How to attract and keep top talent in a time of unprecedented choice
We are experiencing a business environment where access to top talent is limiting growth for an increasing number of organizations. As a result, the most desirable people not only have more choices of where they can work, but also have increased expectations of their employees. This fact has many organization struggling with how to create an environment that top talent wants to be and wants to grow.
Meeting the workforce challenge means changing the game
In this workshop you will be introduced to powerful concepts that will provoke creative ideas you can implement to not only improve your ability to attract the talent you need now, but also to create an environment where that talent wants to grow more valuable over time. Even more importantly, this workshop is designed around creating an experience where you and other attendees will learn to apply these concepts in real-time, and design them to meet the unique culture and objectives of your own organizations.
Who should attend and why
This workshop is designed for executives responsible for meeting their organizations talent demand, and leaders implementing HR, Recruiting and talent development initiatives. Attendees of this workshop will leave this experience an awareness of and practice with:
- A new, and powerful distinction that will allow you to see new and creative possibilities in which to meet the challenge
- Three key attributes that if your organization demonstrates can increase the engage ment level of every member of your organization now and in the future
- Pragmatic things you can apply that will to vastly improve the Interview Process, Performance Reviews and Talent Develpment practices
About your Facilitators
This experience will be particularly unique not only because of the content, but also due to the unique perspectives of the facilitators. Brent Robertson, of Future Design Firm Fathom, will be leveraging his perspective on the overall organizational eco-system required to attract and keep top talent, and Amy Allen, HR Advisory Services Partner at BlumShapiro, will be drawing upon her extensive HR experience to point to specific applications of ideas that have made a big difference for some of the most recognized companies in the world.
Amy Allen
HR Advisory Services Parter at BlumShapiro
As a partner with BlumShapiro, Amy Allen will be leading our Human Resource Consulting Practice where she will be focusing on working with clients on all their human resource needs from talent acquisition and management, to employee retention and operations and infrastructure. Amy has over 25 years of experience in human resources, including holding executive roles at Suffolk Construction, The Boston Globe, Staples and other large national organizations before launching her own consulting business.
Brent Robertson
Future Designer and Co-Founder of Future Design Firm, Fathom.net
Brent works with leaders to design futures worth fighting for™. A partner at Fathom, he champions an approach to strategic planning, employee engagement, leadership succession and market differentiation that prioritizes people and relationships. As a result, his clients don’t simply plan their futures, they bring them to life through the energy of organization-wide involvement in, and commitment to, generating valuable businesses that matter. Besides his client work, Brent is often found speaking at prestigious associations like SHRM, ATD, HRLF about how organizations that include more humanity in their design, outperform those that don’t, especially when it relates to talent acquisition and retention. And is deeply involved in exploring the cutting edge of the workforce of the future with organizations like SalesForce and IndustryWeek.
