Lunch n' Learn (Retention of Staff and Effective Recruitment Strategies!) - November 16, 2016
Date and Time
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM MST
Wednesday November 16, 2016
Registration: 11:30 am
Lunch and Info Session: 11:45 am to 1:30 pm
Location
The Days Inn - Cochrane
5 Westside Drive
Fees/Admission
Members Rate: $15 (online payment)
Non-members Rate: $25 (online payment)
If paying at the door: $20 for members or $30 for non-members
Contact Information
The Cochrane & District Chamber of Commerce: 403-932-0320
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Description
Join us for our next Lunch n' Learn on Wednesday November 16, 2016!
Topic: Effective Recruitment Strategies for your Business
Del Edwards, Blue Sky View Consulting, will examine how to be effective in your recruitment strategy to ensure your business is staffed to meet your needs. All of which affects the bottom line and profit margins. It will look at the following areas:
- Reasons people leave jobs.
- Advantages to your business of careful selection of employees.
- Recruitment costs – where they hide so you don’t notice.
- Sensible objectives of any recruitment campaign.
- Do you actually need to recruit? – how to look at what you need & what your initial thoughts & considerations should be.
- Documents to help us find the right person – Job Descriptions, person specifications & a well-crafted advert.
- Where do we advertise? – a range of places to attract the right people to your business.
- When the applicants arrive – what to look for.
- Structuring your interviews – a 5 stage plan to help you succeed.
- Question technique – what to ask and why.
- Providing your applicants with an accurate and positive picture of your business & the job.
- Legal obligations.
What you will leave with:
- A positive recruitment plan.
- Sample job descriptions & person specifications.
- Example adverts.
- Question banks to use.
- Document templates to help you plan your and carry out your recruitment successfully.
Bio of Del Edwards, Blue Sky View Consulting
With over 25 years’ experience in the Leadership & Organizational development field, & as a new Canadian Citizen, my purpose & passion is to support organizations & individuals to grow their leadership capacity, implement & manage change successfully & achieve their full potential through using an international perspective. This is done with a passion for making a clear difference.
I am CTDP accredited through the Canadian Society for Training & Development & a holder of a Level 7 Certificate (Masters) in Executive coaching & Leadership Mentoring along with a post-grad certificate in Training & Development.
Specialized Areas of work:
- Instructional design and facilitation of long lasting leadership development & team building programs to support appropriate skill and competency development in both teams and individuals – including internationally recognized management programs.
- Competency design and implementation.
- Skills analysis.
- Design & implementation of performance review processes to support appropriate skills and competency development & improve performance.
- Succession Planning/Talent Management.
- Recruitment initiatives to ensure the right people are hired.
- OD initiatives such as organizational structure, job descriptions, policies, procedures etc.
- Implementation of change to shift culture and improve performance.
Clients include a variety of multi-site, customer-facing businesses, including retail, wholesale food and drink industries, catering & Government organizations, both in Canada and UK as well as individual coaching clients.
www.blueskyviewconsulting.com
Refund Policy
Cancellations made without 48 hours notice will not be refunded. All no shows will be invoiced. In the event of cancellation, or event changes, ONLY those registered will be contacted.
Contacts
Further information on this event can be obtained by contacting the Cochrane Chamber office at c.business@cochranechamber.ca.
Would you like to sponsor this event? Contact the Chamber office at c.business@cochranechamber.ca
