Onboarding Talent
How to Recruit, Retain, and Develop Top-Drawer Talent
Conference: October 21 and 22, 2008
Optional Workshops: October 23, 2008
Calgary Stampede · Calgary, Alberta
Conference Program Agenda - Day One
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
8:00 - 9:00 |
9:00 - 9:10
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
9:10 - 10:10
High-Volume Recruitment: How to Find Large Numbers of Candidates in a Difficult Labour Market
Laura Randall, Senior Director of Recruitment and Retention, Loblaw
- How to design a hiring toolkit-in-a-box to meet the high demand for entry-level roles in retail across the nation and apply it to any brand in your organization
- How to mobilize and energize your recruiters to take ownership of the process
- Leveraging internal resources: marketing, advertising, PR, and brand managers
- Design a recruitment campaign for your internal employees and your customers that will ensure success
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Networking Break |
10:10 - 10:30 |
10:30 - 11:30
Using an Onboarding Program to Maximize the Effectiveness of Your HR Programs
Suzanne Gagnon, Manager, Consulting Services, DDI Canada
- Analyzing onboarding programs to measure employee engagement
- Strategies for developing effective onboarding programs or improving existing onboarding programs in your organization
- Maximizing the use of employee data obtained in interviews to reduce turnover
11:30 - 12:30
Case Study
Role of Leadership in Developing a Company Culture
Chris Bedford, President and CEO, Karo Group
- Building a strong company culture
- Harvest new ideas and realize the value of an ongoing dialogue with employees
- Understanding poor communication as a causal factor in
- employee dissatisfaction
- low morale
- decreased workforce productivity
Karo Group was rated ninth of the 50 best places to work by Great Place to Work Institute Canada.
| 12:30 - 1:30 |
Luncheon Break |
12:30 - 1:30 |
1:45 - 2:45
Attracting New Talent: How a Strong Employer Brand Can Get You the Employees You Need
Dan DeMaioNewton, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Monster Government Solutions
- Taking a marketing and headhunting approach to recruiting
- Effective ways to keep up with the changing labour market
- How to make your organization an employee's first choice
- Implementing the right changes to your employer brand to directly enhance your recruiting strategies
- E-recruiting: making jobs more widely accessible
| 2:45 - 3:00 |
Networking Break |
2:45 - 3:00 |
3:00 - 4:00
Battle of the Generations: Leadership across Generational Divides
Stephanie Paquet, Senior Consultant, Knightsbridge
- Increase your awareness of the generational differences surrounding you
- Get tools to recruit, motivate, and retain high-performance employees from multiple generations
- Bridge the generational gaps in your organization by maximizing each group's unique strengths
4:00 - 5:00
Using Employee Engagement Techniques to Maximize Productivity and Reduce Turnover
Louise Wilson, Senior Consultant, Towers Perrin
- Determining what really drives employee engagement
- Creating a model for high performance
- Strategies to obtain higher investment from employees
- Understanding you employees as well as you understand your customers
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