Engaging, Dynamic
Keynote Speaking
Results-oriented, interactive keynotes that give your participants the immediately actionable tools they need to reduce turnover.
The struggle to retain today’s new workforce
is costly.
We shift manager mindsets and bridge generational gaps to dramatically reduce turnover costs, increase employee loyalty, and ensure high-quality products and services are delivered.
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Powerful Keynotes, Deep-Dive Workshops
Keynotes
In This Together! Becoming a Team of Retention Champions
When employee turnover seems never-ending, it negatively affects everyone on staff and keeps organizations from building cohesive teams. As many teams remain consistently understaffed, it becomes vital that everyone plays a part in improving team retention. Doing so means less stress and more restful sleep at night for all!
Magnet Culture’s Retention Strategist will energize and empower your entire team to reduce “us vs. them” team conflicts at work. Participants will leave this powerful, engaging session with a renewed sense of commitment to the organization and ownership in the retention solution. Our people are our greatest retention advocates, so let’s all attract others onto our teams, instead of repelling the talent we can’t afford to lose.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore ways to reduce negative and critical judgment of others
- Learn to recognize all valuable contributions on our teams
- Become a magnetic Retention Champion who helps reduce team turnover
Staying Power: How to Keep Employees Longer
Designed for management and HR audiences.
While some of today’s workforce is made up of deep-rooted, dependable staff, a larger number of positions are now a revolving door of employee turnover. Workforce thought leaders from Magnet Culture will share insight on why staffing is so challenging today and additional ways to gain greater staffing stability. Learn how to slow the revolving door, more effectively manage the impending shorter-term workforce, and maximize the time you have with each employee.
- Discover current employee turnover trends and future staffing projections
- Uncover the real reasons employees leave most organizations and ways to encourage them to stay
- Learn ways to become a M.A.G.N.E.T. employer who attracts better applicants and keeps staff longer
They Drive Me Crazy! The Generational Story You’ve Never Heard
Designed for audiences of all levels and ages, although senior leadership and managers are best!
Tired of hearing generational programs that list off mind-numbing statistics? You’ll love our award-winning unique approach to bridging today’s generational gaps! Our real-life first-hand stories about the real issues on the T.A.B.L.E. (technology, authority, balance, loyalty, and entitlement) fuel an eye-opening discussion about today’s changing workplace that will shift your mindset about those you work with.
- Define the updated generational cohorts and why their definitions of “professionalism” vary
- Uncover exactly why today’s new workforce thinks and acts so differently in the workplace than previous generations
- Learn how to see others’ views to reduce judgment and improve relationships and retention
Workforce Wake-up Call: The Case for Operationalizing Turnover
In the current workforce landscape, employees have the upper hand with “now hiring” signs on every corner. Staffing challenges and employee turnover are here to stay. It’s time for leaders to rethink staffing stability and set realistic goals, budgets, and business models around unavoidable turnover. The best way to increase employee retention is to plan for and adjust current operations to manage impending levels of employee turnover and make the proper long-term retention investments.
This session will explore strategies for operationalizing turnover so your organization can plan for sustainable success. As the saying goes, failing to plan is planning to fail. Make your organization a place where keeping people is an actual goal and not just a recurring discussion.
- Discover current employee turnover trends and future staffing projections
- Learn ways to plan and implement strategies to prepare for on-going turnover
- Determine strategies to close the gap to keep people longer and improve profitability
Breakout Sessions
Managing Remote Workers: Are They Really Working from Home?
Designed for management.
For those who’ve managed people they could see for years, the transition to more flexible work times and work environments can be a challenge. This session will help leaders at all levels better communicate with their team members working remotely to get the best results for everyone.
- Learn how to check IN with staff instead of checking ON them
- Discover when and how to hold effective virtual team meetings
- Identify ways to avoid favoritism and other new concerns as a manager
Train-the-Virtual-Trainer: Effective Strategies for a More Engaging Gathering
- Learn and practice new ways to engage a virtual audience that keeps them engaged to prevent multi-tasking
- Determine which expectations to set before each session to ensure the greatest participation
- Explore new and ever-evolving Zoom views, features and functions
- Discover more professional ways to present yourself virtually for the greatest impact
The Case for Change: Critical Workforce Insights for the C-Suite
Designed for senior leadership and decision-maker audiences.
Excessive employee turnover is impacting the bottom line, and organizations are now making workforce retention an executive priority. This session discusses several critical factors when rethinking our approach to staffing, including:
- How the internal “blame game” keeps organizations from gaining the staffing stability needed to be more productive and profitable
- How the current and projected employment landscape is impacting our business practices
- Why today’s workforce has incredibly different expectations than their leaders
- Strategies for keeping people longer through adjusted incentives and creative advancement
- Ways to prioritize retention initiatives for the greatest ROI
Creating a Realistic Retention Roadmap for Sustainable Success
In today’s challenging workforce market, changes must be made to stabilize staffing and return to a higher quality of care and profitability. But how exactly do we move forward when we’re already short-staffed and have no time to determine which changes will be most beneficial or ultimately implement those changes to create that better place to work?
In this valuable session, Magnet Culture, will provide an audit of the current effectiveness and attractiveness of your organization as an employer, and then support your creation of a realistic retention roadmap identifying which areas of the business can function as they are, which need a simple tune-up, and which must go into the shop for an extensive overhaul.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify gaps between where our culture is today versus where it needs to be to effectively attract and retain talent.
- Prioritize potential retention initiatives to gain the greatest ROI with the smallest time commitment.
- Discuss a plan of action for retention initiatives that will make a difference.
Rapid-Fire Retention: 25 (or 75) Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover
Designed for executives, management and HR audiences.
NOTE: We can cover 25 strategies in one hour or 75 strategies in a half-day workshop.
Ready for immediately-actionable tactics to take back to your organization? This rapid-fire session shares transferable best practices we’ve learned from various leaders, organizations and industries. All attendees will receive Magnet Cultures’ valuable list of “75+ Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover.”
- Discover how to improve the new-hire experience to reduce 30/60/90-day turnover
- Learn ways to offer more creative advancement opportunities to staff ready for the next level, even when promotions aren’t available
- Explore proven recognition and communication methods that keep staff longer
They Drive Me Crazy! The Generational Story You’ve Never Heard
Designed for audiences of all levels and ages, although senior leadership and managers are best!
Tired of hearing generational programs that list off mind-numbing statistics? You’ll love our award-winning unique approach to bridging today’s generational gaps! Our real-life first-hand stories about the real issues on the T.A.B.L.E. (technology, authority, balance, loyalty, and entitlement) fuel an eye-opening discussion about today’s changing workplace that will shift your mindset about those you work with.
- Define the updated generational cohorts and why their definitions of “professionalism” vary
- Uncover exactly why today’s new workforce thinks and acts so differently in the workplace than previous generations
- Learn how to see others’ views to reduce judgment and improve relationships and retention
Staying Power: How to Keep Employees Longer
Designed for management and HR audiences.
While some of today’s workforce is made up of deep-rooted, dependable staff, a larger number of positions are now a revolving door of employee turnover. Workforce thought leaders from Magnet Culture will share insight on why staffing is so challenging today and additional ways to gain greater staffing stability. Learn how to slow the revolving door, more effectively manage the impending shorter-term workforce, and maximize the time you have with each employee.
- Discover current employee turnover trends and future staffing projections
- Uncover the real reasons employees leave most organizations and ways to encourage them to stay
- Learn ways to become a M.A.G.N.E.T. employer who attracts better applicants and keeps staff longer
New Strategies for New Hires: Improving Recruiting, Onboarding, & Training
Designed for management and HR audiences.
Ever have a candidate who accepts a position and then doesn’t show up for orientation? It’s unbelievable, but more common than ever today. This program explores the New Hire Experience and ways to make your organization more attractive and make new hires want to stay longer.
- Discover ways to improve your employer brand to increase the number of qualified applicants
- Learn best practices for welcoming new hires and ensuring they have a great experience entering your company
- Take away tips for improving your onboarding and training
He Did What?! Acknowledging & Adjusting Behaviors for Effective Teamwork
Designed for audiences of all levels.
Why do people have drastically different reactions to situations? Are you the type who “goes with your gut” or do you want all the facts first? The way we respond isn’t by chance, it’s the way we’re wired – and (spoiler alert!) everyone you work with is wired differently. For leaders and staff to work well with one another, it’s imperative they know how they’re wired, how their team members are wired, and how they can adapt their styles to work best together.
- Identify different behavior types to understand how team members are likely to respond to various situations
- Learn how to adapt your style to build stronger relationships within your team
- Improve your communication tactics to reduce unnecessary employee turnover
Say What?! Communicating More Effectively Across a Diverse Workforce
Designed for audiences of all levels.
What’s the root cause of many of your internal issues and missteps causing a lot of productivity and profitability for the organization? Communication! People think and communicate differently, and with more communication channels emerging through technology, leaders need to expand their knowledge and comfort level in diverse ways of communicating.
- Assess individual communication styles to build better teams in the workplace
- Learn the evolution of workplace communication channels over the last several decades to adjust for more effectiveness
- Discuss various types of diversity and cultural differences that impact communication effectiveness and cause unnecessary misunderstandings
Read the Room: Improving & Applying Your Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is considered one of the most desirable characteristics in a leader, as it is the ability to sense, understand and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate higher levels of collaboration and productivity. Well-developed emotional intelligence skills make it possible to work well with a wide variety of people and to respond effectively to the rapidly changing conditions at work. This program will explore the five core factors of EQ: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Motivation, Social Awareness, and Social Regulation.
- Learn how to take one’s own emotional temperature and manage various emotional states in a positive manner
- Explore how to observe and manage the emotional states of those around us and those we lead
- Determine how to use one’s individual emotional energy to move closer to desired goals
- Discover how to improve one’s EQ to become a better leader and communicator
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“Cara’s virtual keynote was outstanding! With hundreds of people watching from afar, she made it interactive, engaging our participants in various ways, and she provided excellent content and tangible takeaways, as always!”
Jennifer George, Director, Indiana Chamber of Commerce
Staying Power: Why your employees leave and how to keep them longer
Learn how the workforce has changed, why it’s a struggle to keep talent, and the steps to take to build a sustainable organization.