Meeting/Event Information

Employee Engagement is Stuck! Where do We Go From Here?
Presented by Mark McWatters, Director of Client Solutions, Work Institute

Employee Engagement is "stuck!"  Every year the research is published reporting the same bleak story.  We are not moving the needle on employee engagement.  The Deloitte 2015 Human Capital Report cited "culture and engagement" as the most important human capital issue facing organizations today.  The research is clear on one thing - higher levels of employee engagement consistently correlate to higher revenues and greater stakeholder value.  So why do we keep approaching employee engagement in the same way.

Once every one to two years we conduct an employee engagement study, several months later we identify a few issues and then a few months later we create some type of action plan to hopefully impact perceptions and behaviors. Is it working? In most cases not even close.  

It is time we start thinking and acting differently with respect to employee engagement.  In this session you will learn:

1. The biases and flawed nature of typical engagement studies
2. The newest trends in collecting employee feedback
3. How to think differently about rating scales
4. Where the linchpin in employee engagement is located
5. Impacting employee engagement must become a "cause" not an "event"

Schedule: Doors open at 7:00 am for registration and networking. Buffet breakfast begins at 7:20 am, and the presentation starts promptly at 8:00 am. 

Breakfast:

• Members: $18 by end of business Monday, October 31, $24 afterwards.*
  
• Future Members: $24 by end of business Monday, October 31, $32 afterwards.* (See below)**
• MT|SHRM Students: $9 by end of business Monday, October 31, $12 afterwards.*
  

*On-line registration will close by end of business 2 days prior to the event. Our ability to accommodate walk-in registrations will be based on space availability.

Biography:As Director of Client Solutions at Work Institute, Mark is a trusted advisor to companies across the world to help them better understand their workforce and positively improve employee retention and engagement. In his time at Work Institute, Mark has helped Fortune 500 companies solve tough issues like first year turnover and key departmental turnover  by providing leaders with trustworthy, actionable data to affect change.

Mark graduated with degrees in Marketing and Spanish at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Mark lives with his wife, Lauren, in Germantown.

** Up to $45 of any Guest registration may be applied towards a new 1 year MT|SHRM Membership within 60 days of the event attended.  Please call Shannan at (615) 499-5150 to take advantage.