Daken Tanner, SPHR

Vice President of Human Resources, Eagle Gate College Group

“A Positive Approach to Performance Management“

For years, organizations have used a fairly standardized procedure to handle employee problems such as absenteeism, poor performance, and other misconduct.  This approach, usually called “progressive discipline,” provides for increasingly serious steps or penalties- reprimands, warnings, suspensions without pay- when an employee does not meet the organizations expectations.  But today, a growing number of companies are moving away from approaches that focus exclusively on punishment.  Instead, they are adopting an approach of accountability – employees with unfavorable performance, conduct or attendance issues are required to take personal responsibility for their choice of behavior.

Positive Discipline by Performance Systems Corporation, is an effective approach to performance management based on the works of Alfred Alder.  This session will help HR professionals implement a different type of performance leadership that reinforces the organizations core values and expectations where:

• Employees are and should be treated as responsible adults
• Recognition and coaching are generally most effective in building superior performance
• Both employees and leaders have specific responsibilities in the performance, values, behaviors, and success in an organization.

Biography

Daken S. Tanner, Vice President, Human Resources, has been with Eagle Gate College Group since January 2010.  Prior to that, he was with ATK as HR Director.  For a combined nine years, Daken was HR Director for Stock Building Supply, and prior to their being acquired by SBs, VP of HR for Anderson Lumber Company.  Daken came to to Utah in 1992 as Manager, Human Resources, for Franklin Quest, and was the Vice President of People Services of Franklin Covey Co. when he left.  Prior to Franklin, Daken was in Human Resources with various Shell Oil companies in California and Houston.

Daken, a native of Southern California, received both his Bachelor’s Degree (1983) and his M.B.A. (1985) from Brigham Young University.