Is L&D prepared for the tsunami of change in the Digital Age?

By now, you’ve heard of recruitment marketing. “Post and Pray” is now a thing of the past when it comes to recruiting. Recruitment Marketing is how you become proactive, stay competitive, in control of your brand, build a talent network, and attract close candidates faster. What you will learn: Why HR should care about marketing. How to align marketing with recruiting to increase candidate attraction. How passive candidate engagement leads to fill jobs more quickly. Candidate Engagement Best Practices.

Employees are quitting their jobs at a record pace in the search for something better. But what needs to be “better?” Better pay? Better managers? More meaningful work? Leaders are once again scrambling to solve a complex problem with many possible answers, during a pandemic that has scattered their workforce and emptied physical offices. Without good alternatives, many leaders are turning to a worn-out playbook to control the problem: Enticing employees through increased pay or other transactional benefits. But that fails to address the heart of the issue.

In the day-to-day busy-ness, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that employees are actually people. Losing the personal touch in HR, employees begin to feel like numbers on a spreadsheet rather than a valued individual human. While many want to maintain that human connection it’s no surprise it falls by the wayside. There is so much time is spent with tedious, repetitive, and administrative tasks. We simply have no time to build relationships with employees, let alone focus on a strategy to do so.

As a recent survey noted, many organizations have a disconnect between the drafting and issuing of handbook policies and the practices that ensure those policies are effectively implemented.To help alleviate this problem, this training session reviews current employee handbook policies and discusses how organizations can reduce the gap between policy issuance and effective implementation.