This session will provide participants with an overview of today’s workforce Talent. Many organizations are challenged with finding skilled employees in today’s market. This session will look at many factors that are affecting today’s workforce such as recruiting strategies, skill shortage, generations, work expectations and much more. At the end of the session participants will walk away with a battle plan to attract, retain and develop employees.

The State of the American Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights for U.S. Business Leaders report that of the approximately 100 million people in America who hold full-time jobs, 30 million (30%) are engaged and inspired at work, so we can assume they have a great boss. That’s close to 70% of American workers who are either not engaged – not inspired by their work or actively disengaged – not working for but against the company.  Many of these employees have ineffective or just bad bosses. The saying is, “People don’t leave companies they leave bad managers.” If your managers or leaders aren’t concerned about employee engagement or don’t see their role in employee engagement, then you will see good employees leaving for greener pastures. Now you have a bigger problem – a revolving door of employees. You hire new people to replace the ones who left; assign them to managers who don’t engage and quickly demotivate; they leave and the cycle starts all over.