Pre-Summit Workshops
Join us one day early on April 9th and dive deep into one of two topics during one of our full-day Pre-Summit Workshops.
*Please Note: These are not included as part of your general Summit registration.
Workshop A
Bob Kelleher - Author/Speaker/Founder | The Employee Engagement Group
Meg Anderson - Director of Client Engagement | The Employee Engagement Group
"Recruitment Revolution"
Modern Strategies for Talent Acquisition and Onboarding for the AEC Industry
Join us for this exclusive Recruiting and Onboarding Workshop designed for the AEC industry. This one-day event provides the latest strategies, case studies, tools, and insights to help you attract, engage, and retain top talent in a competitive market.
Key takeaways include understanding the unique challenges of AEC talent acquisition, leveraging AI in your hiring strategy, and maximizing digital platforms to enhance your employer brand. You’ll learn to identify ideal candidate traits, use social media to find passive candidates, and turn your technical team into effective talent finders.
Develop practical skills in candidate engagement, build a strong talent pipeline, and customize your recruiting strategies for different generations. You'll also discover ways to balance internal salary equity with new hire demands, embrace workforce variability for the GIG economy, and master onboarding processes to ensure new hires are seamlessly integrated into your company culture.
This will be a ‘learning exchange’ workshop where attendees will have an opportunity to share their own best practices while also learning from others. A must for HR professionals, recruiters, hiring managers, and executives aiming to improve their recruitment strategies and build a future-ready workforce.
Workshop B
Lee Rubin – President | Lee Rubin Speaks
A Deep Dive Into the 5 Components of Extraordinary Teams
Machines are evaluated based on the output of the entire unit, not the impressiveness of their individual parts. Extraordinary teams, like great machines, require certain components that hold their pieces together. While most organizations focus exclusively on building the skills of their individual members, elite organizations invest in the “stuff” that transforms a collection of talented individuals into extraordinary, machine-like teams.
During this interactive workshop, we will dig into the concepts that separate high-performing teams from groups that are no more than collections of talented individuals. Specifically, Lee will share best practices for:
- Encouraging team members to make personal sacrifices to achieve broader organizational goals
- Creating a culture that encourages open, honest, and respectful communication
- Leveraging times of adversity and uncertainty to build stronger relationships
This workshop is packed with insights, humor, and tools to help you take your team to a higher level.
*Pre-Summit Workshop Registration is separate from General Registration
Testimonials
“The Pre-Summit workshop was fantastic. I’m glad I added that day to my calendar!”
- Al Wiltse, HR Director at Fleis & Vandenbrink
“Bob hits a home run every time. The pre-conference sessions were very, very good!”
- Pete Koval, Sr. HR Manager at Mark Thomas
“The pre-conference workshop was worth gold. So much great information was shared in a very dynamic way… especially given the length of the workshop. You kept us constantly engaged, changed the tone and the message frequently to retain that engagement - and wow, I came home with a toolkit loaded with tips, techniques, and templates that we can integrate into our organization immediately!”
- Tamara Goff, Principal/Director of Marketing & Communications at HBG Design
