Becoming A Magnet for Talent Weasels in the Woodpile: The Hidden Reasons Employees Disengage and Leave Creating An Employer-of-Choice Scorecard The 15 Pitfalls of Hiring Manage the Joining Up Process to Maximize First-Year Employee Engagement You Can't Afford The Luxury of Another Bad Manager! Building An Employment Brand That Attracts The Right Talent The Road to 2010 Engaging and Retaining All Four Generations of Workers Creating A Culture of "Career Self-Management" The Path of Most Resilience - Managing Your Career in Turbulent Times Manage the Joining-Up Process to Maximize First Year Engagement: Target audience: Line managers, staffing professionals, and human resource executives, managers, and professionals. Presentation objective: To provide best practice ideas related to the assimilation and on-boarding of new employees to maximize first-year engagement and longer-term retention. Session overview: • The business impact of poor assimilation • The “psychological contract” • What the employee and employer expect to give and get • “Realistic job preview” best practices • Answering the five questions all new hires ask • Five keys to getting them off to a great start • An ongoing orientation checklist • The six most common mistakes employers make • The unfolding decision to quit or commit • “Red carpet” best practices