8:25 Chairperson’s Recap of Main Conference Day One

8:30 KEYNOTE: No Leadership, No Talent

Whether the economy is weak or strong, whether is it spring or fall, whether their salary is high or low – whatever the circumstances – some employees will choose to leave the company. But why do people stay or leave? How can employers motivate people to stay longer? When you bring on new employees, it’s important to remember the message you’re communicating to them about their value to the company and its culture and remember that, leadership drives the talent culture. This session will address:

• Embrace, use, and understand the changing landscape (social media)
• Beware analysis paralysis -> HR's arch enemy
• Stop Making Excuses -> Create the culture that will help attract and retain world-class talent

Speaker:

Jay Kuhns
SPHR, VP, Human Resources
All Children’s Hospital

9:15 Keeping the Talent You Work Hard to Attract: Onboarding Your New Employees

Ultimately, a successful onboarding program will help ensure that new employees quickly become productive employees and a profitable longterm investment for the company. If you’re going to work hard spending time and money to attract and hire them, why wouldn’t you prepare them to succeed? Western Connecticut Health Network has a successful onboarding program in place and will share their experiences with you in this session so you can:

• Design and implement a robust onboarding program for your organization
• Provide a welcoming “journey” for all new employees and accelerate their productivity
• Improve job satisfaction and retention rates among first-year employees
• Link your onboarding program to other key HR initiatives and employee programs

Speaker:

Cynthia Sefton
Onboarding Director
Western Connecticut Health Network

11:00 High-Touch and Scalable Strategies for Executive Onboarding

A challenge of large and culturally-diverse organizations is the successful integration of new executives into the business and corporate culture. Historically, Bank of America has taken a customized approach to senior executive on-boarding to accelerate the integration and productivity of new executives. Recently Bank of America has implemented scalable solutions that extend the reach of onboarding support to a broader base of new leaders. In this session you will learn Bank of America’s practices for:

• Facilitating a smooth integration experience for new executives
• Creating relationships necessary for their success
• Understanding stakeholder perceptions to assess onboarding progress

Speaker:

Tom Killen
Enterprise Leadership Development
Bank of America

11:45 “Group Therapy” Interactive Session
Financial Analysis to Support your Onboarding Business Case

The speaker sets the scenario and the group works together to problem solve

Many of you come to events to learn from one another in a more informal basis than the classroom style traditionally allows for. The “group therapy” learning format allows all of the delegates to share ideas around the topic and learn from one another. To facilitate this learning, the session leader will set a scenario around a timely issue within the industry and will document the solutions brought to the floor by the audience.

In Human Resources, the emphasis is generally on the people: how they feel, what they need, how they can be developed. Subsequent human resource interventions are designed to address these needs, but still need financial support from those that hold the purse strings. This is especially true when planning for onboarding solutions, as it can be difficult to make the case to spend money on people who aren’t even in the door, much less are proven performers. How can you make the business case?

• In this session, the group will work together to share ideas on:
• Metrics to use to build the business case
• Estimating costs
• Sharing the financial burden with the profit centers in the business

Speaker:

Cynthia Farrell
Director, Human Capital Program Management
OptumInsight

1:30 Building an Employment Brand On-Campus

The standard methods for recruiting talent on college campuses – interview sessions, career fairs, job postings – are not enough these days. The landscape is changing, and you do not want to get left behind. This session will show you how to incorporate new methods and eliminate some of your previous methods through:

• On campus employment brand strategies
• Targeted integration and partnership programs with schools and colleges
• Recruiting, developing and retaining the best student talent from the ground up

Speaker:

Scott Sanford
Employment Branding
Mosaic Sales Solutions

2:15 Employee Engagement: Making the workplace relationship a win-win

From the recruiting process to new hire onboarding and then employee retention, a relationship is being built and impacted, either positively or negatively. The employee-employer relationship needs to be mutually beneficial in order to be productive and add value to both the organization and the individual. Surveys are not always the answer but there are common sense ways for employers and employees to foster better engagement and make the relationship a successful one. This session will review:

• What can the C-Suite do to foster the relationship
• How important is transparency
• Why employees need to be accountable for doing their part

Speaker:

Kimberly Roden
Director, Human Resources
Cover-All Technologies

3:30 PANEL: Transitioning Talent: Effective Onboarding

The true measure of effective recruiting is the attraction and retention of top performers and high potential employees. When you hire a new employee, you want them to stay and grow with the company. A successful onboarding plan can help keep employees engaged and enable them to succeed in the business. More importantly, a smooth transition into their new role will also aid in their decision to stay with the company.

• The usage of technology to achieve best-in-class performance in new hire retention and productivity
• Actions that impact the perception and experience of prospective candidates and new employees
• Common pitfalls of onboarding new employees

Speakers:

Moderator:

Lisa Mahlum
VP Strategic Alliances
Verifications Inc.

Led By

Verifications Inc

4:15 Brilliance Bar: Ask the Experts

Brilliance Bar – a play on Apple’s Genius Bar. This “bar” is staffed by speakers, who are there to help delegates with a specific question.

Delegates always have questions at the end of each session, but there isn’t always enough time to answer each one. This session will provide speakers a platform to answer questions straight from the audience. So tell us, what keeps you up at night?

Speakers:

5:00 End of Conference, Chairperson Closing Remarks