Course detail: Recruiting and Retention 2-Day Seminar

Course Description: 

Struggling with recruitment and retention? This workshop is designed to provide actionable solutions to enhance your agency's ability to recruit, hire, train, and retain top talent.

Over the course of two days, participants will explore more than 100 innovative ideas tailored to improving recruitment and retention efforts. The workshop will include discussions on generational differences and their impact on workforce dynamics, offering strategies to align these insights with your organization's hiring practices.

Attendees will actively collaborate to create a customized plan for their agency, outlining actionable steps, assigned responsibilities, and timelines to implement recruiting and retention strategies effectively. Agencies are encouraged to send a decision-maker and a team member responsible for these efforts to maximize workshop outcomes.

Core Competencies: 
  • Managing Self - Participants will harness one's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve goals and aspirations. 
  • Leading People - Participants will lead and engage people to maximize organizational performance. 
  • Leading Organizations - Participants will appraise and adopt the duties and behaviors incumbent upon a law enforcement leader who acts in ways that support the needs of their organization, community, and profession. 
Objectives:
  • Understand how generational differences influence workplace dynamics and improve collaboration among team members.
  • Explore and apply over 100 creative and practical ideas to enhance recruitment, hiring, training, and retention practices.
  • Develop a detailed recruitment and retention plan tailored to the needs of your agency, complete with actionable steps, assigned roles, and a timeline.
Instructional Methods: 
  • Interactive Lecture: Gain insights through engaging presentations and discussions.
  • Applied Learning Exercises: Practice and refine strategies for immediate application.
  • Small Group Discussions: Share perspectives and learn collaboratively.
Who Should Attend: 
  • Aspiring leaders and Informal leaders
  • First-Line leadership
  • Mid-Level leadership
  • Executive leadership
Course Requirements: 
  • 100% Attendance and Participation 
Fitness Requirements and Expectation of Physical Risk: Sedentary

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend University of Kansas sponsored events. If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in an event, please email CPSL or call 620.694.1401 at least three weeks before the first day of the event. Some events may require notice earlier than three weeks and require you contact a specific individual; if so, that information is provided in the event-specific information.

Notice of Availability of the KLETC Annual Security and Fire Safety Report:

The University of Kansas has determined that the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) main campus in Hutchinson and its regional sites in Dodge City, Hays, and Parsons are separate campuses. This determination was made in consultation with the Department of Education. The report is available online t: https://civilrights.ku.edu/clery.

The report contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); fire safety policies and procedures; programs to prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking; the procedures the institution will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred On-Campus; in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities; in Non-Campus buildings or property owned or controlled by the institution or a recognized student organization; and on Public Property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus. The report also contains fire statistics for any fires occurring in an On-Campus Student Housing Facility during the three most recent calendar years.

 A paper copy of the report will be provided upon request. If you would like to receive a paper copy, you can request that a copy be mailed to you by calling 785-864-6414 or emailing civilrights@ku.edu or arrange for pick-up at a KLETC location.

Fitness level: Fitness Requirements and Expectation of Physical Risk: Sedentary

 Session Information: SL26007F

Schedule: Every day, starting on 05/14/25 and ending on 05/15/25
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Times: 08:00am-05:00pm CDT
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Registration Fee : $100.00

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Participants are responsible for their own snacks, drinks, meals, lodging and travel. Please dress in layers, as the temperature in the room may be difficult to adjust. The session begins at 8:00AM and is estimated to end at 5:00PM. On-site registration will begin at 7:30AM.

Instructors

Name Additional Resources
Brenda Dietzman

Facility Detail

Lenexa Police Department
17371 Prairie Star Pkwy
Lenexa, KS 66219

Cancellation Policy

A refund less a $25.00 cancellation fee will be assessed for all cancellations made in writing prior to 10 days before the start of the event. After that time, no refunds will be made.