62% of Generation Z anticipate challenges working with Baby Boomers and Generation X, and only 5% anticipate challenges working with Millennials. To ensure a cohesive cross-generational team, leaders need to understand and integrate Millennials and Generation Z.

Currently, Millennials make up the largest generation in the workforce and Gen Z is the fastest-growing generation in the workforce. While Millennials and Gen Z bring valuable skills, insights, and ambition to the workplace, they are often a source of tension among experienced workers and managers. This program provides tactical strategies to dramatically improve the managing, recruiting, engaging, and selling of your next-generation workforce.

In this presentation, you will learn: 
•    Insights into Millennial and Gen Z employee values, behaviors, motivators, and expectations 
•    Perspectives of the key workplace and leadership preferences of the emerging generations
•    Strategies that are proven and actionable to lead, retain, recruit, and engage the emerging generations
•    Techniques for communicating and connecting with Millennials and Gen Z 

This is your designated one-on-one time with AEU Claims Staff.  We will also have Claims materials and other personnel at the greeting table;  take some catch-up time or attend another breakout group outside of your designated meeting time. Those people registered for this session will receive an individual meeting invitation.

While much of the world was put on hold due to the pandemic, the maritime industry continues to push forward – and AEU is no different. In this session, Adele Hapworth, CEO of AEU, will share the numerous innovations and initiatives rolled out by AEU throughout 2020 and 2021. 

In this presentation, you will learn about: 
•    New software tools at your disposal for managing claims and tracking safety incidents 
•    Enhancements to our claims handling process and medical management approach
•    Our 2021 Safety Award winners and what it takes to receive this honor 

With the skilled workforce aging, fewer new entrants into trades fields and the on-the-job training (OJT) requirements of the current workforce, skilled trades employers are faced with increasingly severe talent development challenges. The way we have approached OJT in the past will not get us to where we need to be for the future of work. During this session, Rebecca Peredo will tackle the big labor challenges and illustrate how embracing technology can help operations leaders effectively manage their skills gaps using real case studies from Stanley Black and Decker.

In this presentation, you will learn:
•      The hidden costs of poor training
•      Finding productivity gains in unexpected places
•      How better technology can help companies find, train and retain top talent

Situational awareness is knowing what is going on around you and determining whether any health and safety threats exist. A lack of situational awareness is a major contributor to workplace incidents and AEU's LOOK program can help employees enhance their situational awareness by performing a few simple exercises and training their sensory and information processing skills.

LOOK is a situational awareness program from AEU designed to help maritime employers create the safest possible work environment for their employees.

In this presentation, you will learn:
•    The four core elements of situational awareness: listen, observe, orient, and know
•    How the training exercises in the LOOK program help workers understand their immediate environment and enable them to make decisions that keep them safe

Tool-related incidents are a significant cause of injury in today’s maritime environment. But with the proper tool, appropriate safety measures, and adequate training, these incidents can largely be avoided. In this session, we’ll discuss how to prevent tool-related incidents and what to look for as you conduct your regular safety inspections.  

In this presentation, youwill learn: 
•    Top risk factors to consider when building a tool safety plan 
•    How to create and stick to a plan that helps keep employees safe 
 

Employment law expert Jennifer Kogos will discuss considerations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) before, during, and after a workers’ compensation claim.

In this presentation, you will learn: 
•    Pitfalls to avoid when making employment decisions 
•    How to differentiate between workers’ compensation decisions and required employment law protections 
•    Employees’ rights in the workplace surrounding medical issues

We thought we lived in a fast-paced technological age three years ago, but much of our employee development was still following traditional models. We’re now in a world rife with staffing shortages and supply chain backups - all while having advanced technology at our fingertips. We must take a new approach to employee training and development with that in mind. 

Today’s workplaces are moving at a pace unlike ever before, and managers often struggle to find the time to schedule traditional in-person training. To stay informed and offer training for employees, managers need to be nimble and find ways to provide learning opportunities that limit time away from the job site and employ adult-based learning methodologies.

Following this presentation, you will learn: 
•    The importance of adapting to new forms of training and development 
•    New types of learning technologies of which you should be aware 
•    Training and development opportunities available through AEU LEAD

Join us at Fulton Alley for dinner and bowling. 

Whether you are working your way up the corporate ladder, making your value known to an existing audience, or looking to enhance your impact, the key to remaining viable and competitive is to boost your leadership brand.  
 
Your leadership brand is the synthesis of several key components including visuals, messaging, demeanor, interpersonal skills and more. When these pieces come together, they create the whole picture that determines how the rest of the world views you - for better or worse. By deliberately managing and improving your brand, you can dramatically elevate your ability to impact and influence. To interact and collaborate. To train and mentor. To achieve and succeed. All of it comes back to making intentional choices about your leadership brand.

Following this presentation, you will learn:
•    The brand anchors that most accelerate or derail your career
•    Key areas that provide the greatest opportunities for growth and development
•    How to use feedback as a measure of business reputation and as an ongoing tool for career success
•    Aligning your desired brand with how others experience you
•    The importance of demonstrating your value beyond the technical and functional
 

One of the keys to success in changing, uncertain times is to live a culture of inspired leadership in order to maintain engagement of a multigenerational workforce, while persuading team members to take personal responsibility for their actions, behaviors and safety on a daily basis.  

In this presentation, you will learn:
•    Why organizational leadership culture must be lived and demonstrated in order to gain trust, respect, cooperation and compliance from the workforce
•    That respected culture leaders and effective communicators can inspire team members to do things that they didn’t think they could do or want to do
•    How leadership always drives culture and why they are both the message and the messenger
•    The importance of understanding, listening to and communicating with a diverse multigenerational workforce in order to persuade everyone to work safely and live a culture of personal responsibility

It can be frustrating when we are moving forward with a claim, focusing on worker wellness and seeking the best outcome post-injury, and then boom: a Letter of Representation is received! What happens when the worker is non-compliant or obtains plaintiff counsel? This multi-disciplinary panel will share their successes and lessons learned with audience.

In this presentation, you will learn:
•    The effect that representation has on a claim
•    Why a claimant often gains representation 
•    Ways to avoid attorney involvement (where possible)

By studying the past, we can better prevent repeating the same mistakes in the future. The same is true of workplace incidents.

Jim Wiethorn, a published author on the subject of crane incidents, will present his findings on the top causes and trends over the last 30 years and identify ways to use this data to prevent incidents in the future better.

In this presentation, you will learn:
•    The top causes of maritime crane incidents
•    What steps we can take to minimize the risk of those incidents

Get the safety and health help you’ve already paid for!  Every year, thousands of companies across the U.S. are taking advantage of free, on-site, professional services available through their state universities and other organizations to help them successfully meet Federal and State OSHA regulations. 

In this presentation, you will learn:
•    How the OSHA-funded 21(d) on-site consultation program can be a total game-changer for your safety and health future
•    How small to mid-size companies can set up confidential visits from consultants specially trained to conduct OSHA-style safety and health site assessments
•    How injuries are depleting your bottom line and how consultation will help you to regain control over your losses
•    How a typical 21(d) on-site consultation works – start to finish
•    The Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP)
•    The range of free technical and management services you can take advantage of – all for free 

Hiring and keeping today’s workforce can be costly and difficult to maintain. Companies that employ an occupational health partner can see significant cost savings and a healthier workforce. This is done through improving the accuracy of the hiring process by health screenings as well as a drug and alcohol screening program. When unfortunate injuries do occur, a knowledgeable partner in workplace medicine can help provide appropriate medical care, navigate regulatory issues, control costs and return an employee to work safely and sooner than mainstream providers after an injury. This holistic approach in helping manage your workforce will pay dividends in the long run.

In this presentation, you will learn:
•    Which hiring process improvements can help mitigate incidents before they happen 
•    How an occupational health partner can result in better-controlled claims costs and employees who return to work more quickly 

The ability to have one-on-one communication skills are crucial to building and sustaining a culture of high performance, professional and personal development, talent retention, and engagement. 

In this presentation, you will learn:
•    How to identify optimal opportunities for giving and receiving feedback and crucial one-on-one messaging
•    Three deceptively simple yet profound principles of powerful one-on-one communication that are proven to yield results