Empowerment Through Resources: A New Approach to Employee Support

Session Description: How do you define poverty, and do you know how it effects your organization and people? This presentation outlines The Factory Ministries mission and explores the impact of being under-resourced in key areas—physical, emotional, spiritual, relational, financial, and intellectual. Join us as we examine how being under-resourced in one key area then affects the others, influences work performance, and ripples into challenges for HR and managers. Additionally, you’ll gain insights on the importance of relationally-driven benefits over traditional, underutilized EAPs.

Learning Objectives – As a result of this program, attendees will be able to:
1. Understand the importance and impact of personal resources in relationship to job performance and company productivity
2. Identify key areas (physical, emotional, spiritual, relational, financial, and intellectual) that are under-resourced for team members
3. Explore areas where HR and the company can address the needs of those on the team who are under-resourced
4. Explain the importance of having benefits that are designed with a relational foundation

Approved for 1.0 SHRM and HRCI credits
         

Speaker: Mike Lewis
Mike is the Workforce Advocacy Director at The Factory Ministries in Paradise, PA. The Factory is a hub connecting people to resources and aims to reduce poverty in Lancaster County by walking alongside the under-resourced, and empowering them with tools to rise above their circumstances. Specifically in the Workforce Advocacy area, he provides resources and support for employees and employers around the community through on-site relation building. Previously at The Factory, Mike served as an Adult Advocate, a program that assists adults and families with addressing basic needs, building community and friendship, and setting goals to work towards independence and a new future story.

Mike has nine years of teaching experience, including preaching sermons at church, and have delivering multiple presentations at The Factory. He has a degree in Elementary Education from Millersville University and a Master’s of Divinity from Liberty University.

Program Agenda:
7:00 am – Doors Open
7:15 – 7:30 am – Registration, Breakfast Available
7:30 – 7:45 am – Open Networking, Breakfast Available
7:45 – 8:00 am – LSHRM Chapter Updates
8:00 – 9:00 am – Educational Presentation

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