Alice Waagen, President, Workforce Learning

Career Coaching: Using Career Growth to Motivate and Retain

HR Departments are great at creating and maintain organizational structures that employees can navigate as they build knowledge and experience. Career ladders, career paths, step and grade progressions all can be used to chart a path through the organizational maze. But getting managers to use these tools to coach their staff in charting their future can be a real daunting challenge. Managers will sometimes shun having open and honest career discussion with their staff in this era of salary increase restrictions and promotional paucity. To further complicate the situation, employees can take on a passive view toward their future, waiting for their managers or even HR to tell them what their next career move should be. The result is confusion around career growth and development that yields disengagement and key talent flight.

What can HR professionals do to coach managers to have robust career discussion with their staff and to coach staff to take an active part in planning their career future? When managers and employees are fearful to have career discussions, HR leaders need to intercede and provide them with the guidance and training to be effective at guiding career aspirations. Come to this interactive presentation and learn:
• The organizational barriers that prevent open career discussions and how to overcome them
• The 4 critical steps in planning a strategic career path
• The elements needed to create a viable personal development plan

Alice Waagen, PhD, has been teaching business leaders management skills for the past 15 years. During this time, she has amassed a large body of information on what works and what is ineffective in managing others. Alice has tapped her experience of successful management practices to create a set of self-guided worksheets and templates that HR professionals can use to coach their managers and employees in holding career discussions. Alice will share these management tools with the presentation participants, providing them with proven methods for helping their managers. She will also share stories from the trenches of successful career guidance initiatives and ones that did not go exactly as planned.

About Our Speaker:
Alice Waagen, PhD is president and founder of WORKFORCE LEARNING LLC, a leadership development company that since 1997 has provided managers and C-level executives with the skills and knowledge they need to build a more productive work environment.

Prior to founding Workforce Learning, Alice served as Senior Director of Corporate Training for Amtrak in Washington DC and Director Education, Training & Development for Freddie Mac in McLean VA. In both of those positions, Alice created and implemented workplace development programs that served her internal clients from the shop floor to the executive suite.

Dr. Waagen has a passion for working with business leaders to identify their successful HR programs and practices as well as to develop new programs that increase leader effectiveness. In the past three years, more than 159 leaders from 34 different organizations have graduated from Alice's unique leadership development workshop series.

Alice is frequently called on to present on topics of organizational learning best practices. She has spoken at the International Personnel Management Association (IPMA) annual HR conference, numerous chapter meeting of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), American Association for Training & Development (ASTD), the Association of Fundraising Professional (AFFP) and the American Legal Association (ALA). She has facilitated strategic leadership off sites for a number of Metro DC organizations including the Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF), Haynes Boone Inc., NEA Member Benefits, and Janelia Farm Research Campus.

Alice earned a BS in Education from the New York State College at Buffalo, and MS and PhD degrees in Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Giving back to the community is also important to Alice. She currently serves on the Women Build Committee for Habitat for Humanity, Northern VA as well as on the Advisory Board for Marymount University Reston Campus. She recently began serving as a videoconference instructor for the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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When: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
5:15 – 6:00 pm Registration and Networking
6:00 – 7:00 pm Dinner and Announcements
7:00 – 8:00 pm Program
8:00 – 8:10 pm Door Prizes/ 50-50 Raffle/ Wrap-Up
Where: Hidden Creek Country Club
1711 Clubhouse Road, Reston, VA 20190

Online Registration Price: MEMBERS - $35 (new REDUCED price!), NONMEMBERS - $55.
Payment by credit card (VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover) is available online and is our preferred method of payment. Avoid the line, pay online! Payment by credit card (VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover), check, or cash is also available at the door.

Walk-in Registration Price: MEMBERS - $50, NONMEMBERS - $65.
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This program has been approved for 1.0 recertification credit hour towards PHR, SPHR and GPHR. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit. For more information, visit www.hrci.org.

SHRM Foundation 50-50 Raffle
Each month we raise funds for the SHRM Foundation with a 50-50 raffle. Tickets are $1.00 each or 7 for $5.00. The winner gets 50% of the total collected and 50% goes to the Foundation.

Donation: Dulles SHRM continues to support the needs of the Embry Rucker Shelter for the homeless in our community. Their highest needs are cash and gift cards to local area stores (like Target) - amounts in $10, $15 or $20.