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Location: Balsamroot Conference Room - G.W. Marks Exploration Center - 1075 South Avenue West, Missoula, MT 59801

Workshop Description: Without your employees, your product or service (no matter how wonderful) has a “less than ideal” chance of survival and success. Given that your people are the most important and largest part of your business, this workshop looks at the Life Cycle of an Employee and focuses on how you can ensure a larger success percentage when it comes to recruiting, engaging, and retaining your team members. The process starts with examination of your culture and branding and provides tips and best practices along the way in all phases of the employee life cycle. You may discover gaps in your current processes and leave with tools that you can immediately incorporate into your organization.

Learning Objectives: 

• Recognize there is an employee life cycle similar to a business life cycle
• Start with examination of your culture and your brand – it clearly impacts your ability to attract and retain top talent that fits in your organization
  
  • Define and identify five different culture types – Authoritarian, mechanistic, participative, learning, high performance
• Examines fundamentals of recruitment to include the job description, where to look for new team members and provides good practices in interviewing all while having a strong presence of your organization with transparency
• Provides tools about how to best engage employees as it aligns with your culture, philosophy and strategy
  • New employee checklists
  • Communications
  • Performance oversight
• Offers multiple resources/ideas that encourage retention of team members 
  • Understand correlation between employee engagement and well-being
• Provides examples that can be immediately incorporated into an organization to improve the employee life cycle experience
  • Total compensation worksheet

Speaker: Cindy Carpenter

Bio: Cindy Carpenter holds two Human Resource Certifications – the SHRM -SCP (SHRM Senior Certified Professional) and the SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources). A University of Montana graduate, she has over 25 years of business and training experience primarily focused on Human Resource and people topics. To compliment her training background, she has been a practicing Human Resource professional in the banking, insurance and manufacturing industries as well as owning her own
business, Carpenter Business Resources, LLC. Cindy’s business model allows her to customize her resources to meet a business owner’s needs, whether it be onsite or virtual, provide training, employee benefits and services, problem resolution or simply as a needed resource. Cindy’s background includes work experiences beyond Human Resources, supporting other family business ventures. As a business owner and as an HR professional, she understands the challenges faced by companies everywhere.

Cindy is an adjunct faculty member at Flathead Valley Community College through the Continuing Education Center. She is a current member and past Board member of the Flathead Valley Chapter of SHRM. Cindy is also a member of the National Society of Human Resource Management. Cindy volunteers with a number of local organizations in the Flathead and Mission valleys to include the Samaritan House and Polson JSEC (Job Service Employer’s Council).