Diane L. Dunton, President, Potential Released Consulting Services
Mentoring as a Way to Build Bridges
Having a mentor in one’s professional life can be the key to success
for any career. Creating mentoring programs can enhance employee
satisfaction both for the mentor and the person being mentored. Linking
mentoring with succession planning can ensure success of an internal
mentoring program.
In this interactive workshop participants will:
- Explore how to create a mentoring program.
- Identify characteristics of effective mentors.
- Discuss the link between mentoring and succession planning.
Participants will leave with an understanding of the benefits of
mentoring, to employees and your company.
Sandy Lewis, Director of Human Resources, ipCapital Group
Strength Based Organizations
Managing to people’s strengths is a universal approach that bridges
generational and performance gaps. The strengths concept encourages
the creation of performance management processes, development
programs, and career paths. Once created, these programs enable
employees and the systems that support them to function in unison and
maximize the best in people.
As HR professionals we need to value what we ourselves bring to our
organizations before we can create positive change.
This workshop will cover:
- Positive emotion: Why do we care about this in the workplace?
- Finding your strengths: The foundation.
- Engagement and meaning at work: Real issues for retention.
- Authentic leadership: How we encourage authenticity in our leadership.
- Appreciative inquiry: How asking the right questions can transform
organizations.
Sandy will take you through exercises that will help you begin to unveil
your strengths and give you tools to turn your workplace into a strength
based organization.
Tammy Hughes, President, The Heim Group
Gender Differences in the Workplace
Men and women grow up in different cultures. As a result we learn
different lessons about “appropriate” behavior. What seems natural to
one gender can seem mysterious and baffling to the other. We need
to understand and value each other’s cultures in order to be successful
together both professionally and personally.
In this interactive session, Tammy will explain the different ways men
and women speak and how it is often misread. She will also:
- Describe the lessons of the other gender and how behaviors are often
seen as problematic.
- Identify nonverbal barriers due to gender differences.
- Provide three approaches to dealing with gender-related problems.
- Explore “hierarchy vs. flat structure” and “goal focus vs. process focus.”
Participants will enhance their communication skills with regard to
gender diversity. They will come away with a greater awareness and
tools to help bridge the gender gap in the workplace and in their
personal lives.
Matt Cookson, Associate Vice Chancellor for External Relations, University System of New Hampshire & Kate Benway, Marketing Manager, City of Manchester, NH
The 55% Initiative: An Effort to Encourage More NH College Grads to Stay in NH
New Hampshire is a great state in which to live. Yet, we face a looming
crisis. The state’s population is the sixth oldest nationally and many baby
boomers are getting close to retirement. Employers are having trouble
finding skilled workers, and college graduates are leaving the state at
too high a rate to meet employment needs.
About 50% of the 16,000 individuals who earn degrees or certificates
each year leave NH, representing a huge “brain drain” that darkens
the overall employment outlook and hinders the state’s growth. The 55%
Initiative sets a goal of convincing an additional 800 new graduates to
stay here.
Matt Cookson, Assistant Chancellor of USNH, will share results of
a comprehensive survey of college seniors and recent alumni, and
highlight a “tourism-like” marketing campaign aimed at our future
college graduates. HR’s role in this initiative is critical to its success by
connecting creative jobs with the student body and future workforce.
Find out how you can become actively involved in building this unique
state-wide support network, and encourage students to “work, play and
stay” in NH.
Peter Cooke, Cooke Associates
Creating a Culture of Integrity
Participants will create a code of ethics — a statement of shared ethical
values that guide actions, behaviors, decisions, policies, procedures
and strategic planning. They will learn proven methods for making a
code a living, breathing, working document. Once a code has become
institutionalized, employees (and even customers) will become more
engaged, which will improve end results. In addition to increasing
business performance, an embedded code will improve recruitment and
retention while reducing expenses related to turnover, legal problems,
and absenteeism. In this interactive session, Peter will help participants:
- Understand the purpose of a code of ethics, its applications, and the
difference between ethical and instrumental values.
- Develop a code of ethics via an engaging process (developed by the
Institute for Global Ethics) that can be transferred to most any workplace
that wishes to create a culture of integrity.
- Build bridges between different employees, stakeholder groups, and
entities within an organizational system.
Mac Fulfer, Attorney/Author/Face Reader
Amazing Face Reading
Mac is back by popular demand from the inaugural GSHR
conference. This session will provide participants with an accurate
and immediate assessment tool of each person they meet.
Anger, stress, deception, confusion and wariness are just a few
characteristics that can be seen immediately on a person’s face.
However, this session will also provide a deeper insight into each
person’s special gifts and challenges, i.e. detail-oriented perfectionist
vs. planning committee visionary. This tool creates an empathic
connection between management and employees. Participants will
learn to:
- improve your negotiating, hiring and selling skills.
- increase your ability to communicate.
- gain insight into unique personality traits.
- identify character strengths and challenges.
Joanne Layne, Senior Vice President, Lee Hecht Harrison
HR Leadership - The Bridge From Challenge to Success
This interactive session will explore the value proposition of HR at a
time when organizations are faced with an aging workforce, retention
challenges, engagement issues, differing generational needs and
employee skill gaps. We will examine strategies and tools designed
to bridge current challenges to future success though HR leadership.
Participants will develop actionable plans to connect immediate and
long term solutions to their organization’s success. This special strategic
session will cover:
- Talent Management — The evolution, trends, industry challenges.
- Best Practices in Leadership Development, Career Development and
Retention.
- Strategic Succession Planning — Is your talent pipeline ready now?
- Small Group Application —Trends impacting your organization,
implications, and what you will need over the next three years.
Bridging the Generation Gap
Cam Marston, Founder and President of Generational Insights
Gaps exist between the generations in our workforce today. There
are gaps in attitudes, expectations, goals, and reasons for working.
Unless these gaps are identified and explored, then no bridges
can be built to connect them. For over ten years, Cam Marston has
explored what separates the generations and has helped many
diverse companies by sharing his knowledge.
In Cam’s keynote presentation he will teach us to look differently
at the generations. He will also provide specific tools, ideas and
tactics based on his research; and share successful results within
companies of various industries. Most importantly, Cam will help us
understand ourselves and how we relate to others. Only then can
we begin to appreciate the differences in those around us, so we
can direct our collective efforts to bridge the generation gap!
To see his video click here. To download Windows Media Player, click here.
We look forward to welcoming Cam Marston and you to the 10th Annual 2008 Granite State Human Resources Conference, Tuesday May 6, 2008 at The Expo in the Radisson, Manchester.
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