Topics to be Addressed March 5 – March 6, 2008

This innovative conference will explore how employees work and live today and the impact of these changes on employee engagement and talent management as well as pose innovative solutions for companies. Families and Work Institute and Catalyst will unveil findings from their new collaborative study on talent management in the US, Europe, and Pan-Asia. Senior business leaders will share their own experiences as well as company best practices for improving talent management and reward systems. Workshops will address what’s new in responding to generational differences, creating flexible flextime, technology and work life, promoting health and well-being, and much more. Other highlights include:

• What's really going on with men and women in the workplace today-what's changed, what's the same?
• Best practices in responding to the needs of employees at different career and life stages.
• How to "flex" flexibly
• Beyond rhetoric-what does it mean to create a respectful workplace?
• How does technology affect work-life-what are companies doing to respond?
• How to help front-line managers deal with their own work life issues so that they can deal better with those of their employees
• Work life and hourly/entry-level employees-what's new, what's working?
• New practices in life-cycle dependent care