Our event is being held in the ballroom located on the southeast side of the hotel.  Park in the back.

2:00 p.m. ~ Registration & Book Signing
2:30 p.m. ~ Networking & Hors d'euvres/Refreshments
3:00 p.m. ~ Program
4:30 p.m. ~ Book Signing & Networking
5:00 p.m. ~ This concludes our fabulous afternoon

Sharon Jordan-Evans is a pioneer in the field of employee retention and engagement. She serves as a prominent speaker for numerous conferences and works with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Boeing, Disney, Lockheed, Cheesecake Factory, Monster, MTV, PBS, Sony, and Universal Studios.

She co-authored two Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The first, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, is the world's best-selling employee retention book and has been translated into 20 languages. The second, Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work, offers "anyone who works" easy-to-implement strategies for increasing job satisfaction. Love It, Don't Leave It has been translated into 15 languages.

Sharon has a Masters Degree in Organization Development and is a Professional Certified Coach, coaching the leaders companies can least afford to lose. She also serves as a resource for a number of national media, including Business 2.0, Chief Executive, CIO, Harvard Management Update, Working Woman, Investor Business Daily, Business Week and the LA Times.

Sharon lives in Cambria, California with her husband Mike and has four grown children, all on the west coast

Love 'Em or Lose 'Em:

Engaging & Keeping Talent in Any Economy

"It's a recession.  My employees aren't going anywhere."   Have you heard managers say that recently?  Have you said it?  Don't be so sure.  Good economy or bad, your best people always have choices.  And when the economy lights come back on, how many of your overworked, demoralized, under-appreciated workers will look for greener pastures?

And while they stay with you, how engaged are they?  Research shows that during times of uncertainty and stress employees spend more time chatting around the water cooler, updating resumes and logging onto Monster.com -- just to see what's out there.  In contrast, you need them focused and productive, now more than ever before.

Effective efforts to engage and retain talent shouldn't be something you turn on and off, syncing to the latest economic blip and the corresponding concern about keeping talent.  They work best when they are authentic and perennial, when you clearly believe in them and demonstrate it daily in your actions with the people you want on your team.

So where should you start?  With your managers.  Managers have phenomenal clout and responsibility in the ongoing race for engaged, productive talent.  Sharon Jordan-Evans has identified 26 strategies that they can use to help them win that race. In this session, Sharon will outline many of these strategies, and will provide hands-on tips that can be put into practice immediately.

By attending this session you will:

• Understand the perennial importance of employee engagement & retention
• Establish a new mindset about the leader's role in the retention dilemma
• Appreciate the significance of retention factors other than pay
• Dialogue about several retention strategies that will work for any leader, anywhere
• Leave with concrete "to-dos" and a renewed energy and optimism about the role that leaders at all levels can play in the race -- and the role of HR/OD in supporting those leaders.

Barnes & Noble will be on hand to handle the sales of Sharon's book.

HRCI CREDIT ~ PENDING

SPONSOR:  Staff Matters ~ Garrett Kowalewski