Lunch & Learn Series
The Subject:
Millennials in the Workplace: A Challenge and an Opportunity
Are you encountering difficulty recruiting and retaining talent? If so, welcome to the age of the millennial. In 5-8 years, millennials will make up 75 percent of the workforce and continue to fill even more management positions. To continue to succeed, employers must understand this generation’s values, expectations, and motivators so they can apply the right amount of challenge and support.
In this workshop expert trainer and coach, Lisa Hall, and employment attorney, Eric Ebbert, will discuss the factors that shape the millennials’ ethics, work habits, expectations, and values. Together, we will then explore your opportunity as business owners and HR professionals for a competitive edge to attract, motivate, cultivate, and retain millennial employees. With this information, you will be equipped to manage your workforce to success.
The Experts:
A Certified Business Success Coach, Lisa Hall is committed to helping small business owners and entrepreneurs create efficient and simple systems to run their businesses with greater success while becoming more profitable. Through Tight Ship Business Coaching, Lisa helps the overwhelmed business owner create the business and lifestyle they desire and deserve.Lisa has a background in education and human resources and over 15 years in entrepreneurship, making her an expert leader, trainer, speaker and coach. Lisa just published her first book, Destination Freedom, Building Your Dream Business, which made its way to the top of the Amazon bestseller list. Lisa is also proud to hold biannual business conferences here in Knoxville to further support the local business economy's success.
For fun, Lisa is a self-proclaimed nerd who enjoys reading business books, listening to professional podcasts, and is an app and online business system junkie. Lisa also enjoys spending time with her supportive husband and their two grown boys. Lisa is a dog lover and currently provides room and board for three amazing dogs, two of which were rescues.
L. Eric Ebbert is a Member of Wimberly Lawson Wright Daves & Jones, PLLC, in the Knoxville, Tennessee office. He is licensed in both Tennessee and Florida. He practices in the areas of Labor & Employment law - management, business litigation, and health care liability.
His emphasis on Labor & Employment law includes counseling and defending employers in state and federal courts and before government agencies under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, National Labor Relations Act, and state employment laws; conducting high-level investigations; management training; and employment contracts. His litigation practice also includes real property, breach of contract, tort liability, products liability, and health care liability, as well as the full spectrum of business-to-business litigation. Eric has tried more than 30 cases, representing regional, national and multi-national companies, through all stages of litigation and appeals.
Eric received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University and his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. He is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee, the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, and the U.S. Tax Court. Since 2007, Eric has served as a member of the District Investigatory Committee of the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners. He is a member of the American, Tennessee, and Knoxville Bar Associations, a member of SHRM, and a member of the Board of the Senior Citizens Home Assistance Service, Inc. Other associations, honors and awards... He devotes his personal time to family and church activities.
Lunch Provided.
When
Tue Feb 21, 2017
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where
The Legacy Centre Office
6312 Kingston Pike
Knoxville, TN 37919