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Sxsw Presentation: Kicking Recession Ass With Killer Company Culture
Do your employees know how much you love them? We'll talk on creative ways to keep morale up in a low economy, ideas on improving the lives and brains of your greatest assets and how to make it all work for your company's bottom line (no matter how small).
Here are some of the topics that will be discussed:
1. How important is company culture when you’re worried about making payroll?
2. What are the top 5 ways to hire the right people?
3. How can you learn and implement ways to motivate each of your employees?
4. What are cost effective and creative ways to invest in your staff and your clients?
5. How do you say ‘see ya’ to employees that aren’t a good fit with love?
6. What role does a mission statement play in your company’s future success?
7. Should they stay or should they go now? How to expect and manage attrition in your company and industry.
8. What are they worth? Looking outside traditional benefits and pay structures to reward your key people.
9. After your employees, how do you identify, interact and promote other people and companies that are key to your company’s culture and success?
10. Who are the unexpected companies to look up to in taking care of your people?
2. What are the top 5 ways to hire the right people?
3. How can you learn and implement ways to motivate each of your employees?
4. What are cost effective and creative ways to invest in your staff and your clients?
5. How do you say ‘see ya’ to employees that aren’t a good fit with love?
6. What role does a mission statement play in your company’s future success?
7. Should they stay or should they go now? How to expect and manage attrition in your company and industry.
8. What are they worth? Looking outside traditional benefits and pay structures to reward your key people.
9. After your employees, how do you identify, interact and promote other people and companies that are key to your company’s culture and success?
10. Who are the unexpected companies to look up to in taking care of your people?
Speaker: Katie Laird and Kelsey Ruger
Schipul – The Web Marketing Company and ChaiOne
Katie Laird (aka: happykatie, or Katya if you're in the Russian literary mood) serves the Schipul team as Strategic Advisor, a position that involves lots of tea leaf divination, thumb war training and borderline obsessive-compulsive book reading. Katie started working at Schipul in 2005 as a graphic designer, moved on to a Communications Coordinator position and now enjoys working with all different parts of the company and regularly bringing in brownies to keep the office sugar high going strong.Organizer: Katie Laird
Date & Time
Sunday Mar 14, 2010
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. US/Central
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Location
Austin Convention Center