HR Roundtable - How communication and culture can attract employees who want to stay!

How Communication and Culture can Attract Employees Who Want to Stay

**Please note the venue change. This event will now take place at McIntyre Place (116 S Jackson Street) just 1 block North of the Chamber office.**


Your organization’s values drive communication and culture and ultimately influence the employee experience. Messaging, even in your recruiting, impacts the type of employee who want to join you. Your culture influences how long they stay.

Has your organization experienced greater turnover within the last few years? Are you shocked by the staggering reports indicating one in three people will leave their job within 90 days? Many of them claim the company culture drove them away. What changes are needed to alter current and future retention rates? Effective communication can mitigate most reasons cited for leaving.

This workshop will focus on ways leaders can develop communication strategies and practices that emphasize employee engagement from recruitment to onboarding, and throughout the employee lifecycle.

Strategies:

•  Identify communication practices that engage current and future employees.
•  Explain long-term benefits of transparent communication during recruitment and beyond.
• Discuss cultural values that make employees want to stay.

You will leave with actionable strategies you can implement right away. You will glean ideas about ways to elevate your communication and strengthen your culture. You will have the tools and understanding to make small changes that have a big impact.

About the Speaker

Dr. Cheri Hampton-Farmer

Communicating Matters LLC, CEO

 

Dr. Cheri Hampton-Farmer has been helping individuals, teams, and organizations elevate communication for over 20 years. As consultant, coach, speaker, and author, she focuses on helping leaders increase their influence and strengthen organizational culture.

 

Her training and coaching have equipped executives, front line staff, and university students with skills and strategies that resulted in professional growth that influenced outcomes and people. Her belief that communication is at the core of professional development that impacts people, processes, and performance influences her training methods. 

 

After earning her PhD, she taught organizational communication courses and later served as the department chair at the University of Findlay in Findlay, OH. She recently served as a Visiting Professor at Purdue University Fort Wayne but now devotes most of her time to coaching and consulting through her business, Communicating Matters. 

 

She is certified in DiSC, Strategic Doing, and REACH and uses these tools to help individuals and teams navigate collaborative work with an understanding of ways their communication impacts people and outcomes. 

 

Over the years, she has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Marathon Petroleum Company, government agencies, political candidates, and leaders of nonprofit organizations on leadership development, powerful presentations, and maximizing influence. 

 

She has expanded her reach by offering workshops and through speaking engagements that motivate and equip individuals to elevate their communication. Seeking opportunities to learn, grow, and contribute more to her community, she recently completed the 2023 AVOW Women’s Campaign Institute program.

 

She has authored several academic articles and book chapters on topics related to leadership and culture. She now includes current research and practical tips about communication and culture in her blog on the communicating-matters.com website.

 

When she is not working, she takes time for hobbies like photography, music, hiking, and Zumba. One memorable achievement was completing the Disney Princess half-marathon with her daughter in February 2022 and using the experience as content for a Toastmasters Speech contest that advocated for redefining a princess as “someone who can overcome challenges with her words and intellect rather than as a damsel in distress waiting to be rescued.” 

 

With roots in Maryland and Ohio, she now calls Indiana home and lives in Fort Wayne with her husband, Gene and labradoodle, Nelson.