An insightful and essential workshop on recruitment strategy and planning designed to improve the outcomes of your employee recruitment and retention, focusing on a competency-based approach. This one day workshop aims more to develop questions than to seek immediate solutions to complex problems.

Course Objectives

Comparing successful in-house competencies.
Organising a framework and systems to identify competencies in others.
Marketing your new programme internally and to the outside world.
Providing new and viable career paths.
Employing new talent.
Training graduates and experienced hires to develop future leaders.
Evaluating their ‘fit' in the changing organisation.
Nurturing them for maximum retention.
Testing and developing the process to maintain momentum, ‘buy-in' and initiative.

Course Designed For

The workshop is suitable for Senior Management and Board level employees who will have a direct impact on the shaping of ‘the new company' and its recruitment and retention strategy. It would be beneficial to have representatives from various senior levels and functions including HR, Operations, Finance, IT, Sales and Marketing, in order to provide input about current recruitment and retention processes (and their effects) throughout your organisation.

Maximum Number of Delegates

Eight

In-House Delivery Option Available

Yes - Please note this course is delivered on an in-house basis only for a minimum of 5 delegates

Where Does Our Company Want to Be in 5/10 Years Time?

What needs to be delivered to achieve this
Where are the gaps in the company's current ability to do so
People skills and culture – what changes would make our task easier

Who is 'Successful' in the Company and Why?

Identifying ‘successful' people and teams in the organisation
Why are they successful?
What drives them (management structure, goals and leadership)
Isolating successful competencies in behaviour

What are Competencies (and how can they help)

The UK vs. US versions of competencies in organisations
Putting them together
A simple framework for applying this to your company

Re-evaluating the Current Workforce

Why do people join your company?
Why do you lose ‘good people'?
What kind of people do you generally retain?
Why current employees are not adopting the new styles of behaviour required to deliver change

Developing New Skills Within the Established Employee Base

Identifying talent in the organisation
Nurturing future talent development
Selling vision for a new way of working

‘A New Breed of Employee'

The issue is of employee attraction
Understanding the labour market
Advertising your employer brand
Encouraging higher quality and quantity of response to recruitment advertisements
Understanding what makes some applicants stand out from the crowd