Attracting and Retaining
Highly-Qualified Professionals

Highly-Qualified Professionals (HQP) are the most valuable asset of a corporation. Their contribution results in the significant innovations, relationships and strategic advantages of an organization. Yet HQP's are highly mobile and do not give allegience to an institution that does not meet their ideals. Their departure has expensive consequences for a company and diminishes its long-term quality. In trying to eliminate its dependency on HQP's, an organization is forced to adopt layers of redundency and bureaucracy that are also very expensive.

HQP's are attracted by other HQP's in leadership roles and in positions similar to their own, and by ideals and opportunities that they value. Managers are usually threatened by HQP's and may be biased against hiring them. A significant problem is that people who are not highly qualified cannot assess the qualifications of those who are.

There are five distinct stages that Highly-Qualified Professionals go through, and their motivation and needs are different in each stage. HQP's thrive when they have recognition, authority, opportunity for growth and compensation corresponding to their true value, where the priority of these factors depends on the developmental stage of the HQP. Understanding these stages is key to attracting, managing and retaining HQP's. In addition, there are specific policies that an organization must provide to all employees and customers in order to retain HQP's.

The three-day workshop will outline the research and describe the five stages of development of HQP's. It will give direct, personal experience in the method of recognizing HQP's, determining their stage, developing them further and engaging them in work that benefits the organization. A climate assessment tool will show the long-term attractiveness of your organization to HQP's.

The workshop will include Heart Rhythm Practice to develop the intuition to recognize a HQP and the inner confidence to engage the HQP in dialogue. Heart Rhythm Practice is a methodology that uses awareness of breath and heartbeat. It builds personal mastery, insightful vision and integrity, while helping a person become more connected to their emotions and to others.