With the shortage of truck drivers and other staff in the transportation industry approaching its peak, recruitment and retention issues are as top of mind as ever. Join us next week for this exclusive symposium on improving human resources management within your fleet.
Moderated by Angela Splinter and Tamara Miller of Trucking HR Canada, this event will provide practical tips, strategies and case studies. Everyone will also leave with a HR Guide to help support your future HR efforts.
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm | OTA Offices, 555 Dixon Road, Toronto, ON.
Click here to register or email events@184.107.41.74.
AGENDA
10:00am – 12:00pm
Business Case for People Management – All businesses can benefit from good people management. To make good decisions about different practices for managing your people, and to make the case for implementing new initiatives, we will help you identify the impact HR practices can have on fuel costs, labour costs, safety costs and more.
Managing the Generations at Work – Today, the trucking industry has four generations working side by side, and their different attitudes about work can cause tensions in the workplace. We will share useful insights about these generations at work and provide tips, tools and templates to help you manage the different generations in your workplace.
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Recruitment and Retention – Following the morning session on managing the different generations – we will delve deeper into recruitment and retention strategies that work best for different target groups, and provide key insights about how to better retain and engage an older workforce.
Importance of Training – Bringing together content from the full day – we will further discuss the importance of fostering a training culture, why it matters, and how it can help your bottom line.