HVBF Monthly Meeting - Human Resources Roundtable
Thursday, July 12, 2001, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Host:

Right Management Consultants

Attending:

Susan Fine, PDP Group
Patsy Griffin, Lucent Technologies
Aileen Gutwald, KCI Technologies, Inc.
Mary Ellen Judy, KCI Technologies, Inc.
Paul Kielar, Dunbar Armored
Pat Kilroy, Systems Alliance
Clay Parcells, Right Management
Mary Louise Montague, O’Conor, Piper & Flynn, ERA
Patricia Paul, O’Conor, Piper & Flynn, ERA
Shirley K. Tyler, Right Management

Shirley Tyler facilitated our peer discussion on Developing Management and Leadership skills. 

Participants shared their company’s participation in leadership development programs. The group was divided between those who had a formal program in place and those who did not. Shirley noted that the leading cause of job change was the lack of quality management leadership. The cost of this turnover varies from 41% of salary for frontline employees to 241% of salary for middle managers. This focuses the need for effective leadership programs.

Patsy Griffin detailed the leadership programs at Lucent and the effectiveness of these programs in a climate of change.

Measuring performance through periodic reviews is a measure of leadership effectiveness. The existence of such reviews and the way they are conducted varied widely among participants and stimulated active discussion.

Shirley distributed hand out material which is available if you could not attend. 

The next meeting of the Roundtable will be on Thursday, August 2 from 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM at Systems Alliance; 34 Loveton Circle. The subject is Succession Planning will be a roundtable discussion. Please come prepared to share how your company handles succession planning.

Please advise me if you will attend.

This summary will also appear on our website www.hvbf.org under Events.