Top talent in your organization will have unprecedented opportunities to change jobs. This programme explores the role that you, as an engaged manager, play in creating employment experiences to help you develop and keep your key employees.

To retain the talent that you currently have, managers must themselves be actively engaged in working with staff, keeping them involved and building ‘strategic opportunities’ for their key employees.

This two-day program introduces you to the strategies that engaged managers use to ward off competitors and keep their top talent from leaving. In addition to learning what these strategies are and how to use them, you’ll also take away a personalized plan that you can put into action immediately.

The course is essential learning for all managers who need engaged employees to drive business success.

Course Objectives:

• Understand the link between engaged management practices and the retention of great employees

• Identify the characteristics of the employees you want to   retain

• Learn to see yourself as a manager of investments in talent

• Implement new management strategies that create an engaging, positive work experience for your high-potential employees

• Proactively position yourself, your department and your company to fend off competitors’ attempts to lure your top talent

Who Should Attend:

• Senior Management

• Managers

• HR Professionals

Course Leader:

Tim Rutledge, Ph.D.

Tim Rutledge is an experienced Human Resources Development practitioner with a background in financial services, manufacturing, and health care. He specializes in helping companies to identify and keep those employees they need to keep.

Tim works with diverse organizations to create workplaces that offer engaging employment experiences and career development strategies that stop key employees from leaving an organization.

Tim is also a former trustee of the Toronto Board of Education, and Past President and Business Co-Chair of the Toronto Training Board.

Tim is available for Public Seminars, In-House Training, Consulting and Coaching on Employee Engagement in the ASEAN region.

Tim's new book ‘Getting Engaged: The New Workplace Loyalty’, is provided to each program participant, as a permanent learning resource.
 

REVIEW
Employee engagement, defined by Dr. Rutledge as employees being attracted to, committed to and fascinated with their work, is critical to any retention strategy that prevents individuals from leaving a company. For years, organizations assumed that replacing one employee with another was relatively easy. But soon there will be more jobs than talented people to fill them and this will endure as the new status quo for years to come. The essence of employee retention rests at the grassroots level with the relationship between managers and employees. This relationship is fundamental to any initiative related to improved employee engagement in the workplace - it is the single-most important element in an employee's overall employment experience. Employees look to their managers for challenging work, recognition of their achievements and opportunities to learn and grow on the job. Managers who fail to meet their employees' expectations will lose their top talent to another firm. Published by Mattanie Press, Getting Engaged: The New Workplace Loyalty expertly explores the manager-employee dynamic as it manifests itself in all workplaces, and suggests best practices and better management techniques that keep top performers engaged with their work.
- Human Capital Institute