Breakfast

Call Meeting to Order & Introductions
Steve Tyner, Vice President of Human Resources, Conway Beam NationaLease

Where Are The Candidates? Recruiting Basics, Tips, and Tricks in the Online World
As the world around us becomes more digitized, recruiting strategies shift from a “Now Hiring” sign on a door to virtual sourcing. Learn the basics of online recruiting, job ad optimization, and candidate attraction techniques. We will explore the topics of social media sourcing, candidate pipeline building, and tools available to effectively attract the best candidates.
Paul Nowicki, Director of Sales and Operations, TransTechs

Top 10 Employee Handbook Mistakes Organizations Make
Does your company have a complete, up-to-date, professionally written Employee Handbook? Does it communicate your company’s policies and culture to employees, while protecting you from potential litigation, noncompliance, and other employment risks and exposures? If you can’t answer with an unqualified “yes,” you don’t want to miss this session. Jason Banuski will share his expertise by teaching you how to successfully implement one of your business’s most important documents.
Jason Banuski, President, HR One

Break

Affordable Care Act (ACA): Repeal? Replace?
President Trump and Republican congressional leaders have announced repeatedly their intention to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). How will that play out and what does it mean for your company? Tom Hutchinson will join us to share his insight about how we can cope with the current uncertainty, as well as the likely outcomes.
Tom Hutchinson, Vice President & Principal, Axion RMS, Ltd.

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

Lunch

How to Build an Apprenticeship Program for Techs
Given the current shortage of techs, companies are being forced to find creative solutions to the problem of hiring qualified techs. Hear what one NationaLease member did to “grow their own” diesel techs.
Chris Disantis, Director of Training & Field Technical Support, Aim NationaLease

Issues in HR Law:  Working Wearables
New technology in the workplace: an enhancement, a distraction, or a security problem? Attorney Tawny Alvarez will discuss the risks and benefits of wearable technology in a work environment, as well as how to approach them.
Tawny Alvarez, Associate, Verrill Dana

Break

Issues in HR Law:  Medical Marijuana
Attorney Tawny Alvarez will discuss pertinent issues in the future of marijuana, both in and out of the workplace.
Tawny Alvarez, Associate, Verrill Dana

Best Practices Roundtable
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.
Steve Tyner, Vice President of Human Resources, Conway Beam NationaLease

Dinner

Breakfast

Issues in HR Law:  Preparing for an I-9 Audit & Creating a Disciplinary Action Plan
The new (and improved?) I-9 Form has been issued, and if you’re not using it for employees who were hired, or who required recertification, on or after January 22 of this year, you could be fined anywhere from $216 to $2,156 for each and every I-9 Form violation. Attorney Tawny Alvarez will get us up to date on I-9 issues, as well as how to create a disciplinary action plan that actually works and protects your company.
Tawny Alvarez, Associate, Verrill Dana

Break

How to Raise Your Employee Engagement Score: A Manager’s Guide
Only about 30 percent of US employees are “engaged,” according to workplace behavioral experts. The other 70 percent are sleepwalking at best, actively sabotaging their company at worst, and all of them are costing your company money.  Back by popular demand, Dick Finnegan will help us learn what we can do to beat the statistics.
Dick Finnegan, CEO, C-Suite Analytics

Lunch (box lunch available)

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