SIOPs Second Leading Edge Consortium Set for Charlotte in October
Clif Boutelle
By all accounts last years inaugural Leading Edge Consortium was a huge success.
The mission for the 2006 consortium is to build upon all the good things that occurred last year, said
Fritz Drasgow, who will serve as general chair.
And he is off to a good start, having recruited Ben Dowell, vice-president for talent management at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton, NJ, to be the practice chair and
Cindy McCauley of the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC as the science chair.
The second annual consortium will be Oct. 2728 at the Park Hotel in Charlotte, NC.
The topic of the 2-day event will be Talent Attraction, Development, and Retention: The Leading Edge. Recruiting and keeping talented workers are a great concern for organizations and businesses. This is a timely subject that merits the attention of some of the countrys top practitioners and researchers, Drasgow said.
The consortium will highlight current scientific studies as well as winning business strategies and practices in attracting and retaining employees.
The evaluations from the St. Louis consortium indicated that many in attendance, and these are people who have been in the work force for many years, felt what they learned was both useful and relevant to their work. Our goal is for those who participate in this years consortium to say the proceedings were extremely worthwhile, Drasgow said.
Also, the consortiums strengths, in addition to top-level speakers, include the opportunity to focus on a single topic with plenty of interaction between speakers and attendees.
More information will be available soon on the SIOP Web site at www.siop.org.
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