Current research points to the erosion of employee engagement as the single greatest business challenge that organizations face today. The majority of your scientists, engineers and IT professionals are working hard, but given the economic difficulties we now face, longer hours, time pressures and on-going uncertainty is having an adverse affect on today’s technical workforce. Innovation, quality, collaboration and time to market are all compromised if you have a technical workforce which is not fully engaged. And there is a unique set of challenges that come with engaging technical professionals.

In this audio conference, our speaker presents research on how the genetic wiring of most technical professionals is different than other occupational groups, the newest research on engagement and how it relates to the technical workforce, and top strategies for engaging technical professionals.

This audio conference covers:

• How to define and measure technical professional engagement
• The role management plays in employee engagement
• Early warning signals that technical professionals may be disengaging
• The current economic impact on workforce engagement
• How engagement impacts innovation, collaboration and time to market
• Actions you can take to optimize the engagement and retention of key technical staff

About the speaker:

Herb Cohen is senior managing partner for Performance Connections. Previously, he was one of the original principles of MOHR Development, Inc, one of the nation’s leading training/consulting companies best known for pioneering behavior modeling techniques. He went on to become the CEO of MOHR Learning Systems, Inc., a specialty training firm and the nation’s largest retail training resource, increasing sales and improving customer service and organizational productivity for hundreds of clients. In 1998, Herb became a founder and director of Provant, a company offering the largest instructional performance improvement content in America. Also at Provant, he took on the position of group president responsible for all Provant companies with an industry focus.

Herb is a past president of ISA, an association of over 150 training and multimedia organizations dedicated to improving performance through training. At Performance Connections, he is responsible for executive consulting, business development and distributor management.

Who should attend?

• Senior Line Managers
• VPs and Directors
• Senior HR Professionals
• Strategy Professionals