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UNDERSTAND OUR DIFFERENCES & MANAGE YOUR TALENT

    Are you tired of all the personality nonsense that comes with managing talent? This session will share how to use the DiSC Leadership Model to better understand candidates during the interview process, and how to work with current employees to keep them engaged and focused. You'll learn how to train your managers so they can work more effectively with employees who have communication and leadership styles that differ from theirs, increasing productivity and retention. And yes, you CAN change what's not working.

    Presented by: 

    ALAN CABELLY, Ph. D., SHRM-SCP, SPHR​

    Alan Cabelly, Professor Emeritus at Portland State University, has taught and advised its award winning HRM program and students since 1980.  Teaching Leadership and Human Resource Management, he has spoken to diverse groups nationally and internationally.  He recently received two significant honors:  students, alumni, and corporate leaders secretly raised funds to name a room after him in the new Karl Miller Center; the SHRM Foundation awarded him the Chapter Advisor Impact Award for his work with thousands of students in the last four decades.

    Alan’s SHRM and NHRMA presentation experience is extensive.  He has presented (or will present) at ten NHRMA Conferences since 2005, and first delivered a talk at a SHRM conference in 2005.  Most recently he presented Mentoring Millennials:  Microfeedback, Reverse and Group Mentoring, and …. to the SHRM Annual Conference in 2018, as well as delivering  So You Think You Know Millennials:  Think Again to its Smart Stage.  He will speak at the SHRM Talent Management Conference (https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/alan-cabelly?conf=6355) later in April.  In addition, he is founder and Executive Director of the Portland Leadership Institute (www.PortlandLeadershipInstitute.com), which focuses on Leadership Excellence in the 21st century.

    Prof. Cabelly was founding Chapter Advisor of the PSU Chapter of NHRMA/SHRM.  Since its inception in 1982, it has won 36 consecutive Superior Merit Awards from SHRM, along with numerous student competitions. He was President of the Northwest Human Resource Management Association (NHRMA) in 2000, Director of OregonSHRM in 2009, and currently serves on the Boards of PHRMA and NHRMA.

    His personal mission is to help individuals increase their leadership skills and improve the functioning of their work teams.  He helps people find passion in their work life environment, leading to greater individual engagement and satisfaction, and increased organization productivity. His multigenerational family includes two grandsons and one granddaughter. In his spare time he gardens, teaches and travels the world with his wife and partner Jean Benevento, and, after recent open heart surgery, remains physically active.