Are you seeing higher voluntary turnover? Are you struggling with retention? Learn what successful companies do via practical best practices and case studies. This session will guide you through an employee engagement roadmap that will help you build a more engaged workforce while following 10 practical steps. Focus areas will include: why you need to think like marketers; connect your hiring to your brand; why your performance appraisal system has become the fax machine; why money is now important to Gen Y and especially Gen X; why empathy is the new black; reward and recognition systems that WORK. This session will help you:

• Create the business case that employee engagement is a business driver.
• Connect one's hiring to your marketing efforts.
• Create a culture of transparency, communication, accountability, and measurement.
• Learn new approaches to performance management.
• Leverage EMPATHY as a leadership driver.