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Discover Solutions for Workforce Issues in Our Free Virtual Workshop

Mission Critical Partners is hosting our first virtual "Workforce Workshop" beginning on May 23. This multiweek interactive workshop is tailored to support public safety agencies with today's staffing struggles. Throughout this four-week program, you will discover how to modernize and accelerate your recruitment and hiring processes; improve employee retention through dynamic training and personnel engagement; and create an environment for professional growth.

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Sessions will:

  • Explore how to better understand your recruiting and hiring environment.
  • Discuss how to partner with human-resources professionals — both internal and external — to streamline recruiting and hiring processes and timelines.
  • Present how to leverage nontraditional recruitment methods e.g., social media, job fairs, recruitment websites, and partnerships with colleges and high schools.
  • Provide clear guidance, tools, and resources to address your specific staffing challenges.

How does it differ from other forums?

This unique workshop is different from other forums. It’s designed specifically to help you build your organization's personalized action plan through a variety of interactive activities. You will be able to identify specific challenges that your organization is experiencing and learn effective strategies and tactics for combating them.

Feel free to share this complimentary workshop with another organization that may benefit from it.

Register Today!

Week 1 - May 23

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET 

Leadership Tools to Help Reclaim Time

Attendee Takeaways:
  • Using mind mapping tools for organizing your competing priorities
  • Leveraging core values to guide talent management 
  • Defining your “why” in order to attract and retain talent

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Facts and Snacks Q&A Session (Optional)

Join us for an optional hour of Q&A with MCP experts.

Bring your questions and enjoy this social opportunity.

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET

Partnering with Your HR Team - Post and Pray is Not a Strategy

Attendee Takeaways:
  • Promoting the benefits of a strong partnership with HR
  • Identifying job application pitfalls
  • Finding the opportunities in your lengthy hiring workflows

Week 2 - May 30

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET

Knowing Your Competition and Setting Yourself Apart

Attendee Takeaways:
  • Align with the new world of strategic compensation
  • Step out of your comfort zone 
  • Distinguish what sets you apart from other organizations
  • How to put a marketing plan to work

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Facts and Snacks Q&A Session (Optional)

Join us for an hour of Q&A with our team. Bring your questions and enjoy this social opportunity.

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET

From Recruitment to Retention: Leveraging Social Media to Address Workforce Challenges 

Attendee Takeaways:

  • The advantages and disadvantages of using social media strategies for building and fostering your social media presence and how to stand out 
  • Tips and tricks to create fast and effective social media posts

Week 3 - June 6

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET

Understanding Workforce Capacity

Attendee Takeaways:
  • Shift the mindset from “we’ve always done it that way”   
  • Sort through mission critical and ancillary duties  
  • Leverage innovative technologies    
  • Put an action plan to work to create workforce capacity 

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Facts and Snacks Q&A Session (Optional)

Join us for an hour of Q&A with our team. Bring your questions and enjoy this social opportunity.

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET

Checking Your Training Program's Vital Signs 

Attendee Takeaways:
  • Determine if your training program needs resuscitation
  • How improving your training program’s vital signs may improve retention, succession, and collaboration 
  • The tortoise and the hare training approaches 

Week 4 - June 13

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET

Retention Matters: Neutralizing the True Cost of High Turnover 

Attendee Takeaways:
  • Calculate the true cost of your agency’s turnover  
  • Exploring the impacts of high turnover rates 
  • Strategies to improve retention and reduce turnover 
  • The financial impact of improved retention

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Facts and Snacks Q&A Session (Optional)

Join us for an hour of Q&A with our team. Bring your questions and enjoy this social opportunity.

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET

Exit Interviews... Too Little Too Late!

Attendee Takeaways:

  • What are stay interviews and how do they differ from exit interviews  
  • What questions to ask, how often, how to interpret the responses, and what to do with the responses  
  • Develop a schedule to implement stay interviews with your staff