Facilitated by Mary Beth Koester from Rea & Associates, the panelists will discuss their best practices on attracting and retaining non-family employees. They will give insight into what has worked best for their businesses and offer advice on launching and sustaining recruitment efforts. The family business panelists include Kent Johnson, CEO of Highlights for Children, Sharon DeLay, Founder of GO-HR, and Kim Troy of Civilis Marketing. Carley Childress, director of HR and a non-family leader at Schoedinger Funeral & Cremation Service will also join the panel. Sponsored by KeyBank ... read more

Is the Performance Review Dead? We hate to do them. We have to do them. Is there a better way? Let's take this time to talk about why and how we're evaluating performance, share best practices, and generate new ideas for rewarding performance and correcting behavior. Sharon DeLay, President, GO-HR, will moderate this event. This quarterly peer group is facilitated by family business owner Sharon DeLay, President of GO-HR. a HR consultancy working with businesses across five areas: general HR, recruiting and on-boarding, training and development, benefits and benefits consulting, and career and corporate outplacement. ... read more