Breakfast

Call Meeting to Order & Introductions

Recruiting Best Practices from the Front Lines
How are staffing firms able to fill all those open positions? It’s their only focus! Get the tips and tricks for recruiting from someone with over 15 years of recruiting experience and hear what is working to fill all those positions today.
Iris Miller, Director of National Accounts, Accurate Personnel Services

Recruiting the Next Generation of Technicians: How to Partner with your Local Vocational School
Vocational schools are an important piece of the recruiting puzzle for technicians. How can you make the most of the services they offer? Julie and Ian will share how to partner with your local vocational school to maximize your ability to recruit and hire qualified techs.
Julie Mueller, Campus President & Ian Hardie, Employment Services Director, Universal Technical Institute

Break

Champagne Talent Management on a Shoestring Budget
We would all love to have unlimited resources available for our candidate searches, but that is simply not the reality. Carrie will share how to some basics of branding, job posting, and hiring while not breaking the bank.
Carrie Leonard, Director of Human Resources, Compusystems

Why Should I Join Your Company? Answering This Question Before It’s Asked
What sets you apart from the competition when candidates are considering multiple job opportunities? It’s your story! Cathy and Sue will share practical tools and tips for telling your company’s story to attract employees.
Cathy Marcheschi, Communications Manager & Sue Eaglebarger, Vice President, Human Resources, Lawson Products, Inc.

Lunch

From Recruitment to Retirement: How to Make the Most of Your Employee Experience
Now that you’ve hired those great people, you have to keep them! Maria will share strategies for creating a highly engaged workforce and retaining top talent through hiring, managing, and training your people from the beginning to end of their tenure with you.
Maria Faletti, MS, SPHR, Human Resources Client Executive, ADP

Managing to Accelerate Performance and Increase Employee Engagement
Unfortunately, even in the best workforce, performance issues arise. How can you manage these in a way that not only improves performance, but increases engagement and retention at the same time? Michelle will share strategies to make the most of your performance management process.
Michelle Momeyer, HR Business Partner, Jones Lang LaSalle

Break

NationaLease Update
NationaLease has some tools and resources available to our members to help with your recruiting efforts. Jane will review these resources and share some of the ways NationaLease Home Office can support you.
Jane Clark, VP Member Services, NationaLease

Best Practices Round Table
Here’s your chance to hear from the real experts—your peers! Bring your questions and ideas for an open discussion on challenges you’re facing and solutions that are working for your company.

Dinner

Breakfast

A Seven-Step Program for Making Your Company Lawsuit-Proof
Every company faces the risk of disputes with employees, from hiring to firing and at every point in between. Neil will cover a wide range of areas within employment law to arm attendees with a plan for how to bulletproof their HR practices including:

• How to safely use (or not use) background checks, credit history, arrest records, and social media
• How to make defensible disciplinary and termination decisions
• What you should (and should never) say to an employee seeking a medical accommodation or leave of absence
• How to drastically reduce the chances of an overtime or wage dispute

Neil Dishman, Partner, Jackson Lewis

Lunch (box lunch available)

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