To subscribe: http://www.ksmartin.com/subscribe To learn about Karen's books and products, please visit: http://www.ksmartin.com/books-products/. These are the slides from my talk at the SHRM Annual Conference on June 26, 2012 in Atlanta, GA. Operational excellence is impossible to achieve without a highly engaged workforce. But what does employee engagement *really* mean and what's HR's role in creating it? In this session, you will learn how to leverage the growing marriage of people and process, what type of development today's employees need, and how to help your leaders give the frontlines greater control over their work, which produces significant boosts to both engagement scores and your company's bottom line.