor moment" ourselves? In this session each participant will explore and articulate a personal "candor commitment," learn how to foster candor in others, and develop strategies to champion candor in the organizations in which we work.
- Do Culture and Measurement have to be at Odds?
Consultant J. Forrest, Employment Strategies, Inc. will explore the use of metrics as a tool to increase HR’s relevance and value to the organization. In a time of cost-cutting and tighter optics on performance, participants will take an in-depth dive to refine their knowledge, usage, and application of HR measurements while keeping the company culture at the forefront of action.
- Dynamic Customer-Centric Employee Engagement
Karl Speak, Brand Tool Box, Ltd. will provide HR leaders with the tools to position employee engagement as a customer-centric alignment program that delivers real strategic value to the organization. Karl will provide proven insights into describing a pragmatic customer-centric cultural alignment program that can be the difference between a good and great human capital strategy—one that has a tangible positive impact on business results.
- The Emotional Economy: A Focus on Connecting with your Employees & Customers
Kurt Deneen, Strategic Consultant for Gallup, will share the latest research of human behavior and trends from the world’s leading pollster. Human beings connect with a brand, a boss, a team, and a job, largely based on emotional vs. rational reasons. Kurt will discuss what drives emotional engagement and what organizations can do to elevate their focus on winning in this emotional economy.
- Is Your Employment Brand Poised For The Recovery?
Is your company positioned to woo the best and the brightest performers? Social media and strategic communications experts from Tunheim partners, Noelle Hawton and David Erickson will discuss how the tools of communications—both traditional and non-traditional—can be deployed to woo the best talent and ensure prospective employees choose to work for your organization instead of for the competition. Attendees will come away from the session with more than a dozen concrete ways to put the company’s best foot forward.
- Is your Leadership Aligned for Success in the New Reality?
Leigh Bailey, Founder of The Bailey Group, will discuss the impact on business leaders of the extraordinarily difficult economic environment. While many of the decisions made in this crisis mode were necessary, they also frequently went against the grain of company culture and practice. Direct reports of senior leaders may have been asked to implement decisions they were not involved in making and with which they may have disagreed. Leigh will share some of the causes, symptoms and organizational impact of misalignment between the top two layers of leadership and offer suggestions for resolving this threat to successful change management.
- Life after Layoffs: Employee Communication Strategies that Rebuild Trust and Re-engagement
Lynn Casey, CEO of Padilla Speer Beardsley, will talk about how effective employee communications can shorten the recovery time for organizations emerging from economic downturns. This session will provide practical, tactical ideas for rebuilding trust and re-engaging the workforce, along with a bit of theory around why these ideas work.
- Passing the Torch: Leading to Create Your Legacy
Has your organization thought about how it will help leaders move forward and prepare for their next chapter – for their Encore? Teresa Daly, Co-founder of Navigate Forward Inc., will help HR leaders understand how changing demographics impact work and life beyond the corporate career… both for themselves and their executive level employees. This session will offer a new model for leadership development which reflects this new reality and facilitates dialogue on the benefits and challenges of the new model.
- Re-Charging in the New Normal: The Path to Employee Financial Sanity and Success
Nathan Dungan, President & Founder of Share Save Spend, is helping to inspire and motivate people to take control of their entire financial lives. In this highly interactive presentation, Nathan will share critical insights and practical ideas to help you understand the effects that unstable money habits can have on your employees and your organization’s bottom line and offer valuable tips and tools that can be used immediately to help employees (and their families) alleviate current and future financial stress.
- Re-Energizing the Leadership Team
Laurie Schmidt and Deb Fowler are consultants with The Collabrium, LLC. The economic uncertainties and continuous change and shifts in business today have pushed leaders to their limits. Traditional tools are not always the answer to navigate in this “permanent white water.” In this session, Laurie and Deb will review recent research on the personal toll this economic downturn has had on leaders while you, as participants, will be introduced to creative tools and processes that can help re-energize these teams (and perhaps yourself as well!).
- The State of Engagement: What is it Really?
Don MacPherson, President and Co-Founder of Modern Survey, will share the results of US workforce engagement studies over the last two and a half years. In this discussion, he will show how engagement – particularly pride and loyalty – have fluctuated since the economic downturn and the recession. By reviewing what has happened historically, MacPherson will talk about what will happen to employee engagement as recessionary recovery continues and what that will mean for businesses as they look to retain their best employees.
- The 5% Factor: A Futurist’s Guide to Leading Change in a Need-it-Now World
Cecily Sommers is Founder and Leader of the Push Institute, a non-profit think tank that tracks significant global trends and their impact on organizations. This media-rich presentation will look at the future from four perspectives: how the organizational brain is wired for the “permanent present,” four constant forces shaping the future, some dramatic disruptions on the horizon and how to keep one’s own pulse on the future with limited resources.
LOCATION:
Golden Valley Country Club
7001 Golden Valley Road
Golden Valley, MN 55427
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