With the word “recession” on the minds of everyone these days, it is important that we energize and engage our leaders and employees to obtain peak performance, no matter what the economy brings. Soaring above your competition and gaining competitive advantage is what employee engagement should be about. However, you might not guess that by studying employee engagement. It is all too easy to get confused about this subject as, despite being extremely popular, there is still no agreement on even the definition of employee engagement.
In order to sort through some of the “noise” and answer the question “engaged in what” – or what really drives long-term organization performance, Dr. Welbourne will share results of a number of major research initiatives on how organizations increase long-term competitive advantage. These studies, which resulted in deep understanding of the way employee energy and engagement work, provide you with insights about the engagement process and what you can do to increase performance, even when recession may be looming or directly hitting your firm. She also will discuss hot “off the press” data from the Leadership Pulse™ project (bi-monthly survey of over 6,000 global leaders). Through a combination of Dr. Welbourne’s sharing her findings with us, your interacting with the data in small groups, and reviewing best practices, you will walk away with concrete actions and tools to help the employees and leaders within your own organization.
Our Presenter - Theresa Welbourne, Ph.D., President and CEO of eePulse, Inc.
President and CEO, eePulse, Inc.
Editor-in-Chief, Human Resource Management
Dr. Welbourne is Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Ross School of Business at the Ross School of Business, the University of Michigan. Prior to her adjunct work with Michigan, she was a full-time professor at the University of Michigan and at Cornell University.
She is the founder, President, and CEO of eePulse, Inc., a technology and management research company delivering web-based leadership tools that transform real-time business information from employees into real-time results for organizations.
Dr. Welbourne's expertise is in the area of strategic HRM and HR leadership in high growth and high change organizations. With over 25 years in the HR field, her particular focus is on understanding how various human resource, communication, and leadership strategies can harness employee and customer energy to improve firm performance.
Professor Welbourne received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research has been featured in popular publications such as Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Business Week, The New York Times, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Her work has been published in several books and in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Human Resource Planning, Journal of Organization Behavior, Compensation and Benefits Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of High Technology Management Research. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Human Resource Management.
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