AIMCAL Management Meeting 2012 Agenda

We're looking at a volatile year ahead of us. 2012 will bring big changes in our govern­ment, our economy and the technologies we use to run our companies. What decisions should you be making now that will lead to profits and increased value in the future?

Join Gene Marks as he explains the meaning behind today's numbers, the trends in Washington, the new technologies coming on the market, and where he expects tomorrow's opportunities for smart executives lie.

Gene Marks is a columnist, author, and small business owner. His weekly columns and blogs for The New York Times, Forbes, Huffington Post, and The American City Business Journal are read by thousands of small and medium sized business owners around the country. He has written five books on business management and is a frequent guest on national television and radio programs.

For the first time in human history, there are four generations in the workforce. In the very near future, there will be 80 million retiring Baby Boomers and only 72 million Millennials to replace them. This will create an employee vacuum in the workforce, increasing demand and competition for Generation Y employees, and augmenting the challenges of leading a multigenerational workforce.

In this highly thought-provoking and participant-driven program, Dr. Gustavo Grodnitzky, will provide participants with actionable information regarding the identification and implementation of five "Magnet Factors" that attract and retain the best of Gen Y in your workforce. Understanding and managing these factors will ensure success for the participants' businesses.

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Gustavo Grodnitzky has a Ph.D. in clinical and school psychology and has an extensive background in interpersonal communications, strategic planning, development of organizational culture, and change management. He has been a consultant for corporations and executives, and worked with management and staff to increase their effectiveness and success at numerous Fortune 500, mid-size, and smaller companies.

Do you have employees who thrive on being the go-to experts? When a customer's technical issue surfaces, they're on it immediately. But getting them to shift from a reactive to a pro-active mindset, they're lost. With resources stretched, it's imperative to get your team to see the bigger picture, take ownership of their actions (or lack of) and become a driving force for value creation in the eyes of your customers.

Join Paul Cherry as he shares with you innovative coaching strategies to motivate your team to take more initiative and embrace accountability, strategically align your organization with your customers, reinforce your company's value so that a customer can't imagine doing business with anyone else, and foster greater internal collaboration and communication

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Paul Cherry is President of Performance Based Results, a training company that specializes in how to ask powerful questions to achieve great outcomes. He is the author of Questions That Sell: the Powerful Process for Discovering What Your Customer Really Wants and Questions that Get Results: Innovative Ideas Managers Can Use to Improve their Team's Performance. He's been featured in Investor's Business Daily, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Selling Power, and Inc. Paul teaches sales and leadership strategies at the Manufacturers Resource Center at Lehigh University.

Robert Fry, senior associate economist for DuPont, will return to provide a look at the economic indicators and forecasts that are shaping our Industry.

DuPont Economist's Office (Robert Fry and Bob Shrouds) has been named among the top forecasters by The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Bloomberg. In November 2005, they won the prestigious Lawrence R. Klein Award for Blue Chip Forecast Accuracy, making DuPont the only three-time winner of this award.