Creating a written engagement strategy to align your executive team is paramount to achieving your people goals for the year.

Yet, of the 90% of leaders who think an engagement strategy has an impact on business success, barely 25% of them have an actual documented strategy.

In this session, Santiago Jaramillo, (LinkedIn profile) CEO / Co-Founder of engagement platform Emplify,, will walk through a framework based on the philosophies found in his Santiago’s Best-Selling Book, Agile Engagement: How to Drive Lasting Results by Cultivating a Flexible, Responsive, and Collaborative Culture.

This strategy will help you tackle some of the most challenging problems you face internally, including gathering employee feedback, retaining top talent, and increasing productivity for unprecedented business success.

Key Takeaways: 

• Create your own personal engagement action summary to help you build your own strategy to align your executive team.
• Learn how millennials play a part in the future of the workforce and how to engage a multi-generational workforce.
• Get best practices and real-life examples of companies that have put their employee engagement strategies into action.
• See real data trends explaining some of the hardest culture challenges and how to craft your strategy to tackle them.

Attracting and retaining today’s top talent in is a lot like a game of finders, keepers. First, you need to find the talent. Then you need to keep them.

This is especially important in our competitive landscape because people are coming after your best employees, and your employees have more choices where to go.

How can you make sure you’re not losing your best employees faster than you’re able to attract new talent? If you don’t want to fight the war for talent on two fronts at once, you need both a good defense and a strong offense.

Now’s the time to make sure your culture is in great shape. Top Workplaces already do – they attract new talent and limit turnover with the strength of an intentional culture.

Their employees are engaged, they want to stay put, and they even refer their friends as ideal additions to the company. In fact, some report turnover rates as low as 14 percent.

Join Lisa Sordilla, (LinkedIn profile) Energage Vice President of Human Resources, who will present Energage research findings, share best practices and offer takeaways to help you get intentional about culture.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the key drivers of culture and performance
• Learn what drives employee engagement
• Know how to retain your best talent – and attract more of the same
• Explore opportunities, barriers and best practices

What If You Could Find Out Who Would Stay On The Job
Before You Ever Hired Them?

Reducing turnover is one of the biggest challenges facing HR professionals right now. A tight employment market means employers are searching for good employees in a shallow talent pool and working mightily to hold onto the workforce they already have.

More than a quarter of employees left their jobs voluntarily in 2018. That number is projected to increase to 35% within five years!

Learn:

• The current state of turnover
• What it means for employers and their hiring teams
• What leading companies are doing to attract and retain top talent more likely to stay after they are hired
• How emerging HR tech is transforming how to predict who will stay on the job

Join Carter Gibson PhD Senior Associate, Shaker & Rachel King (LinkedIn profile) PhD Senior Data Scientist, Shaker to find out what some employers already have learned about the drivers of retention and effective strategies for hiring candidates likely to stay.

You’ve heard it before: people don’t leave their jobs; they leave their managers. An employee’s relationship with their manager can make or break their experience—and your retention rate.

What can you do to ensure your managers are building strong, authentic relationships with their direct reports?

Join Anne Maltese (LinkedIn profile) Insights Director, Quantum Workplace; & Teresa Preister (LinkedIn profile) Insights Analyst, Quantum Workplace; to learn six essential HR tips for building authentic relationships at work.

Understand why workplace relationships really matter, how they’re built and destroyed, where and when you can measure the impact of relationships, and how to scale your manager coaching.

In this candidate-driven market, hiring is tough. HR and recruiting professionals need to work hard and act quickly to secure the top talent they need to drive the business strategy.

In addition, hiring managers and recruiters must use selection practices that are predictive of job performance.

• What are the screening and selection methods used in today’s organizations?
• Are recruiters and hiring managers making data-driven decisions about candidates?

Join Jenna N. Filipkowski, Ph.D. (LinkedIn profile) Director of Research, Human Capital Institute & MaryFran Heinsch (LinkedIn profile) Research Analyst, Human Capital Institute  as we share the findings from our latest Talent Pulse report.

You will:

• Learn the hiring and selection methods used at high-performing organizations
• Evaluate your organization’s hiring processes for high-volume, position-based, highly-specialized, senior leader, and internal candidates
• Hear trends and best practices for using technology in recruitment
• Identify the staff, skills, and training needed for talent acquisition at your organization

Note: All registrants will receive a copy of the research report.

The Conference Board reported an across-industries statistic in 2018 that only 51% of all employees were satisfied with their jobs. An even smaller percentage reported satisfaction with their potential for development opportunities and future growth.

Job satisfaction is not entirely dependent on economic health,
So what matters most?

In Cal Newport’s “So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love” he proposes that following your passion is bad career advice and that instead, one should develop their passion.

The phrase “follow your passion” was first introduced by Richard Bolles in his seminal book, “What Color is Your Parachute?”. According to Google’s Ngram Viewer, a tool that reports frequency of words and phrases found in all text, this phrase continues to rise in usage to the point that it is now used three times more frequently than when it was first introduced in the 1970s.

In this session, Dr. Tom Tonkin, (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant, Thought-Leadership and Advisory Services for Cornerstone on Demand, will address the top three areas where you can simultaneously develop your passion while increasing the needed skills for the current skills economy.

Tom will discuss:

• The need for employers to increase employee job autonomy
• The new essential skills of self-directed learning
• The power of focus on your career

Success stories, lessons learned and others available resources will be shared to get you down the right path.