Do you ever think of employee morale as the wildcard in your employment environment? Does your success as an IT professional in your organization depend upon the performance of your employees and how they feel about the company, their jobs, and their managers? Although hope is not a strategy, it’s often considered an underlying factor in building a high morale workplace. This seminar is about morale—how to keep what you already have and how to regain what you’ve lost. An individualized approach to communication, career development, and management is the key to harnessing employees’ energy and impacting employee morale. You’ll walk away from this seminar with 25 practical tips for making a difference and winning back morale in 2010 and beyond.

Highlights of this content-rich presentation include how to:

• Get to the bottom of what your employees need and want.
• Audit employee morale and tackle the issues if employee morale is ailing.
• Bridge the gap between what managers should be doing and what their employees perceive as happening.
• Identify and deal with the causes of low morale and the commonality that binds them.
• Win back morale with 7 ideas that can make a huge difference.
• Use the Platinum Rule to engage your employees at the highest level.

Carol Hacker has been a passionate seminar facilitator, engaging speaker and independent HR consultant since January 1989.  As president of Hacker & Associates, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, she works with organizations throughout North America to build a chain of evidence that demonstrates the value of effective management practices.  Her goal is to help HR professionals, managers, supervisors and business owners meet the leadership challenge.  Over 500,000 participants have benefited from her customized seminars on the topics of recruiting, retention, evaluating employee performance, change management, handling troublesome workplace issues and more.  Her clients range from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies.  Carol is the author of 14 books, scores of audio CDs and over 400 published articles.

Her viewpoint is the result of her successful business career including a position as the Director of Human Resources for the North American Division of a European manufacturing company, Employee Relations Manager for the Miller Brewing Company, and County Office Director for the U.S. Department of Labor.  She has an academic background that includes a BS and MS with honors from the University of Wisconsin.