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How to Better Retain Your Talents

• How did the labor market change in the past 20 years?
• What is available in our tools arsenal for talents retention?
• Why effective career development and mentoring are essential to talent retention?

2 pm, March 18, 2010, Thursday @ mesa | manifesto

The labor market has changed dramatically since the start of China’s economic reform.  China’s economy has been growing at an unprecedented rate.  As a result, businesses in China have experienced changes in organizational structure, in business objectives and in China’s legislations.  At the same time, there have been drastic changes in educational and experience levels of workers, as well as in the social fabric and value system.

Career development is critical for talents retention because it is often at the top of the minds of most employees…  How could one plan one's own career effectively?  This issue becomes more acute as one moves up the career ladder.   How can one moves up the career ladders quickly and still be able to acquire all the necessary skills and experience to be a effective manager, and continue to march forward in one's career.  This problem is exacerbated by being employed by a multi-national company…we have seen many cases of managers sitting on top of a Chinese organization of an MNC at a relatively young age only to ponder what's next. 

Effective mentoring can help alleviate one's anxiety in career development.  But effective mentoring can do much more than that.  It can help a person to better understand his/her strengths and weaknesses so that he/she can better exploit his/her strength and work on strengthening his/her weaknesses.  Effective mentoring can help a person to better understand the culture of his/her company.  It can also help a person to be able to look at an issue from multiple angles so that a better decision can be made.  The need for effective mentoring is something that most company managements talk about.  It is, however, very illusive at the same time. 

In this workshop, we will discuss and explore how a business can better retain its talents through effective application of tools, and how effective career development can be achieved and good mentorship can be acquired.

Details of the workshop:

Date & Time: 2:00PM, March 18th, 2010
Venue: mesa | manifesto, 748 Julu Lu, near Fumin Lu (巨鹿路748号， 近富民路)

Agenda:
2:00pm    How to Better Retain Your Talents
3:00pm    Analytics Modeling Tool Workshop
3:45pm    Take5 HRMS Solution Presentation

For RSVP, please email to event@take5people.com to secure your attendance.  Please bring your laptop with you as a 30 day trial version of our solution will be installed for participants.

Profile of Presenters:

Frankie Ko
Frankie Ko joined AEA Investors (Asia) Ltd. in 2007 as an operating partner. He supports investments in Asia but he is heavily focused on working with portfolio companies to improve operational excellence to maximize value creation.

Before joining AEA, Frankie spent twenty of his thirty-one year career at Dow managing manufacturing plants in Asia and North America. He served as the general manager of Dow’s first joint venture in China.  Frankie was instrumental in developing the coal-to-chemicals project, which is not only the most significant energy and petrochemical project ever developed, but also the largest Sino-foreign investment in China.

During his carrier, Frankie, a Six Sigma black belt, focuses on people and career developments for his executive team to achieve greater success.   At the moment, he is mentoring many CEOs in the region.

Frankie holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Kentucky, and he also holds an M.B.A. from Marshall University.

Alsen Hsien
In last 15 years as pioneer of HR Payroll software solution provider in China, Alsen is the instrumental force in designing a highly configurable Take5 HRMS solution suite, which including powerful Analytical solution that empower decision maker with an unprecedented insights to their business.

 Alsen currently is the President of Take5 People, www.take5people.com.  Also he is board member of Process Improvement Asia, www.piachina.com , advisory director of PayAsia, www.payasia.asia  and Senior Advisor of Jeitosa group, www.jeitosa.com.