Keynote Speech
"Employing
Geeks: Recruiting and Retaining the People Who Deliver Technology"
Finding,
Keeping and Leveraging Top Talent is Critical to Your Success
Most advice you find
about recruiting and retaining the best people is simplistic and
generic. If you want to find, keep and leverage top technical
people, you need an approach that is designed specifically for technical
people. The old tired advice you get about recruiting and
retaining sales people just won't do.
Paul Glen,
award-winning Computerworld Columnist and author of the award-winning
book "Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver
Technology" will share his insights with your people about how to
attract and activate technical people.
“Paul Glen’s insights and experience provide the keys to
unlocking the potential [of geeks].”
– Warren Bennis, co-author Geeks and Geezers
This Entertaining, High-Content Keynote Will Show You…
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Why Traditional Approaches to
Recruiting and Retention Don't' Work With
Geeks
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How Geeks are Different from Other Employees
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How to Analyze the
Emotional Forces Acting on Your Staff
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How to Motivate Geeks
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Immediately Applicable Approaches to Geek
Recruiting and Retention
“Insightful and
delightful”
- James Champy, chairman of consulting, Perot Systems Corporation
“Paul Glen provides
excellent advice for managing geeks…. But his insights apply equally well
to the challenge of leading any group of specialists for whom esoteric
knowledge is more important than power, and expertise more determinative
of social dominance than bureaucratic hierarchy, including actors,
athletes, university faculty, musicians, doctors, and bond traders.”
- Steven Sample, president, University of Southern California
“We ought to stop complaining about technical wizards and learn how to
utilize their considerable talents. Paul Glen helps us to do that better
than I ever dreamed possible.”
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Alan Weiss, author, The Ultimate Consultant Series
“The old phrase
‘knowledge is power” is not quite correct.
Understanding
is power, and that’s what Glen provides.”
- David H. Maister, co-author First Among Equals
Contact Paul Glen about having him speak to
your group
