Job Rotation & Cross-Training: A Step-by-Step Plan for Making It Work

WHY ATTEND

Having a high-value employee you really count on is great. It's also a huge risk.

What if an illness or an emergency pulls her out of the office indefinitely? What if she just quits? The cost of finding, hiring, and training a replacement is huge. Even more important, think of the impact on productivity, on customers, and on the business overall.

That's why it's absolutely essential to be ready. And one of the most effective ways to be ready is a job rotation and cross-training program—a strategy that builds redundancy and prepares your organization for unexpected turnover.

Even though job rotation and cross-training programs are strategically essential and not hard to implement, they often don’t seem immediately urgent—until it’s too late.

Don’t let it happen in your organization. Join us for Job Rotation & Cross-Training: A Step-by-Step Plan for Making It Work.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In this session, you’ll learn:

• A step-by-step checklist for implementing a job rotation program in your organization
• How to work with managers and individual contributors to “free up” time to learn additional functional skills
• Best practices for evaluating how well your job rotation program is working
• How job rotation and cross-training link to career development and succession planning processes within your organization
• How to get buy-in from employees who might feel threatened

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

B. Lynn Ware, Ph.D., is President and CEO of Integral Talent Systems Inc., based in Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Ware is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist who has practiced for over twenty five years in the corporate education and organization development field, with a strong focus on how to increase employee productivity for the benefit of achieving strategic execution. Dr. Ware has experience consulting in the consumer products, financial services, health care, high tech, manufacturing and retail industries. Dr. Ware is frequently quoted on trends in employee retention and other talent management strategies in numerous publications such as the Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Network World, and ComputerWorld magazine, and has recently been featured several times on CNN as a national employee retention expert.

Certification

This program has been approved for 1.0 recertification credit hour(s) through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) & Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).