Finding Keepers

In these highly competitive times, good help is hard to find...and even harder to keep!

In this idea-packed session, best-selling author Tim Kirkland will share dozens of impactful suggestions on how to find, train, motivate and hang on to top-level management and crew teams.

Target Audience

General Managers, Assistant Managers, Shift Leaders, Multi-Unit Managers, Executives, Owners, Franchisees at QSR, Casual, Family, Fine Dining, or Contract Foodservice.
 

Format

Offered in 1 hour, 90 minute, and 2 hour versions.
 

Takeaways

Attendees will leave the session with the following skills and knowledge:

Recruiting

• Learn to be pro-active in seeking out and reaching out to A-level recruits, rather than waiting for them to apply to you
• Determine your “employment brand” and discover how to communicate it to the candidates with the most potential for success
• Discover the 6 ways to make your company the employer of choice for driven, goal-oriented applicants
• How to revamp your interview process and learn to ask the right questions and find the right people (rather than just the wrong people who happen to have the right answers to your old questions)

Engage

• The importance of “imprint” orientations and training, constantly communicating the importance of your company’s mission, vision and values.
• How the emerging, “iGeneration” workforce has changed—and how to adapt your training style to how they like to learn
• Dozens of fresh, ingenious ways to continually motivate your front-line team and keep them engaged, focused and moving forward

Retain

• How to reduce turnover and increase profits by making sure your superstars stay longer
• Learn low-cost and no-cost ways to recognize, reward and replicate great performance