Business Breakfast: Engaging, Developing and Retaining Your Critical Talent: Start Now or Pay Later
In this informative and interactive session, Beverly Kaye, with the assistance of Sylvia Juliano, Global Program Manager of GE, will lead us in a discussion of how organizations can establish or maintain development programs despite economic challenges, and how managers and line leaders can improve employee performance by satisfying development needs.
Gaining and sustaining a competitive edge, especially in the face of today's struggling global economy, will demand the commitment, energy and contributions of employees. Companies that don't nurture the talent they have will not survive.
Stability in the workforce doesn't just happen -- it is driven by leaders who recognize that high performance is necessary despite cuts being made and eroding market conditions. Shortsighted leaders believe that key talent will stay. They do not consider the productivity loss that results from disengaged employees.
Employees want fair pay; they also want challenging, meaningful work, a chance to learn and grow, recognition, respect and a manager who understands these factors. These are vital to becoming an employer of choice and to adapting and thriving in this shifting economy.
Savvy organizations are not waiting for the economy to change, they are clarifying expectations, studying their talent pool, examining the opportunities that are available for career mobility and committing time and resources to educating managers on their key role in this strategic effort.
GE has always been committed to grooming and growing their leaders. Realizing that this is more important than ever, they have adapted an approach that is built into their Global Leadership Education efforts. Sylva Juliano, their Global Program Manager will share her experiences and her lessons learned.
Sylva Juliano is a Global Program Manager, Leadership Education for GE Global Learning, Crotonville Leadership. Sylva joined GE in 1998 and since then has held various positions in the learning and development organization as an Instructional Designer, Facilitator and Client Relationship Manager. She joined Crotonville in 2008, and in her current role is responsible for design, development and implementation of global leadership curricula for GE leaders that focuses on building successful managers and leaders, improving employee engagement and driving business results. GE opened Crotonville in 1956, the world’s first corporate business school that now serves more than 10,000 people each year.
Dr. Beverly Kaye, Founder and CEO of Career Systems International, has been named this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award by ASTD (American Society for Training & Development). Bev is being recognized for her groundbreaking body of work and the significant impact she has had on learning and performance in the workplace. Bev is the author of Up Is Not The Only Way and co-author of Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em: Getting Good People to Stay, the Wall Street Journal best-selling book, co-authored with Sharon Jordan-Evans. Her firm, Career Systems International, has worked with most of the Fortune 500™ and continues to invent, create and design systems and strategies in development, engagement & retention.
