Some 36 percent of U.S. workers plan to leave their jobs within the next year (WorkHuman) including 70 percent of Gen Z & Millennials (Linkedin). A lack of career growth options is one of the leading reasons why employees leave their organizations today, even though 59 percent of today’s organizations cite career development as a primary objective of their training programs and 67 percent hope that such training drives employee engagement.

Find out what you can do to create a more viable career development program that will address the needs of every worker to get ahead in his or her careers. Hear best practices, including how EBSCOlearning has cracked the code on this topic to create career advancement for its 5,000 employees that has resulted in average employee tenure of 10 years and a 65% employee engagement rate—both more than twice the national average—and how your organization can do the same!

Learning Objectives:

Attendees of this session will:

1. Better understand the challenges and opportunities in developing an internal plan for employee growth and advancement that has relevance to employee aspirations
2. Understand the differences between skill development, job experiences, job mobility and career growth with best practice company examples
3. Leave the session with a practical plan for implementing the recommendations presented in their organization

Bob Nelson, Ph.D. is president of Nelson Motivation Inc. in San Diego, California. Considered the world’s leading authority on employee recognition, engagement and retention and president of Nelson Motivation Inc., a management training/consulting company specializing in helping organizations improve their management practices, programs & systems. He’s a former corporate trainer who managed an international supervisory training program for a Fortune 50 company, a Senior Management Trainer for a major financial institution (where he taught seven management topics throughout the Ninth Federal Reserve), and a Vice President of product development for the Ken Blanchard companies, where he created five training product lines while being a collaborator, confidant and co-author for Dr. Blanchard, “The One Minute Manager.” Named the #1 Management Guru by Global Gurus and a Top Ten Keynote speaker by ManageHR magazine, Dr. Bob is a Distinguished Fellow for EBSCOlearning who has presented on six continents and worked with 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies.

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