If You Train Them, They Will Come: Using Career Development as a Recruiting Tool

2019 Talent Conference & Exposition
This session will provide ways to create employee development programs that will attract the best and the brightest candidates.

Today's candidates expect training and development to be a part of the workplace environment. For your organization to attract and retain the brightest and the best, you need to have training and development programs. Besides helping you get and keep good employees, employee development helps to ensure that the organization is ready rapid and constant change in the business world. But often, training and development are the worst-funded and first-cut expenses. In addition, smaller and not-for-profit organizations have limits on available resources for employee development. This session will use audience participation and the speaker's 30 years of HR and employee development experience to provide you with tips and ideas you can take back to the workplace to create a good and attractive development plan.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about the importance of individualized employee development.
  • Discover how to take advantage of development methods beyond traditional classroom approaches.
  • Measure and balance the value of development for the individual employee and the organization.
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Presenter: 

Phyllis G. Hartman, SHRM-SCP, MSHRM

Phyllis G.
Hartman, SHRM-SCP, MSHRM

Phyllis G. Hartman, SHRM-SCP, President, PGHR Consulting, Inc. has 30+ years in HR currently work with small and mid-sized organizations.

She’s worked in NFP management and manufacturing and holds an MSHR from La Roche University.

Phyllis served on the board of the Homeless Children’s Education Fund and volunteers for the Bayer Center for NFP Management.

Phyllis presented sessions for SHRM and business groups and she’s served as a Visiting Professor for La Roche University.

She authored: A Managers Guide to Developing Competencies in HR Staff; Looking to Hire an HR Leader? and Never Get Lost Again: Navigating Your HR Career.

Location: 
Bayou CD
Amount of Credit: 
1.00
Credit Type: 
SHRM PDCs
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Business Acumen
HR Expertise
Relationship Management
Intended Audience: 
Mid-Level
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