"No one knows the emerging workforce better than Eric Chester. He's spot on when it comes to the challenge leaders face for improving work ethic and restoring pride, and he offers advice that is both practical and solid."
Eric Chester
Workplace Culture | Employee Engagement | Work Ethic | The Millennial Mindset
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$20,000
Eric Chester
Biography
Since 1998, Eric Chester has been the leading voice in recruiting, training, managing, motivating, and retaining the emerging workforce.
As an in-the-trenches workplace researcher and renowned employee engagement expert, Chester knows what it takes to attract today’s enigmatic talent and get them to perform at their best. Fully Staffed is his sixth leadership book. His two most recent releases, On Fire at Work – How Great Companies Ignite Passion in Their People without Burning Them Out (2015) and Reviving Work Ethic - Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Workforce (2012), have been wily acclaimed by employers from all around the world.
Eric Chester is a Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker who has delivered more than 2300 paid speeches on three continents. He is the only speaker who addresses the labor shortage and delivers powerful strategies for post-pandemic hiring and retention. His clients include Harley-Davidson, McDonald’s, AT&T, the US Army, and Allstate Insurance, to name a few.
Eric Chester
Featured Keynote Programs
Fully Staffed
Finding and Keeping Great Employees in Difficult Labor Markets
Consider what a service tech, parts counterman, detailer, etc. all have in common.
They are the type of front line employee that is in high demand, and in dangerously short supply.
The list of unfilled positions has never been longer, and the alarming rate of employee turnover in these types of positions has created an ever-growing mass of head-scratching employers desperately looking for answers.
Eric Chester’s presentation mirrors what he is conveying in his forthcoming book, Fully Staffed. As a consummate workforce researcher, award-winning speaker, and bestselling author, Eric is shining the spotlight on innovative and savvy employers that have made bold moves, implemented guerrilla recruiting tactics, and are transforming the way the hiring and retention game is played and won. Most of the companies and organizations that have developed these unique strategies are not marquee brands and household names; their techniques and methodologies will inspire organizations of any size to change the way they recruit, hire, and manage their employees.
If you have had enough of the “I can’t find good people” syndrome and want to get off the hire-fire treadmill, join the revolution of business owners, operators, leaders, and managers who proudly proclaim, “We are FULLY STAFFED.”
Take-Aways:
• Why good employees are so much harder to find.
• Why you must stop fishing for employees…and start hunting.
• How to be the best place to work in your community.
• Creating, developing, and reinforcing the “7 pillars of an On Fire workplace culture” i.e., Compensation, Alignment, Atmosphere, Growth, Acknowledgment, Autonomy, and Communication to improve productivity and ignite performance.
• Get your top-performing employees recruiting for you.
• Recruit from high schools, colleges, trade schools, ex-military, retirees, etc.
• Stabilize application flow even when compensation is less than what is offered elsewhere.
• How to determine ‘better fits’ to ensure those workers that are hired are safe bets for long-term employment.
• Incorporate onboarding tactics guaranteed to slash costly turnover.
On Fire at Work
How Great Leaders Ignite Passion in their People without Burning Them Out
After interviewing more than one hundred highly acclaimed C-level leaders across all industries, Eric has uncovered the four principles that are common when it comes to engaging today’s rapidly changing workforce. Through a highly entertaining multi-media presentation, you’ll see how great leaders create cultures that attract top talent, encourage innovation and collaborative thinking, and inculcate the desire to out-perform yesterday’s best. Based upon the groundbreaking research in his new book On Fire at Work, business leaders walk away with actionable ideas that are innovative, relevant, and applicable. Uplifting, inspiring, and content-rich, it’s impossible to experience “On Fire” without catching fire and igniting the passion for achieving excellence in those around you.
From Rookie to Superstar
Improving Your Business by Developing Your People from the Inside Out
Research proves that most business leaders are not satisfied with the performance, productivity, and the service they are getting from their emerging workforce. The problem is not so much a skills gap as it is a values gap, which is apparent when analyzing the core work ethic values a growing number of employees are bringing to the job. This is the cause--and the effect--of Eric Chester's compelling presentation based on his breakthrough leadership book, Reviving Work Ethic – A Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce. With his hilarious and unconventional style of delivery, Chester will help you build the seven essential work ethic values within your people to ensure their success, and the success and sustainability of your business.
REVIVING WORK ETHIC
Helping Leaders End Entitlement and Restore Pride in the Emerging Workforce
In a perfect world, business leaders would employ a workforce that’s engaged, enthused, and ethically unassailable. The reality, of course, is that the new emerging workforce is streetwise and techno-savvy, but they’ve not been taught how to succeed in the workplace, at home, or at school.
Eric Chester is the leading authority on developing work ethic in young adults and leading Gen Y employees to achieve at their remarkable potential. His presentation will illustrate why the work ethic in America has declined, and he’ll provide solid, actionable ideas and tools for developing the young worker and restoring the pride of a job well done, instilling within them the work ethic they should have received at home and in school – but didn’t.
• Discover the 7 Indisputable Core Values that every employer demands from every worker, and why they are getting harder to find but are essential to develop.
• Find out how to promote a workplace culture rooted in reliability, professionalism, integrity, and respect.
• Learn how to be an 'up and over' leader, moving employees from “Idle,” “Lucky,” and “Cheating” behaviors into the “Valued” Quadrant.
• Improve customer service in your business to break free from a “vending machine mentality” by learning how to instill an attitude of gratitude across your front line.