Best Practices for Balancing Recognition & Discipline to Achieve Great Employee Performance

This webinar will feature employee engagement experts, labor relations professionals, and national labor partners to discuss best practices for employee engagement, discipline, and performance.

Panel will discuss:

• Best practices for managing the disciplinary & progressive disciplinary processes
• The Voice of Labor - What's the why and underlying reasons for discipline? What have you observed that works for staff to succeed? How do you work with management to re-engage and revise, to address a trend of discipline?
• Example from organizations – What to do when your employee has abilities/disabilities.  i.e. increasing leave time; traumatic incident response to allow paid leave at management discretion
• How to shift the focus to the work, performance, and rewarding what you want to see more of in your unit, department, organization.
• Employee recognition programs (i.e. awards, mentoring, job shadowing, social media feature, local media, etc.)

Moderators:

• Trish Collins, Chair, APTA Labor & Employee Relations Subcommittee, Director of Human Resources, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA), St. Petersburg, FL
• George F. Fields, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Vice Chair, APTA Labor & Employee Relations Subcommittee, HR Deputy General Manager, Greater Cleveland RTA
• Kelli Coughlin, Second Vice Chair, MTA Labor and Employee Relations Subcommittee, Senior Deputy Chief, Labor Relations – Railroad Operations, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), New York, NY

Panelists:

• Amanda Salmon, Civil Rights Compliance Officer (ADA), Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, UT
• Edward Valente, General Chairman & Executive Board Director, Association of Commuter Rail Employees (ACRE), Metro-North Railroad, New York, NY
• Ashley Mason, Manager, Employee Engagement, Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC)
• Wendy Hanks Tunstall, Bus Operator, ATU Local 1220, Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC)