As the leading global authority on education, certification, research, standards, advocacy, and community awareness for the residential technology industry, CEDIA strives to provide educational resources aimed at enhancing their overall capacity to attract, develop, and retain skilled talent.

CEDIA Training

• Innovative Strategies to Attract and Retain Talent - This webinar provides innovative methods for talent attraction and recruitment as well as best practices for the development and retention of skilled talent. This webinar was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and includes a discussion on short-term and long-term changes in strategy for talent attraction, retention, development, promotion, and retention associated with COVID-19.
• Employees 101: The Employee Life Cycle - This webinar will provide you with a framework to improve hiring, firing, and managing employees in your organization.
• AVIXA, CEDIA, AV Magazine, ISE - Recruiting New Talent - The AV industry's future prosperity depends on attracting talented people. This session will present research highlighting the scale of the issue, and showcase ways in which AV companies can engage with schools, military veterans and workforce agencies to build more pipelines into AV jobs.
• The 5 Keys to Teamwork and Trust - This webinar will provide a strategic framework for giving employees enough autonomy to become real stakeholders in a firm’s success.
• Discipline to Termination: 5 Steps to Doing It Right! – This webinar will walk owners and managers through the thorniest issues they will likely face.
• Virtual Leadership and Employee Engagement – This webinar will teach you how to align employees with the organization’s direction and priorities, set clear performance expectations, and build trusting relationships among teams

General Training Resources

• Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is world’s largest HR professional society, representing 300,000 members in more than 165 countries.

• Association for Talent Development (ATD) is an association for professionals who help others achieve their full potential by improving their knowledge, skills, and abilities in the workplace, representing members in more than 120 countries.

Articles of Interest

        Attraction and Retention

• 5 Ways to Compete for Top Talent and Engage Employees
• How to Attract and Keep the Best Employees - Offer the Benefits and Experiences They Value Most
• Why Millennials Keep Dumping You: An Open Letter to Management
• New-Collar Workers- Who Are They And How Are They Contributing To Our Labor Shortage?
• Interview Questions for AV Technician Candidates
• Taking The AV Industry’s Temperature: What’s Hiring Like Right Now at Tech Integration Firms?
  
  Training and Development
  
  
• Why the employer-as-educator will be essential to training tomorrow’s workforce
• Upskilling Must Evolve for Entrepreneurs to Succeed
• They’re Coming: Rethinking Training and Development for Generation Z
  
  Skilled Trades Labor Shortages
  
  
• After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople
• High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University
• The future of work won't be about college degrees, it will be about job skills
  
  Diversity and Inclusion

• AV workforce development and diversity
  
  Layoffs and Furloughs

• How to Decide Whether to Furlough or Lay Off Employees
• Nurturing the Furloughed

• A Bad Boss can Destroy Everything!
• 3 Integrators Explain How They Keep AV Technician Teams Working Efficiently

Other Resources

• Brigette Hyacinth is an author and international keynote speaker on Leadership, Management, HR, Social Media Marketing & Influencing, Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence.

• Oleg Vishnpolsky, Global CTO at DailyMail Online and Metro.Co.UK, provides insightful articles and posts on leadership, talent attraction, and employee retention.