Your approach to hiring is all wrong

A recent issue of the Harvard Business Review states: Businesses have never done as much hiring as they do today. They’ve never spent as much money doing it. And they’ve never done a worse job of it. Kathleen Quinn Votaw of TalenTrust will outline key findings from the HBR issue, offering expert context and clarification for executives of middle-market companies. Leave with best practices to:

• Fix the strategies and tactics failing most firms.
• Find the right balance of recruitment and retention.
• Shift focus to quality over quantity in building candidate pipelines.

Talent optimization: Out with the old, in with the new

CEOs must abandon old human capital paradigms in favor of more agile talent optimization strategies to retain the talent they need to stay competitive. Future-focused leaders own — and don’t delegate to HR — the important work of creating magnetic work cultures that attract the right talent. Future-focused leaders know, their most important decisions are people decisions. And they refuse to make them capriciously and without data.

In this session, Heather Haas will provide the information and tools you need to align your people strategy with your business strategy to achieve desired results.

• Gain a four-part discipline to annually align people strategy with business strategy.
• Identify the four forces of disengagement that create organizational drag, turnover and block achievement of results.
• Leave with practical ideas for creating magnetic work cultures to retain top talent.
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Winning the talent war

Despite declining optimism in the national economy and slowing expansion plans, more than half (56 percent) of Vistage members report plans to expand their workforce in the next year. The latest research from Vistage — with input captured from nearly 1,500 CEOs — reveals how small and midsize businesses are addressing retention and recruitment. In this session, learn the top talent management challenges reported by CEOs and how they are addressing these challenges to maintain growth.