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Operations Track

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Finders Keepers: Using High Unemployment to Your Advantage 
Operations Track
Tuesday, October 20 | 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM    Location: N261 

There are two types of companies out there today: best-in-class retailers that are taking advantage of high unemployment and proactively building strategies to upgrade and improve their team with top talent and complacent companies that are sitting back feeling good about their drop in employee turnover due to the recession and continuing to do business as usual.  Which are you? Whether you’re a large chain or a single store operator, this session will reveal how to develop a strategy to capitalize on the recession and attract and retain a high performance team.  Now more than ever you need leaders who possess the ability to attract, hire, and develop high performers who make you money and drive the business forward versus those that simply manage and control the store or run a register. Hiring the wrong cashier will certainly cost you money, but hiring the wrong manager or supervisor will cost a whole lot more! Companies that are proactively investing in efforts now will be strongly positioned to compete when the economy turns the corner.

What you will learn

  • Top three ways to attract true talent
  • Life Cycle of Employee Retention
  • 10 Warning Signs your top talent is planning to quit and how to reverse their decision
 
Moderators Speakers

Chris Tiller
Flash Foods, Inc. The Jones Company
Director - Retail Operations
 
 

Linda McKenna-Welch
Convenience Store Coaches, Inc.
Founder & Principal