Home Key Learnings Exercises Register Leader Who Should Attend Venue Pricing ABOUT WORKSHOP Communitelligence presents: ENGAGING EMPLOYEES TO DRIVE RESULTS: The Premier Two Day Leadership Workshop for Today’s Times. Join noted Employee Engagement expert Bob Kelleher, author of Louder Than Words – 10 Essential Steps To Engage Your Employees, for an internationally recognized and certified two-day workshop on Thursday, October 14th and Friday, October 15th at Seyfarth Shaw in downtown Chicago. This is a comprehensive and intensive two days and you will discover how to tap into your ability to engage and transform your organization. As companies begin to recover from our recession, it is critical that today’s leaders understand their role in re-engaging their employees to drive high performance," says Bob Kelleher, workshop leader. “Employee Engagement is not a program, it’s how you run your organization, it’s a culture. Attendees will take away practical tools and proven best practices to help their business increase engagement levels - vital to achieving superior results.” VIDEO SAMPLE KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKE-AWAYS The Key Business Drivers for Engagement The 10 Essential Practices to Engage Employees Case Study Review of a Company that Succeeded In Transforming their Firm and Engaging their Employees Latest Research on the Business Case to Engaging Employees Demonstrate the Connection between Employee Engagement and High Performance Leading and Engaging Different Generations How to Become An Engaged Leader How to Build Alignment and Innovation Diversity Model for Today’s Organization - Leading and Engaging a Diverse Workforce Team Development Model How to Advance Your Culture Leadership During Challenging Times and Conditions How to Best Develop Your Employees, and Inject Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace Over 30 practical Employee Engagement Tools, Processes and Methodologies 200 page Employee Engagement Handbook Copy of “Louder Than Words”, the latest book by Bob Kelleher KEY LEARNING EXERCISES A wide variety of “experiential learning” exercises will be introduced - all with a strong teambuilding element and direct metaphorical connection to the leadership modules. Real life examples will be extracted from the participants through a debriefing process. These exercises will kick off each learning module and are highly interactive and energizing - essential in keeping creativity and engagement levels high. A number of “case studies” will be introduced and discussed to reinforce that leadership creates engagement, and engagement creates high performance. At the close of each learning module, participants will adopt key best practices to apply to their respective workplaces via the completion of individual Leadership Change Plans. The introduction and participation of an individual leadership team assessment tool, the Strength Deployment Inventory -enables participants to self-identify their strengths and then learn how the diversity of each other’s strengths builds the most robust, successful teams. A closing multimedia presentation showcasing the Antarctic explorer, Ernest Shackleton, a final case study highlighting all key learning points. WORKSHOP LEADER Bob Kelleher is the founder and CEO of The Employee Engagement Group, a subsidiary of The Kelleher Consulting Group, and is a noted speaker, thought-leader, and consultant on the subjects of Employee Engagement, Workforce Trends, and Leadership. Having been an internal practitioner for many years, Bob’s practical approach and willingness to share best practices (“been there / done that”) have proven to be a winning formula for audiences throughout the world. Previously, Bob was the Chief Human Capital Officer for AECOM, a Fortune 500 global professional services firm, with 45,000 employees located in 450 offices throughout the world and has designed and facilitated global leadership workshops in most continents. Before joining AECOM, Bob worked for ENSR International, a Massachusetts based 2,300 employee environmental consulting firm with 70 worldwide offices, and now a subsidiary of AECOM. While at ENSR, Bob was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and spearheaded ENSR’s award winning Employee Engagement programs and initiatives as EVP of Organizational Development. He holds a BS in Education and an MBA WHO SHOULD ATTEND This practical, information-packed workshop is designed for anyone charged with helping employees achieve new levels of productivity, innovation and engagement.  It is ideally suited for professionals working in the fields of internal communications, employee engagement, operations, marketing, sales and HR for large, mid-sized and small organizations of all types (for-profit, non-profit, educational and governmental). Some of the titles represented at past Engaging Employees workshops include: Dir., Employee Communications, Communication Specialist, HR Manager, Vice President -Human Resources, Vice President, OD Manager, Human Resources Director, Senior Vice President, Communications Consultant,Vice President - Corporate Communications, Strategy & Operations Manager, Consultant, Dir., Corporate Communications, Sr. VP, PR Coordinator, Communications Director, Manager, New Media, Specialist, New Media, Web Development Specialist, Director of Operations. (Note: This program has been approved for 12.0 general credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute). VENUE                                                                                      Seyfarth Shaw, 131 South Dearborn Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60603-5577 (see map, right column). Registration and Parking: You will need to pass through security, so please allow ample time to check in. There is parking in the Seyfarth Shaw building. The entrance to the alley can be accessed by turning right off of Dearborn (a northbound street) between Adams on the south and Monroe on the North. If that garage is full, there is parking a few blocks away at the Adams-Wabash self-park, 17 W. Adams,  312-554-0112  312-554-0112 . PRICING Register by September 10 and save $200 - use promo code engaging200 Just $1195 for the full conference. Includes lunch and refreshment breaks. For more information and group pricing, email us or call  480-816-5550.  Hotels Hampton Inn & Suites Chicago-Downtown , 33W. Illinois, Chicago, IL 60603. Phone: 312-832-0330 (from $143). Hampton Majestic Chicago Downtown Hotel, 22 W. Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603. Phone:  312-332-5052  312-332-5052 (from $220) The Palmer House® Hilton, 17 East Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States 60603 Tel:  1-312-726-7500.  Hotel Burnham, a Kimpton Hotel, 1 West Washington, Chicago IL 60602. Reservations: Phone:  312.782.1111  312.782.1111 W Chicago - City Center, Starwood Hotel property, 72 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60603. Phone:  312-332-1200.