Our next Athens Area SHRM meeting will be on Tuesday, August 12th, at the Athens Country Club. The Athens Country Club is located at

The program will be "Growing Leadership to Retain Employees" and be delivered by Althea Barnette.

Networking will begin at 5:30pm followed promptly by dinner at 6:00 pm and then our program.

Please register by Friday August 8^th so that we can have an accurate count of attendees.

Additional program information:

Growing Leadership to Retain Employees

No matter the size of the organization stage of development or level of success, when it comes to employee retention, "Leadership Matters".

While leadership means among other things, the ability to engender loyalty, employee turnover may be less a reflection on loyalty than many have assumed.

As leaders we need to examine many variables that lead to employee turnover  and develop a viable retention strategy.  

Attendees will:

• Identify employees' biggest motivators
• Understand what employees really need
• Learn from the formula for Retention: Engagement + Enhancement(Empowerment)
• Use your leadership leverage to build a retention wall 

Speaker Bio - Althea Barnette is a dedicated professional with extensive experience in workplace learning and development strategy, instruction and design, training and delivery, employee engagement, and public speaking. She uses learner-centered, innovative approaches to inspire workforce professionals to reach desired outcomes and improve individual and organizational performance.

Currently a Senior Training Consultant with the Georgia Department of Labor, Althea is certified in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, a Certified Career Development Facilitator, a Gold Certified Trainer with VitalSmarts and a licensed Facilitator with FranklinCovey undefined specializing in leadership development and organizational effectiveness.  An active member of the Association for Talent Development (ATD); Althea earned her BA in Sociology from Spelman College in Atlanta Georgia.

This event has been approved for HRCI credits.