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SPECIAL CONVENTION SECTION
EDUCATION SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
Leadership Track
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 we can learn from them!). This session is designed
for managers or business owners that want to learn
how to understand and embrace a new generation of
Do You Have the Team That You Deserve? workers and create a more harmonious workplace.
10:00 – 11:00am Presenter: Susan Frew – Team Star Training Group
Do you have the right team to make you successful?
During this session, learn how to build and develop
a successful team, both office and field staff. Avoiding Pitfalls of Prevailing Wage
Leaders have a major role and responsibility to Compliance & ‘Bona Fide’ Fringe Benefits
put the right people in the right seats doing the 11:15am – 12:15pm
right work. Come hear different strategies and The recruitment and retention of skilled employees is
techniques from hiring and training to evaluating critical to a contractor’s success. Whether you are a
your staff to build the best team for your business. big or small contractor considering a new program or
Presenter: Bruce Seilhammer – SECCO, Inc. looking for ways to benchmark the effectiveness of
current employee benefits, this session will provide
solutions to common concerns such as retirement plan
Retention Strategies: A dynamics and benchmarking data, opportunities to
Focused Partnership With Your save money and increase contributions on prevailing
Employees & Membership wage contracts, and arrangements that leading
10:00 – 11:00am contractors are making to improve the administrative
ease, employee engagement and return on investment.
The number one reason employees quit their
job is due to a poor relationship with their direct Presenter: Nathaniel Peniston
supervisors. Management should approach every
potential employee as a career hire, not a short-term
freelancer. Ultimately a new-hire is someone you want FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
to continue to promote from within. This session will
help you understand, prepare and create a retention
strategy to propel your for success and improve Ignite the Power of Confident
employee morale, development, and elevation. Communication
Presenter: Mary Kay Slowikowski – 1:15pm – 2:15pm
Slowikowski & Associates
Companies lost over $11,000 a year per employee
due to poor communication. How much money is your
Loving, Engaging, Understanding and organization losing? To decrease this communication
Motivating your Millennial Workforce loss, Jessica shares the fundamental component of
communication that most people overlook with leads
11:15am – 12:15pm
to conflict, misunderstandings, and stress. Bridge
Susan Frew walks you through this engaging and the gap in communication when you discover how to
entertaining presentation on how you can learn converse with different personalities, improve your
to “love your millennials” in the workforce. Many communication confidence to talk to anyone, anytime,
of the Boomer and Y Generation do not “get” the and the single most important part of every conversation.
nuances of our countries’ emerging workforce. Presenter: Jessica Rector – jessICAREctor International
Learn the “why” motivators of this generation and
understand why they behave differently (and how
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