Webcast and Transcript: Managing Talent Through This Recovery

Most distributors have had to reduce staff, change operational strategies and alter the "contract" they have always had with their employees due to dramatic market shifts in the past year. Join HR expert  and executive search consultant John Salveson and moderator Tom Gale for this 60-minute downloadable Webcast as they discuss the most effective ways to manage your most valuable asset in this new environment. To stay competitive, distributors have to adapt their workforce to the changes their customers and markets have made in the last 12-24 months.

Using the most recent MDM survey data as his benchmark, Salveson shares his insight and experience working with a range of leading distributors across multiple lines of trade. He’ll outline the new rules for managing your long-term employees, while developing the talent and specific skill sets that will be critical to your company’s ability to find growth in this slow-growth recovery.

You’ll learn:

• Effective strategies to manage talent in changing times
• How competency models are changing for key employees
• How the recession has changed organizational structures and management teams
• What companies have learned about managing talent from the recession

About our speaker

John F. Salveson has over 25 years of experience providing consulting services to a broad range of organizations, including wholesale distributors, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, banks, insurance companies, professional service firms, healthcare providers, retailers, service organizations and various non-profit institutions. He works with some of the leading wholesale distribution companies in North America.

John is Co-Founder and Principal of Salveson Stetson Group, Inc. (SSG) a firm dedicated to helping organizations attract and retain talent.  SSG is a multi-specialty practice, focused on retained executive search in human resources, sales and marketing, finance and general management.  From its start in mid-1996, SSG has sustained rapid growth, establishing itself in the top 15% of its industry. John works closely with the senior leadership of SSG clients to define their talent needs and develop and execute creative strategies to recruit and retain that talent.