Contact
Bob BloomSCORE Palm Beach
bob.palmbeachscore@gmail.com
561-833-1672
Cost $30 In Advance/$50 At the Door
Where
Keiser University General Auditorium2085 Vista Parkway
(Located off Jog Rd just North of Okeechobee Blvd)
West Palm Beach, FL 33411
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Hands On Solutions To Hiring, Disciplining & Motivating Employees
Employees are your biggest asset. Hiring the right people, effectively motivating them and holding them to high standards will provide your company competitive advantage. This is an opportunity for you to learn proven methods for achievement.
Content to include the following:
- Preparing for the interview process
- Things you can and can not say in an interview
- Writing effective job descriptions
- Defining employee qualifications
- Best practices used by successful companies
- Motivation techniques that work, and how to apply them to your business
- Proper disciplince practices, and improper practices to avoid
- Legal implications in hiring/terminating employees
- Current state of the law relating to employee performance, behavior and discipline
The workshop will be interactive and participants will be asked to "role play" various scenarios in the hiring/termination process.
Presentor: Jim Peterson. Jim is currently the Chapter Chair of the Palm Beach SCORE Chapter. For a number of years, Jim was the Vice President of Human Resources for Florida Power & Light, and directed and managed all aspects of setting corporate policy for FP&L relating to the hiring, motivating, and disciplining employees at the parent company, as well as for a number of smaller independently operated subsidiary companies. He has also acted as a business consultant to a number of area small businesses with regard to employee related issues.