Nurturing Employee Engagement

In today's job market, retaining key talent is more important than ever. Learning is an integral part of the employee lifecycle from hire to retire and providing growth opportunities to your workforce throughout this cycle increases overall retention. Come learn about how injecting learning into recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing skill and career development will increase your overall retention numbers.

Hiring new employees is only part of the battle. Onboarding them is another. In this session find out what works and what to avoid with modern digital learning and get guiding principles and a blueprint for digital learning strategies – delivered as TWO mini-case studies.

Many companies have fallen victim to the ominous skills gap but only because it’s easier to place blame somewhere else than to address the issue head on. If you’re struggling to find qualified candidates, you might need to take a deeper look at your organization and ask some pointed questions. Are there areas of the recruiting process that are leading to skill gaps? Has a formal assessment been done to uncover skill gaps? Are you using modern learning methods to bridge gaps by upskilling your current workforce.

If you want to attract the right fit talent for your team, you have to lead with your values and show potential candidates who you are and what you stand for as an organization. Does your company have a Diversity and Inclusion Group that meets regularly? What about other Employee Resource Groups, or inclusive company policies? Today’s top talent want first hand insight into those aspects of your culture and core values when deciding if a company is a good fit for them, so they can actually envision themselves working there every day—and being successful.