Even with the economy slowing, the need for talented, dedicated employees is stronger than ever. Learn new ways to ensure your organization will have the necessary human capital for success now and in the future. Learn innovative strategies from the author of the critically acclaimed SMART STAFFING: How to Hire, Reward and Keep Top Employees for Your Growing Company which has also been published in the People's Republic of China. Discover how to win the talent war and have a productive and loyal workforce. Learn how Strategic Staffing can benefit your organization and other strategic initiatives, such as product innovation, positioning, and marketing.

• Top Executives
• Business Owners and Principals
• Human Resource Executives
• Managers Responsible for Hiring and Retaining Employees

To refocus and realign executives and managers' thinking about staffing to enable them to realize its importance as a key strategy to have talented staff, regardless of the labor situation. Retention and performance, even in this tight labor market, begin with hiring. Organizations can have ample customers if they will expend the effort, resources and creativity required; the same is true with staffing. This program will motivate them to "think outside the box" and apply today's unique ideas and strategies to this perplexing problem.

Executives and managers will discover not just innovative ways to identify, hire and retain top people, but ways to manage their staffing, just as other critical business objectives. This insightful, in-depth look at specific and proven successful strategies in hiring, rewarding and retaining employees will provide participants the opportunity to compare their organization with others and identify ways to improve its effectiveness.

This program will:

• Demonstrate new, innovative and creative ways of solving staffing problems using today's tools and traditional methods.
• Show ways to eliminate bad hires that not only drain productivity, but are also legal liabilities.
• Gain insight to make great hiring decisions, which result in hiring productive, positive employees.
• Provide innovative strategies and techniques that will generate ample quantities of quality candidates, regardless of the labor market
• Provide ways to identify top performing candidates
• Show how to develop employees to utilize all their capabilities
• Provide ways to increase job satisfaction and strengthen employee loyalty to lower the turnover

• The strategic importance of employees to the organization's success and profit
• The true cost of turnover to the organization
• Knowing what to look for defining the position and establishing the hiring criteria
• "Cutting-edge", not "bleeding-edge" candidate sourcing methods
• Using digital technology and new tools to supplement and automate staffing
• Uncovering the hidden candidate pool of Proactive Recruiting
• Matching the candidate to the position with pre-employment assessments
• Performance Based Interviewing™ to uncover the "real" candidate
• Ways to obtain references in even the most difficult of situations
• The critical step of background checks to verify performance
• Making the most important decision: Who to hire
• Developing, communicating and getting your offer accepted
• Orienting to get the employee off to a "positive" start
• Developing employee skills and knowledge for productivity and success
• Developing skils and knowledge of "today's always connected" workforce
• Turnover's real causes and how timing affects it
• What employees place value on and what will retain them
• The role of communications in retention and how to maximize it
• Keeping the "twenty something" employees engaged and motivated
• Measuring employee satisfaction and using this knowledge to manage retention
• Innovative financial incentives to keep employees - "golden handcuffs"
• Creative ways to keep your top performers
• Building teamwork and motivation to ensure results and retention

This program uses entertaining stories, "real world" examples, case studies, audience involvement, PowerPoint computer graphics and a participant workbook. Exercises and Action Plan development are used for longer programs to ensure programs are not only fun and inspiring, but also increase "take home" value and make implementation of strategies and ideas easier.

Executives and managers in any industry or group that is experiencing a shortage of top performing employees and who want to learn new and innovative ways to hire, reward and keep employees.

Any organization that wants to improve the quality and quantity of employees. It provides not just ideas, but tools and actions to implement the strategies to dramatically improve the quality of person hired and the management systems and audits to ensure behavior changes.

Anyone who wants to learn how to be a more effective recruiter and manager of human capital.