Chamber Breakfast - Hiring For Attitude

Description

This is the first breakfast of the Fall Breakfast Series:

“Hiring for Attitude”
Presented by Catherine Malloy Cummings, CEO, SparkWorks Talent Strategies


“In our work with small and medium sized businesses, we find that well over half of a company’s turnover is driven by poor hiring - either missing the mark in talent selection and culture fit, or not presenting a realistic job assessment so the candidate is well prepared for what to expect. Given the cost of turnover averages over 1X the employee’s salary, companies who don’t properly train for *how* to hire talent lose profitability, and the ability to grow.

In this presentation, we’ll discuss why hiring for attitude matters as much as aptitude-- often more so-- and what you can do to increase the likelihood your new hire will thrive in your organization, and the role. We’ll explore how to identify what attitudes make you unique from your talent competitors, and how to detect whether your job candidates have what it takes to create value.”

Key takeaways for the workshop:
1. Clarity about what it means to hire a “culture fit”, unique to your organization
2. Understanding of why a “great” attitude answer in one company may not be a “great” answer in another
3. Practical tools for integrating attitude interview in your process

Catherine Malloy Cummings is a breakthrough human resources strategist known for her ability to transform HR teams into champions of revenue and agents of business growth. She is also a speaker and author, serving as a passionate advocate for HR’s potential to drive corporate strategic advantage.

At SparkWorks Catherine focuses on small and medium sized businesses in the throes of a corporate restructure or a period of rapid growth. Her creative energy along with her ability to uncover root causes and detect unforeseen talent issues deliver quick results.

Prior to founding SparkWorks, Catherine spent 20 years in executive-level roles in HR, corporate strategy, and internal communications for companies large and small including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and head of HR for IMC Financial Markets, one of the leading proprietary trading firms in the world.

Catherine is active in Chicago’s vibrant nonprofit and small business community including the Union League of Chicago, the kellogg thing, and one million degrees thing.

She earned her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an M.S. in Human Resources from Loyola University Chicago, and a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


Cost to attend is $19 for members for the single breakfast or $50 for the whole series. Price for non-members is $39 (there is no discount for non-members that attend the whole series).

Breakfast Series includes September 14, October 12, and November 9 breakfasts.

To register, please email Caryn Isenhower or call 217.359.1791. Registration deadline is 5pm on September 13, 2017.

No refund will be given for cancellations or failure to attend, although substitutions may be made.