Engagement and Retention Keynote Synopsis Love Em Or Lose Em : Engage and Retain Good People
Engagement and Retention Keynote Synopsis
Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em®:
Engage and Retain Good People
Every leader’s contribution to the organization’s mission and strategic goals is highly correlated to his or her ability to retain, engage, and develop talented, highly skilled, knowledgeable people.
Today’s leaders are expected to build a work environment in which their key employees thrive, constantly learn, and give their discretionary effort to their organization. The most successful executives know that if their organization is to be productive and competitive, they must not only “hang on” to good people, but also continually develop them in order to meet constantly changing business needs. The big challenge for most leaders is how to do this in a “no-time-to-do-it” environment.
- Engaged employees bring value to organizations, improve the organization’s competitive position and reap personal rewards from the work they do. Their engagement, commitment and loyalty are a result of being challenged, appreciated, heard and respected.
- Disengaged employees are the psychological casualties of talent mismanagement; only employees who leave are physical casualties. Both drain the organization of the brainpower and commitment that is vital to ensuring productivity and profitability.
Finding and keeping talent are critical elements of an organization’s ability to improve profitability, manage costs, grow by acquisition, innovate, develop new products and services, and uncover new markets.
Objectives
You will learn the compelling facts, as well as some actions, that successful leaders must take to engage, develop and retain the employees. By the end of the session, you will:
- Understand the significance of key (researched-based) engagement and retention factors, other than pay
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of leaders in the retention and engagement equation
- Learn a few practical, low or no-cost and hands-on strategies that leaders at all leaders at all level can apply immediately.
Content
- Why is engagement and retention more challenging in Asia?
- Stay Factor Research involving 17,000 people worldwide
- Manager’s role in engagement and retention
- A to Z strategies of engagement and retention
- Stay interview instead of exit interview
- Practical actions and tools
Duration
45 to 120 minutes
For Whom
Anyone with a direct report.
Contact information
; +65-98804782
Speaker Profile
Wendy Tan
A consultant, writer and speaker, Wendy Tan integrates wholeness at work so we act with wisdom to create greater good. Wendy has partnered clients in Asia to leverage their human capital as a competitive advantage by engaging and retaining staff sustainably. She has also helped clients develop their internal consulting capability, in particular, to transform from transactional to strategic business partner role. Being a Chinese with a Western education, Wendy integrates both Western thought and Eastern philosophy so we act in alignment to our context. A professional speaker, Wendy has conducted keynotes and has presented in regional conferences in Asia. Wendy connects with her audience through her authentic, heartful and thought-provoking disposition.
Wendy is the Founding Partner of Flame Centre, an organization development consulting and training practice based in Asia. She is also an accredited trainer in Dr Beverly Kaye’s career development and talent engagement solutions and Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting workshops. Wendy graduated Masters of Science in Organization Development in Pepperdine University and is currently a professional member of Asia Professional Speakers Singapore.Her articles have also been frequently published in industry magazines, such as OD Practitioner, ASTD and AI Practitioner.
Wendy has worked with leaders in the OD field such as Peter Block (award-winning author and consultant), Marshall Goldsmith (leading executive coach) and Dr Christopher Worley (author of OD textbook – “Organizational Development and Change”), and participated in global consulting projects in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China.
Client Testimonies for Speeches
Thanks so much, Wendy! Your talk on "Love 'Em or Lose' Em: Getting Good People to Stay" was engaging and impactful. We had approximately 200 supervisors and managers attend your session and all learned a lot while also smiling and laughing. This is always a good sign. I really appreciated the way that you included opportunities for group interaction into your presentation and also your use of story telling. I had many participants come up to me after the session excited to put the ideas into practice.
-Joy Roman, HR Director, 3M Singapore
Thank you again for the fine job you did communicating the importance of Employee Engagement and Retention. You were excellent. Mixing story-telling with serious topics and talking with the audience instead of to the audience, kept everyone involved. I have received numerous comments from attendees on how much they enjoyed and benefited from your session. 3M looks forward to continued work with you in the future.
- Ronnie Tan, HR Director, Schneider Electric
“Wendy’s talk on Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em: Engagement in SPF was a good reminder to the officers on what’s needed to engage staff. It was highly contextualized to SPF’s unique operating culture so that officers could relate the engagement strategies to their work. Rather than a sit-down lecture, this talk was very interactive with stories, activities and questions. Officers participated actively and took away some practical tips for themselves.”
- Dr Majeed Khader, Director, Police Psychological Services Division, Ministry of Home Affairs
The session was insightful and impactful. During the short 2-hour session, Ms Wendy Tan delivered nuggets of wisdom that I have found practicable and effective at the workplace till today.
- SCLT Tan Hong Wee, Centre for Leadership Development, Singapore Armed Forces
